Joshua Wills Land to Norwich Men

Joshua Wills Land to Norwich Men

Joshua, Sachem of the Mohegans, wills a tract of land that included most of modern Windham county to sixteen gentlemen from Norwich.

Ellen Douglas Larned, History of Windham County, Connecticut, Volume I: 1600-1760 (Worcester, MA: Charles Hamilton, 1874), 63-4.

1675-02-29

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See https://findit.library.yale.edu/yipp/catalog/digcoll:1018695 for "Joshua's Will." The placenames are outdated and the exact boundaries merit a closer examination. Public Records of the Colony of CT Vol. II, 291-2, gives the exact date of the will's execution as February 29, 1675. A footnote states that, "The division of this property, and the questionable title of the testator to the lands devised, gave rise to numerous law suits ; and frequent references will be found in the Records and State Files to the claims of " Joshua's legatees.""