Paugusset, Golden Hill

An Act Authorizing the Sale of Indian Lands

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened

This certifies that Hannah Rushick has no property with the rest of the Indians in Derby.

Selectmen

This may certify that Hannah Rushick was not an inhabitant of Milford but was strolling from place to place and had no property in Milford with the Indians that belong to Milford.

Committee for Indians of Milford,

We certify that we have no 1 knowledge or remembrance that Hannah Rushick, a squaw, was ever possessed of any property in this town or ever2 resided therein or that she is an inhabitant of Branford.

These certify that the subscriber has not found in any of the Indians, paupers, or deeds of the Indians at Golden Hill that any of the Rushick family were of the tribe of the Indian families in Stratford and that, as guardian for about seventeen years to the Indians, he has not heard of such a person as Hannah Rushick until the present date, therefore she must not be of the tribe of the Golden Indians.

Upon the petition of Abijah B.

Resolved by this Assembly that Elijah  Burritt be appointed agent and guardian of the Golden Hill Indians in the room of Josiah Lacey resigned and that he1 give bonds to the Court of Probate for the District of Fairfield for the faithful discharge of his trust in the same manner as heretofore given by said Lacey.

To the Honorable General Assembly of the State of Connecticut Now in Session