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The history of Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. Colonial times. Feake-Ferris House, circa 1645-1689, likely the first and oldest house in Greenwich. Pastures, Greenwich, Connecticut (about 1890–1900) by artist John Henry Twachtman.
The town of Greenwich was settled in 1640, by the agents Robert Feake and Captain Daniel Patrick, for Gov. Theophilus Eaton of New Haven Colony, who purchased the land from the Siwanoy Indians in exchange of 25 English coats.
The town of Greenwich, located in Fairfield County, is at the southernmost and westernmost tip of Connecticut—between Stamford and New York City. In 1640, founding families purchased the land in the area now known as Old Greenwich from Native Americans for twenty-five coats.
Feb 21, 2015 · After trading with Indian sachems on a summer day in 1640 for permission to inhabit the land that would become Greenwich, the colonists founded a settlement that would rise in the borderland...
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Sep 18, 2023 · First (European) settlers and early history of Greenwich, CT. The European settlers who first purchased land in Greenwich came from Massachusetts. In 1640 Daniel Patrick and Robert Feake purchased land between the Asamuck and Patomuck rivers, the first land inhabited by Europeans in the area.
The earliest known settler in Byram, Thomas Lyon, was originally from Stamford, Connecticut. He married Martha Winthrop who had emigrated to the New World from England as a child with her mother, Elizabeth Winthrop Feake, one of the founders of Greenwich in 1640.
From 1642 to 1650, the settlement of Greenwich was officially part of the Dutch colony New Netherland. In 1650, the colony of New Haven and the Dutch agreed to boundary lines and once again, the small town of Greenwich reverted back to control by the New Haven Colony.
