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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 24., The Indians of the Mystic valley and the litigation over their land. (search)
ence to a certain parcel of land now in the possession of said Gleason given by Squa Sachem to Jotham Gibbons The Court in a hearing of the Case and All persons concerned doe finde for the defendant. Cost of Court forty-four shillings and four pence. The Johnson affidavit Edwd Johnson aged 60 yrs. witnesseth that about one or two & twenty years ago This deponent being at the Wigwam of Squa Sachem, there was present Mr Increase Nowell Major Edward Gibbons Ralph Sprague & Edward Converse & some others of Charlestown at which time according to the interpretation of her and her husbands meaning by the above named Major Edward Gibbons they did grant and sell unto Charlestown all their land within the limits of Charlestown, except that on the west side of the ponds called Mystic where their wigwam then stood which they reserved for term of her life & after her decease they did then declare it should come & remain to Jno Winthrop Esqr. Mr Increase Nowell Mr Jno. Wilson & t