Three documents attributed to Thomas Rose addressing Governor Joseph Talcott, the citizens of Groton, and the General Court. Rose advocated on behalf of the local Pequots to regain access to land set aside for them. A local man named Dean fenced in most of the best trees in an apple grove planted and tended by Pequot women. Dean also took six cart loads of apples when they were ripe denying them to the women. One document appears to be a draft petition requesting a land patent for the Pequots based on the boundaries “beginning at a small black oak then running on an east point to the Winthrop Pine swamp, then runing south by the pine swamp to the south end, the running to Lanthorn Rd, the turtning southward to the mouth of the Mistick River..."
