Tracing Our Home’s Colonial Title:

Legacy, Law, and Land

About the Christian Generational Estate Trust Trust

The Christian Generational Estate Trust was established to lawfully preserve and protect private property title in accordance with original land grants and pre-constitutional principles of ownership.

Unlike conventional title companies that trace back only a few decades, we have researched and confirmed a continuous and unbroken chain of title dating back to the colonial era. This effort links our property directly to the historic Fairfield Long Lots system and the original Aspetuck Purchase of 1681.

Connecting Land and Legacy

Our research draws upon:

• Fairfield County land records - Fairfield, Weston, and Easton
• Colonial probate archives
• Archeological and historical surveys

One critical reference is the Historical and Archeological Assessment Survey of Easton, Connecticut, prepared in 2012 for the Easton Historical Society. The study, authored by Stuart Reeve, David Silverglade, and Kathleen von Jena, confirms:

“In 1681, the Aspetuck Purchase was distributed on paper to about 100 Fairfield proprietors... establishing a landed hierarchy... resulting in the gradual formation of Stratfield, Fairfield West, Greenfield Hill, Redding, Weston, Norfield, and eventually Easton.”

This plan, known as the Long Lots, shaped modern Easton’s roadways and stone walls. Many of these tracts were passed within families, such as the Sherwoods, without break in title for generations.

Historical Land Plan (1681)

We seek to honor:

Original land grantees

Family stewardship across generations

The unalienable right to hold land in peace and privacy

Original layout of Easton’s Long Lots – showing the foundational grid of land allocation by width and lineage. Our private estate trust property aligns with these records, reinforcing unbroken title.