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Jonathan Wilson (search for this): chapter 26
of Squa Sachem X the mark of Web Cowet O Subscribed in the presence off Jno. Humphery Robert Feake This is to testifie that the aforenamed purchase was made at the charges of the Inhabitants of Charlestowne and to their use, and for so much as lyeth within their limitts we do accordingly resign and yield up all our interest therein to the use of the said town according to the trust reposed in us. Dec. 18, 1639 10th. mo. 18th. 1639 Jno. Winthrop Govrnr Increase Nowell Jno. Wilson Oct. 23, 1656 Entered & Recorded 23th 8 mo. 1656 by Thos. Danforth Recorder. The last clause of this deed is more fully explained in this affidavit of John Wilson in 1662: Middlesex co. Ct. Files 1662 Gleason V. Norton & Al These may serve to certify whomsoever they may concern that whereas I undeawritten together with the Honord Mr Jno. Winthrop & Mr Increase Nowell both deceased have sett my hand unto a certain writing wherein wee resigned up all our interest that wee ha
Henry Dunster (search for this): chapter 26
the old Fowle grain mill and was a man of repute. He returned to England on the breaking out of the Civil War, was made a colonel under Cromwell and was killed in Ireland in 1652. Administration of his estate in this country was granted to Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard, and Colonel Cooke's older brother Joseph in 1653. Some three hundred feet or so above the present dam just where a street [Water street] comes down to the west side of the pond [mill pond] are projections reachin Sachem's hill. It was mortgaged to Scottow, redeemed by Scarlett in the right of his wife, leased by him to Thomas Gleason who entered under the lease and soon had his hands full of work and trouble. In the summer of 1659 men employed by Henry Dunster as executor of Colonel Cooke began to mow the grass in the meadow below the mill. Thomas Gleason, assisted doubtless by his brawny sons, set upon the men, drove them off and carried off the hay. In the County Court held at Cambridge April
Gibbons Ralph Sprague (search for this): chapter 26
d defendant in refference 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 Nowe
Edward Gibons (search for this): chapter 26
3, and Richard Beers, Benjamin Crisp and Garret Church say that Mayhew lived there in 1636. On the thirteenth of November, 1639, the squa sachem gave another deed to Jotham Gibbons for the same tract of land as follows: Middx. Deeds B. I, p. 176 Be it known unto all men by these presents that we Webcowites and the Squa Sachem of Misticke wife of the said Webcowites calling to mind and well considering the many kindnesses and benefits we have received from the hands of Captain Edward Gibons of Boston in New England in part of requitall whereof and for our tender love and good respect that we do beare to Jotham Gibones Sonne & Heyre Apparent of the said Captain Gibones Do hereby of our own motion and accord give & grant unto the said Jotham Gibones the reversion of all that parcell of land which lies against the ponds at Misticke aforesaid together with the said Ponds, all which we reserved from Charlestowne and Cambridge late called Newtowne and all hereditaments and ap
Richard Saltonstall (search for this): chapter 26
ert Gillum This writing is acknowledged to be the deed of Squa Sachem and Web-Cowites, and the marks and seals thereunto affixed to be their marks & seals and have manifested and explained the bounds of the said grant or deed to be distinct from the land which was given to the Governor Mr Nowell Mr Wilson and Capt. Gibones, Benedict Arnold being interpreter, and that they did not sell it to Charlestowne In the presence of us Jno. Winthrop Governr Jno. Endecott Dept. Govr. Richard Saltonstall Thomas Flint Recorded 3 (6) 1643 by William Aspinwall Recorder Entred & Recorded 23 (8）1656 by Thomas Danforth Recorder. The Major Gibbons farm or the Squa Sachem's reservation was a tract of about five hundred acres 480 per Plan. on the west shore of Mystic ponds, reaching along the shore of both ponds, from the stream Sucker brook. that runs into the pond from the old Fowle and grain mills, north to the point just above the upper pond where the Middlesex canal fo
