Stamford – Freeport History Timeline ../../../index.html A research project focused on the combination of different open source technologies as a way to preserve and present historical data Fri, 15 Jan 2021 18:52:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.8 Captain Nathaniel Turner of the New Haven Colony negotiates a deed for Stamford with Toquams and Shippan ../../../captain-nathaniel-turner-of-the-new-haven-colony-negotiates-a-deed-for-stamford-with-toquams-and-shippan/ ../../../captain-nathaniel-turner-of-the-new-haven-colony-negotiates-a-deed-for-stamford-with-toquams-and-shippan/#respond Mon, 17 Mar 2014 03:41:59 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=2870 – Called Rippowam by the native inhabitants

– Presently Stamford Connecticut

– Purchased for 12 coats, 12 hoes, 12 ratchets, 12 glasses, 12 knives, four kettles, and four fathoms of white wampum

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]]> ../../../29-puritan-families-leave-wethersfield-to-settle-stamford/feed/ 0 John Carman crosses the Long Island Sound with the first thirty-plus families from Stamford to settle Hempstead ../../../john-carman-crosses-the-long-island-sound-with-the-first-thirty-plus-families-from-stamford-connecticut-to-settle-hempstead/ ../../../john-carman-crosses-the-long-island-sound-with-the-first-thirty-plus-families-from-stamford-connecticut-to-settle-hempstead/#respond Tue, 24 Jul 2012 21:47:24 +0000 http://freeporthistory.com/?p=499 c Spring 1644

(conflict: 17 families by certain accounts)

– the first English settlement in what is presently Nassau County

– prominent families Denton, Raynor, Pettit, Wood, Smith, Thompson and Hicks are included

– Stamford, Connecticut 

– Hempstead, North Hempstead

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