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Deposition of Eunice Mossuck Regarding Sarah Wampey

Eunice Mossock, one of the Indian Natives, deposeth and says1 she was well acquainted with Sarah Wampey, late of Farmington, an Indian squaw now deceased, and that the said Sarah always told this deponent that she came from Poquannock at or near Stratford, and that the mother of said Sarah was frequently at Farmington with her daughter, the said Sarah, and a nu

Tribes

Pequonnock (Fairfield)

Pootatuck

Schaghticoke

Tunxis

Appointment of Lewis Sturgess and Others as a Committee to Examine the Accounts of Aaron Hawley Guardian to the Golden Hill Indians

At a General Assembly of the State of Connecticut Holden at New Haven on the Second Thursday of October AD 17971

Tribes

Paugusset, Golden Hill

Pequonnock (Fairfield)

Chops, John II, 1756 - 1818

John Chops II was the son of John Chops (Paugussett) and Sarah Shoran (Pequannock) of the Golden Hill Community. He had at least one child, a son named Adonijah. Like his father John, Sr., Chops served in the military: 1778 First Battalion, Bradley's Connecticut Regiment (1778), 5th Battalion (1778-1780), Connecticut 2nd Brigade (1783), Swift and Dobbin's Regiment of New York Volunteers (1814). At the end of his life, at least, Chops lived upon a rising that later was known as "Chopsey Hil

Chops, Adonijah

Sherman, Ann

Ann Sherman (1756-after 1825) was a daughter of Tom Sherman, Sr. (Pootatuck) and Eunice Shoran (Pequannock) of the Golden Hill Community in Stratford, Connecticut. She had three daughters, Dolly (b. 1793), Eunice (d. 1808 in Danbury), and Harriet (b. 1791).

Sherman, Tabitha

Tabitha Sherman (d. 1807)was a daughter of Tom Sherman (Pootatuck) and Eunice Shoran (Pequannock) of the Golden Hill Community in Stratford, Connecticut. She had two daughters and possibly a son. Not much is known about her. Tabitha and other family members petitioned for her father's land to be sold in 1802. Unlike her sisters Eunice and Sarah, Tabitha remained at Golden Hill after the sale. Summary under the Criteria (Golden Hill Paugussett, 2003), 33, 137.

Sherman, Sarah

Sarah Sherman was a daughter of Tom Sherman, Sr.

Sherman, Eunice II, - 1841

Eunice Sherman (d. 1841) was a daughter of Tom Sherman, Sr. (Pootatuck) and Eunice Shoran (Pequannock) of the Golden Hill Community in Stratford, Connecticut. She married a man from Kent named Mack and had several children: Jim, Garry and Eunice. In exchange for one-fifth of the tribal fund after the sale of the Golden Hill property in March 1803, she and her children withdrew their interest in tribal land claims.