Description: The grantors reserved their planting grounds and rights to fishing and nut harvesting as well as the receipt of damages for crops spoiled by the settler's cattle.
Description: Marblehead separated from Salem and incorporated as a separate town in 1649. Like the 1684 Indian deed to Boston, this deed was executed after King Charles II revoked the charter of Massachusetts Bay, thus rendering invalid all land titles if had granted. Winepoykin agreed to the grant but died before it could be executed. The deed was signed by his heirs.
Description: This quit claim deed, sighed by Josiah Wampatuck, was likely sought by The Massachusetts Bay Colony to counter the annulment by King James II of its original 1629 charter granted by Charles I in 1628.
Description: This dedicatory (?) stone plaque was placed at the site of a chapel built at Meductic by Jesuit missionary Jean-Pierre Daniélou, who served there beginning in 1731.
Description: 1717 Arrowsic Conference A Conference of His Excellency the Governor, with the Sachems and Chief Men of the Eastern Indians. Boston: B. Green, 1717. Evans 1894