Truman Bradley or Truman Mauwee (c. 1826–1900) was a
Schaghticoke Native American
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who lived in the village of
Nichols in
Trumbull, Connecticut
Trumbull is a New England town, town located in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. The town is part of the Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut, Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, and borders on the cities of Bridgeport, Co ...
.
He was a descendant of Gideon Mauwee, the first Schaghticoke Sachem. Bradley moved to Nichols in 1840 and was a contemporary with William Sherman, Chief of the
Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation
The Golden Hill Paugussett is a state-recognized Native American tribe in Connecticut. Granted reservations in a number of towns in the 17th century, their land base was whittled away until they were forced to reacquire a small amount of territor ...
, who lived in the village of Nichols Farms at the Golden Hill Reservation in the mid-19th century.
Bradley married Julia M. Kilson in March 1846, and together they had three daughters. The Bradleys are buried in the Nichols Farm's Burial Ground. Bradley is believed to have lived in the
Ephraim Hawley House
The Ephraim Hawley House is a privately owned Colonial American wooden Timber framing, post-and-beam timber-frame saltbox house situated on the ''Farm Highway'', Connecticut Route 108, Route 108, on the south side of ''Mischa Hill'', in Nichols, ...
as early as 1840, working the farm for the widow Sarah Hawley-Nichols after her second husband Isaac Nichols died. Bradley purchased the house in 1881 from Charles Fairchild. At the time, the property was called the Sarah Hawley homestead. Bradley renovated the house in the
colonial revival
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The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the arch ...
architectural style in 1881, turning it into a two family home, before selling it to Clarissa Curtiss in 1882.
[Trumbull Land Records Vol. 12, p. 126]
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Ephraim Hawley House
The Ephraim Hawley House is a privately owned Colonial American wooden Timber framing, post-and-beam timber-frame saltbox house situated on the ''Farm Highway'', Connecticut Route 108, Route 108, on the south side of ''Mischa Hill'', in Nichols, ...
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Schaghticoke tribe
The Schaghticoke ( or ) are a Native American tribe of the Eastern Woodlands who historically consisted of Mahican, Potatuck, Weantinock, Tunxis, Podunk, and their descendants, peoples Indigenous to what is now New York, Connecticut, and Ma ...
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Trudie Lamb-Richmond
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History of Trumbull, Connecticut
References
*Reverend Samuel Orcutt, ''History of the Old Town of Stratford, Connecticut'', Fairfield Historical Society, 1886
*Charles Brilvitch, ''A History of Connecticut's Golden Hill Paugussett Tribe'', The History Press, 2007
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Schaghticoke Tribal Nation
People from Trumbull, Connecticut
19th-century Native American people
Trumbull, Connecticut
1820s births
Year of birth uncertain
1900 deaths
Schaghticoke tribe
Members of state-recognized tribes in the United States
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