Cherry

The son of Raumaoug, Cherry (Tscherry), alias Waquaheag, was a proprietor of Tunxis land at Farmington and Simsbury, Connecticut.  In 1657, he was suspected of setting fire to the house of Sergeant John Hart, killing the Hart family, in the Mesapano affair. Cherry was a signatory on a May 22, 1673 deed from the Tunxis to the English confirming former agreements and settling bounds of the plantation of Farmington.  Some years later, he and several other Indians of Milford were arrested for stealing cider.  In 1682, he and a companion were sold liquor which led to the death of another person for which the companion was charged for murder.  Cherry was dead by December 1695, when his grandson and heir litigated rights to two and a quarter acres of Cherry’s land. 

 

Helen Schatvet Ullmann, Hartford County, Connecticut, County Court Minutes, Vols. 3 and 4 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogy Society, 2005), 322.  Helen Schatvet Ullman, Colony of Connecticut, Minutes of the Court of Assistants, 1669-1711 (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009), 9.  PRCC 1:294. Sources for this biography also come from the Related Digital Heritage Items listed below.