Category: Coni’s Stuff

Just got word today from Singer/Songwriter Glenda Luck- She has the Cd’s finally in her possession and is in the process of getting her website ready to take orders! She has a few ‘kinks’ to work out but should be available shortly! (Mine will be in the mail tomorrow – due to helping her I get a personal copy from her – so sweet – will be treasured!) This is a 3 year process for her and she is at the final stages! I have 2 speaking parts on this cd and I can’t wait for you all to hear the “Samuel Chagum” song (not sure how she spelt it but a tribute to a ancestor of mine~

Update 6/20/14 Got CD in and it is AWESOME!

We still uncertain if Great James or Samell Chagum is father to our James Chagum 

“Coppyes out of the originall this 11th Janry 1693 P me J. Raymond Recorder
Bk l- 233: This Indenture made the ninth day of November in the year of our lord 1690 Between trugo an Ingen boy (someone has written here “poss 7 yrs 9 mo”) sonn of Quepeg deceased formerly belonging to blockisland In the Colliny of Roadisland & province plantations on the one part & Joshua Raymond of the same place yeoman on the other part wittneseth that the sayd trugo by & withe the Consent of his Brothers Richanrd & pettor & his siter Hannah hath put & by these presents doth firmly bind himself servant unto the sayd Joshua Raymond his Heires Executtors Administrattors of Assignes for 7 during the Whole terme or time of thirtene  full yeares & three monthes to Commenc & begine at the day of the date hereof & the sayd trugo doth hereby obleige himself his sayd marsters house or service without his Leave until the sd thriten yeares & three monthes be fully Eanded but in all things shall bare & behave himself as becometh a good & faythfull servant towardes his sayd marster & all his during the aforesd time or terme altho not more herin Expresed In Considerattion wherof the sayd Joshua Raymond doth Covenant promise & Ingaudge for himself his Heires Executtors Administrattores & Assignes to find for and allow unto sayd trugo suffitient meat drink & apparell washing & Loging suttable for such a servant during the terme of thirtene yeares & three monthes & to give him toe suits of apparell when his time Is Expired & to pay or Cause to be payd to sayd trugo & his brothers & sister above named thirtene gallons of Rum & four Crucking Cloth Cottes or fourty shillings mony In manner as followeth viz one gallon of Rum yearly till six gallons be payd to his sayd Brothers or one Cote or ten shillings in the yeares 1691 and 1693 the Rest to be payd to the sayd trugo when his time is outt In witness hereof we have hereunto sett our hands & seales the day & year above written & in the second year of the Reigne of their maiesteys King William & Quene Mary
Wittnesed
James ( X )Chogums         Richards  (X)
sam Chogums (X)                Petter   ( X)
toby (X)                                    Trugo   ( X)
Jabins (X)                                Hannah ( X)
J Raymond
The above written Indenture Is a true Copy of the originall Indenture Extractted January 18th 1692 P me J Raymond Recorder

From the Book: A History of Block Island From it’s discovery in 1514 and it’s present time 1876  By: Rev. S. T. LIVERMORE, A. M
Page 63-64 -DISAPPEARING: The disappearing of the Indians from Block Island was rapid and easily explained. Up to the year 1700 they numbered about 300. As these were mentioned by Niles in contrast with the sixteen men and a boy who challenged them to an open field-fight, it may be inferred that they were men, warriors. If this inference be correct then we may put down their original number, at the time of settlement by the English in 1662 to be nearly 1000, including the women and children. From a “Memorandum of Block Island, or Manisses, A. D. 1762, by Dr. Stiles,” we learn to how small a number they had dwindled during the first century of occupancy of the Island by the English. He says that in 1756 there were “few Indians, but no wigwams.” From the same volume in which this statement is contained we learn that in 1774 the Indians of Block Island were reduced to fifty-one. Their disappearance from the Island may be attributed mainly to three causes; First, the loss of their lands ; secondly, their subjugation to slavery, and thirdly, the need of them by Ninicraft, their chief, on the main-land. As instances of their running away it is sufficient to refer to the six who left Mr. Thomas Terry  to Chagum, after whom Chagum Pond is supposed to have been named, who ran away with a canoe, was recaptured, and re-enslaved. (See Chagum Pond.) That they were not exterminated by wars is certain, for we have no account of any killing of Indians on Block Island after Col. Endicott’s expedition against the Manisseans in 1636. A single remnant of the old aboriginal stock is living on the Island.
Page 160 – Chagum Pond: This name is commonly pronounced Shawgum, and is probably taken from an Indian. We have a record of one Samuel Chagum, who distinguished himself here in 1711 by stealing a canoe, running away from his master, losing the canoe, and suffering the penalty from the wardens of six months added to his former period of servitude. The pond lies between the Great Pond and Sandy Point, and is about as large as a tenth part of the latter pond. It is fresh, and supported from the sea, separated from it the proper distance for filtering the sea-water. In the great gale of 1815, the sea waves were so high as to pass over into Chagum Pond, the only time of which we have an account of such an occurrence.

BERMUDA OF THE NORTH – LIVERMORE’S lllustrated Latest Edition Brought down to date, revised & edited BY CHAS. E. PERRY – 25 cents
CHAGUM POND: This is next in size to the Great Pond. Its name is commonly pronounced Shawgum, and it probably originated from an Indian who lived on the Island in 1711, was then a slave to some lordly master, stole a boat, ran away, lost the boat, was captured, and was punished by the wardens by six months added to his former period of servitude. Part of the Pond is in Sandy Point. Its water is fresh and clear, and on its northerly side is separated by a narrow Isthmus from the sea, over which the sea has been known to break into the pond, as it did in the great gale of 1915, passing over so deep, so suddenly, and with such force as to carry a footman, Edward Gorton, then passing, into the pond where he was buried so deep in the sand as never to be recovered. This pond is visited by the Neck Road, which leads to the Sandy Point Light House located near this pond. End