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The history of Greenwich, Connecticut. ==Colonial times== On July 18, 1640, Daniel Patrick and Robert Feake, jointly purchased the land between the Asamuck and Patommuck brooks, in the area now known as Old Greenwich, from Wiechquaesqueek Munsees living there for "twentie-five coates."〔() These first 13 European homesteaders included their wives Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake and Anna Van Beyeren, their children and Robert's niece and nephew Tobias and Judith Feake. Greenwich history page at Rootsweb Web site〕 What is now called "Greenwich Point" was natively called Monakeywaygo. Elizabeth Feake renamed the point, her personal purchase, "Elizabeth's Neck." In the 1900s it was renamed Tod's Point and it is now officially called Greenwich Point.〔http://www.friendsofgreenwichpoint.org/page2.php〕 The Dutch, based in Fort Amsterdam on the southern tip of Manhattan sent armed soldiers to the Feakes and Patricks a few weeks after their arrival and forced them to acknowledge that their land lay within Dutch jurisdiction - a territory of the West India Company that was called New Netherland. Desiring protection from locally outraged and violent Munsees and not protected by the New Haven Colony, the early settlers agreed. Thus, Greenwich was renamed Groenwits by the Dutch, to communicate its Dutch sovereignty, and it importantly became the defended eastern border between New Netherland and New England. The small creek that flows to Tomac Cove marks this boundary. For its first 16 years, Greenwich was Dutch property. Within weeks of his arrival, one of Dutch Director Peter Stuyvesant's first actions was to strengthen his claim to the area to prevent large English colonies from establishing themselves closer to the Dutch on Manhattan. He purchased and received title from the Munsee named Seyseychimmus, to all the land between the west bank of the Mianus River and Stamford's Mill River, (natively called the Seweyruc), and confiscated the Feake/Patrick property in the process. Angered by this, Stamford men, who answered to the New Haven Colony, demanded renegotiation of the border between New Netherland and New England. In 1650, The Treaty of Hartford terms weakened Dutch control. Treaty terms, negotiated by Peter Stuyvesant and men from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, dictated that while the Dutch would continue to own the land of Groenwits, they would treat inhabitants there as jurisdictional neutrals. (This language was related to the plight of Elizabeth Fones Winthrop Feake Hallett, a niece, daughter-in-law and ward of Gov. John Winthrop, and her legal, matrimonial, political and land title disputes. She was a politically charged figure in English inter-colony squabbling). Further, this treaty prevented the Dutch from establishing any more homesteads within 6 miles of the west bank of the Mianus River. (This river was natively called the "Kechkawes" and called "Greenwich Bay" by the English). Eroding jurisdictional oversight of Greenwich inhabitants resulted in early Greenwich farmers who "live in a disorderly and riotous manner, sell intoxicating liquors to the Indians, receive and harbor servants who have fled their masters, and join persons unlawfully in marriage." There were also cases of runaway Dutch Manhattan teenagers coming to Greenwich to be wed by a farmer there, (likely Andrew Crabb), who dispensed with the publication of pre-wedding banns, or advance public notification. In 1656, when Dutch power had significantly declined, the New Haven Colony did exert jurisdiction over Greenwich and considered it a part of Stamford. With the fall of New Netherland to the English in 1664, the General Assembly in Hartford declared Greenwich a separate township from Stamford.〔 In 1672, "27 Proprietors" divided up lands west of the Mianus River, and this property may have been a large part of the Stuyvesant confiscation. This tract was called "Horseneck" because of the neck of land (now known as Field Point) was a common horse pasture. It was natively called "Paihomsing." Official title to these parcels didn't occur until 1686.〔 Even after Greenwich became a town, the area was known as "Horseneck" at least as late as about 1800, with several travelers through town using the name.〔''Darien: 1641-1820-1970: Historical Sketches,'' published by the Darien Historical Society, 1970; Chapter: "The Eighteenth Century Tourist in Fairfield County," by Louise H. McLean, pp. 49-61〕 The town supplied locally grown produce to packet boats to New York City starting in colonial times.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「History of Greenwich, Connecticut」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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