[J. Thomas Scharf (1886)] 3 Ruttenbeer, " North Rivur Indians," p. 81. 4 Ruttenbeer, p. 81. ii.— ro\\ CASTLE. G29 youth to expect only when he had reached the happy hunting-ground of the future. It was the liberty of a beautiful spot that the old Indian sachem Ponus had reserved for "his and the rest of the said Indians to plant on." Sixty years after Bonus had made his sale to Stam-ford, his descendants sold even that which the old sagamore had reserved. The same tide of immigra-tion that bad crowded them into the hill country was now crowding them out. The lakes, the hills and the valleys, with their fields and villages, passed into the possession of the white man, while the Indian, with little to show for his trading, built his last wigwam among the tall grasses that grew on the borders of Tamarack Swamp. The lands included in the present town were finally conveyed to the white men substantially in three tracts. First : the part of the town lying west of the Byram River, which was included in Heath-cote's great purchase of October 19, 1696, known after-ward as the West Patent.5 Second: the eastern part of the town lying between the north and south courses of the Mahanas, or Mia-