Duy [Dewey] ... on the east side of the Great River in breadth eighteen rods more or less, in length three miles". On January 5, 1641 Connecticut court ordered "that Captain Mason shall have of ground, for him and his heirs, about Pequot Country, and the dispose of 500 more acres to such soldiers as joined with him in the service when they conquered the Indians there". On July 12, 1644 John Mason of Windsor sold to William Hosford of Windsor in a little meadow with addition of swamp. On September 11, 1651 "the island commonly called Chippachauge in Mistick Bay is given to Capt. John Mason, and also of upland and of meadow near Mistick, where he shall make choice". Henceforth, this island became known as Mason's Island, situated at the mouth of the Mystic River in Stonington, Connecticut. It was owned by the Mason family from 1651 to 1913. On March 14, 1660 the "jurisdiction power over that land that Uncas and Wawequa have made over to Major Mason is by him surrendered to this Colony. Nevertheless for the laying out of those lands to farms or plantations the Court doth leave it in the hands of Major Mason. It is also ordered and provided with the consent of Major Mason, that Uncus & Wawequa and their Indians and successors shall be supplied with sufficient planting ground at all times as the Court sees cause out of that land. And the Major doth reserve for himself a competence of land sufficient to make a farm". On May 14, 1663 the court granted "unto the Major, our worshipful Deputy Governor, of land for a farm, where he shall choose it, if it may not be prejudicial to a plantation already set up or to set up, so there be not above of meadow in it". On 13 October 1664, the "Major propounding to the Court to take up his former grant of a farm, at a place by the Indians called Pomakuck, near Norwich, the Court grants liberty to him to take up his former grant in that place, upon the same terms as it was granted to him by the Court". On May 20, 1668 the "Major desiring this Court to grant him a farm" of about , for "one of his sons, his desire is hereby granted (provided there be not above of meadow) and Lt. Griswold