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About CGEstate Trust

 

We established the Christian Generational Estate Trust to honor our family’s journey — from a distant homeland to a new life in America. Our parents came seeking religious liberty, opportunity, and the sacred right to build a future for their children. They left everything behind, crossing the Atlantic with faith in God and a hope for freedom.

 

Now, as stewards of that legacy, we reflect on the deeper meaning of home. After living on this land for over twenty years, we began asking:

Who first walked here? What type deeds were issued? What is the true story of this soil? 

 

That search led us to uncover the colonial origins of the land, its original grants, and the rich history behind private landownership in Connecticut. Through this trust, we honor not only our family’s heritage, but also the original allodial rights and private estate traditions of early American settlers.

 

The Christian Generational Estate Trust stands as a record of truth — preserving lawful title, honoring the memory of our ancestors who suffered religous persecution and asserting sovereign stewardship over private land. Freedom of religion and living on the land as having dominion of the land, air and sea. "And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. (Genesis 1:28, 1599 Geneva Bible)

 

Historical Land Records

Our land traces back to the Sherwood family of colonial Fairfield, one of the founding families of the original Long Lots system. The structure shown is a historic Sherwood homestead, a testament to the family's enduring presence in Fairfield County and Easton.

 

The Sherwoods, whose name originates from Nottinghamshire, England, arrived in the 1600s and helped define the land boundaries still recognized today.

 

Easton was once part of Fairfield; thus, records are housed at the Easton Historical Society, Fairfield Museum, and Weston Historical Society. 

https://sherwoodfarm.org/our-history

 

 

Rightful Lineage

Our journey led us to uncover a direct connection to early colonial landholders — the original Sherwood estate. This discovery affirms our lawful, private possession of the land — rooted in natural rights, original grants, and recorded title.

 

Through lawful conveyance, inheritance, and sale — and without escheat, forfeiture, or seizure by any superior authority — the land passed through the hands of:

 

Sherwood family (1737, 1744, 1745, 1803)

Sherwood Seeley and descendants

Staples and Edwards estates

Kent, Abbott, Miner, Patrick, Graf

And ultimately to the Christian Generational Estate Trust by quitclaim in 2024

 

Each transfer is lawfully recorded in the Fairfield County Land Records - Fairfield, Weston, and Easton. 

This establishes uninterrupted private ownership under the original common-law system, secured by pre-constitutional authority.