Jonathan Winthrop Govrnr (search for this): chapter 26
the day and year above named the mark of Squa Sachem X the mark of Web Cowet O Subscribed in the presence off Jno. Humphery Robert Feake This is to testifie that the aforenamed purchase was made at the charges of the Inhabitants of Charlestowne and to their use, and for so much as lyeth within their limitts we do accordingly resign and yield up all our interest therein to the use of the said town according to the trust reposed in us. Dec. 18, 1639 10th. mo. 18th. 1639 Jno. Winthrop Govrnr Increase Nowell Jno. Wilson Oct. 23, 1656 Entered & Recorded 23th 8 mo. 1656 by Thos. Danforth Recorder. The last clause of this deed is more fully explained in this affidavit of John Wilson in 1662: Middlesex co. Ct. Files 1662 Gleason V. Norton & Al These may serve to certify whomsoever they may concern that whereas I undeawritten together with the Honord Mr Jno. Winthrop & Mr Increase Nowell both deceased have sett my hand unto a certain writing wherein wee resi
Gibones (search for this): chapter 26
esses and benefits we have received from the hands of Captain Edward Gibons of Boston in New England in part of requitall whereof and for our tender love and good respect that we do beare to Jotham Gibones Sonne & Heyre Apparent of the said Captain Gibones Do hereby of our own motion and accord give & grant unto the said Jotham Gibones the reversion of all that parcell of land which lies against the ponds at Misticke aforesaid together with the said Ponds, all which we reserved from Charlestowm and Web-Cowites, and the marks and seals thereunto affixed to be their marks & seals and have manifested and explained the bounds of the said grant or deed to be distinct from the land which was given to the Governor Mr Nowell Mr Wilson and Capt. Gibones, Benedict Arnold being interpreter, and that they did not sell it to Charlestowne In the presence of us Jno. Winthrop Governr Jno. Endecott Dept. Govr. Richard Saltonstall Thomas Flint Recorded 3 (6) 1643 by William Aspinwall
Edwd Johnson (search for this): chapter 26
on for Capt Scarlett In the case now depending between Capt Francis Norton and and Mr Nicholas Davison plaintiffs in the behalf of Charlestown aforesaid and Thomas Gleason aforesaid defendant in refference 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 M
Benjamin Crisp (search for this): chapter 26
hand this 15th. of December 1662. John Wilson Sen. This is owned in Court 17. 10. 62 as signed by Mr Wilson. The bound for the commencement of the Indian grant was from Mr. Mayhews house to neere Salem Affidavits of Edmund Converse, Benjamin Crisp and Joseph Hills used in Gleason v. Norton & al. in 1662 say that Davison lived in Meadford house in 1633, and Richard Beers, Benjamin Crisp and Garret Church say that Mayhew lived there in 1636. On the thirteenth of November, 1639, the sBenjamin Crisp and Garret Church say that Mayhew lived there in 1636. On the thirteenth of November, 1639, the squa sachem gave another deed to Jotham Gibbons for the same tract of land as follows: Middx. Deeds B. I, p. 176 Be it known unto all men by these presents that we Webcowites and the Squa Sachem of Misticke wife of the said Webcowites calling to mind and well considering the many kindnesses and benefits we have received from the hands of Captain Edward Gibons of Boston in New England in part of requitall whereof and for our tender love and good respect that we do beare to Jotham Gibon
Increase Nowell Mr Jno (search for this): chapter 26
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 & the above named Major Edw. Gibbons & the persons & [illegible] this deponent on his return home did enter into his day book for remembrance thereof This is the whole truth remembered so saith Edward Johnson Sworn in court 4. (2) 1660 This Indian deed to Winthrop and others was a most unlucky piece of conveyancing. Paige (History of Cambridge) evidently thinks there was another deed from the Indians releasing the lands within the bounds of Watertown, Cambridge and Bo
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