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Roger Ludlow

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On February 26, 1640-1, Roger Ludlow, Deputy-Governor of the Colony of Connecticut, framer of its first Code of Laws, and founder of Norwalk, purchased from the aboriginal inhabitants all the lands, meadows, pasturinge, trees, whatsoever there is, and grounds between the two rivers called Norwalke and Soakatuck, to the middle of those rivers, from the sea a day's walk into the country.
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