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Medford Historical Society Papers, Volume 29., The history of the Royall house and its occupants. (search)
sovereign. Among the instructions from the Parent Company, written from England to Mr. John Endecott, is the following:— If any of the savages pretend the right of inheritance to all or any of the lands granted in our patent, we pray you to endeavor to purchase their title, that we may avoid the least scruple of invasion. Under these instructions several deeds were received from the Indians, the one covering Medford lands being from Squa Sachem, who on the death of her husband, Sagamore John, became the chief of her tribe. The deed reads in part as follows: Wee Web-Cowit and Squa Sachem do sell unto the inhabitants of Charlestown all lands granted by the Court, closing with Wee acknowledge to have received in full satisfaction twenty and one coates, nineteen fathoms of wampum and three bushels of come. In witness whereof wee have here unto sett our hands this day the 15th of the seconed month 1639. Signed Web Cowit Squa Sachem. If all that has been wr