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Mystic River (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
ell unto the Inhabitants of the Towne of Charlestowne, all the land within the lines granted them by the Court excepting the farmes and the ground on the west of the two great Ponds called Misticke ponds, from the south side of Mr. Nowell's lott neere the upper end of the ponds unto the little runnet Sucker brook in Arlington. that cometh from Capt. Cooke's mill which the Squaw reserveth to their use for her life for the Indians to plant and hunt upon and the weare At the mouth of the Aberjona. This point was overflowed by the dam at the partings in 1865. above the Ponds they also reserve for the Indians to fish at whiles the Squaw liveth, and after the death of Squaw Sachem shee doth leave all her lands from Mr Mayhues house Cradock's farm house at Medford Square. to near Salem to the present Governor Mr. John Winthrop Senr. Mr. Increase Nowell Mr. John Wilson Mr Edward Gibons to dispose of, and all Indians to depart and for sattisfaction from Charlestowne, wee acknowledge t
New England (United States) (search for this): chapter 26
l 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 ree so declared by Christians One thousand six hundred thirty and nine and in the fiftenth yeare of the Reigne of King Charles of England &c willing that these be recorded before our much honoured friends the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay in New England and the rest of the Magistrates there for perpetual remembrace of this thing. The Squa Sachem markeX & a seal Web-Cowits markX & a seal Signed sealed and delivered in presenee of Robert Lucar Edmund Quinsey Robert Gillum
Mystick River (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
The Indians of the Mystic valley and the litigation over their land. Hall Gleason, following the research of the late Daniel A. Gleason. The renowned sachem of the Pawtuckets was Nanepashemit, who removed from Lynn in 1615, and took up his abode on Mystic river where he was killed in 1619. During his short and eventful residence in Medford his house was placed on Rock hill, where he could best watch canoes in the river. So says Medford's historian. Other histories show him as living in Medford not far from the river or from the pond and on the tops of hills. This eminent grand sachem was the father of Sagamore John of Mystic, Sagamore James of Lynn and Sagamore George of Salem. George finally became sachem of the Pawtuckets. Their chief enemies were the Tarratines on the Penobscot, who at harvest would come in their canoes and reap the fields in this neighborhood. One hundred of them attacked Sagamores John and James August 8, 1631, by night and wounded them and killed
Charlestowne (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
session of the ground which I reserved from Charlestowne and Cambridge which lyes against the ponds o sell unto the Inhabitants of the Towne of Charlestowne, all the land within the lines granted themndians to depart and for sattisfaction from Charlestowne, wee acknowledge to have received in full s made at the charges of the Inhabitants of Charlestowne and to their use, and for so much as lyeth rence thereunto being had unto the Towne of Charlestowne I do hereby declare that in that Act of minterpreter, and that they did not sell it to Charlestowne In the presence of us Jno. Winthrop Ge etc. lying and being within the bounds of Charlestowne—commonly known and called by the name of thDavison in the behalf of the Inhabitants of Charlestowne plffs. brought action against Thomas Gleisd two pence. At the County Court held in Charlestowne Dec. 16, 1662, Thomas Gleison as plaintiff tham Gibbons in 1636, which I reserved from Charlestowne and Cambridge it seems there must have been[1 more...]
Lynn (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
The Indians of the Mystic valley and the litigation over their land. Hall Gleason, following the research of the late Daniel A. Gleason. The renowned sachem of the Pawtuckets was Nanepashemit, who removed from Lynn in 1615, and took up his abode on Mystic river where he was killed in 1619. During his short and eventful residence in Medford his house was placed on Rock hill, where he could best watch canoes in the river. So says Medford's historian. Other histories show him as living in Medford not far from the river or from the pond and on the tops of hills. This eminent grand sachem was the father of Sagamore John of Mystic, Sagamore James of Lynn and Sagamore George of Salem. George finally became sachem of the Pawtuckets. Their chief enemies were the Tarratines on the Penobscot, who at harvest would come in their canoes and reap the fields in this neighborhood. One hundred of them attacked Sagamores John and James August 8, 1631, by night and wounded them and killed
Rock Hill (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
The Indians of the Mystic valley and the litigation over their land. Hall Gleason, following the research of the late Daniel A. Gleason. The renowned sachem of the Pawtuckets was Nanepashemit, who removed from Lynn in 1615, and took up his abode on Mystic river where he was killed in 1619. During his short and eventful residence in Medford his house was placed on Rock hill, where he could best watch canoes in the river. So says Medford's historian. Other histories show him as living in Medford not far from the river or from the pond and on the tops of hills. This eminent grand sachem was the father of Sagamore John of Mystic, Sagamore James of Lynn and Sagamore George of Salem. George finally became sachem of the Pawtuckets. Their chief enemies were the Tarratines on the Penobscot, who at harvest would come in their canoes and reap the fields in this neighborhood. One hundred of them attacked Sagamores John and James August 8, 1631, by night and wounded them and killed
Mystic Pond (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
runs into the pond from the old Fowle and grain mills, north to the point just above the upper pond where the Middlesex canal formerly crossed to the long point (now a part of the Metropolitan park reservation) which reaches out between the upper pond and what is now known as Bacon's. The squa sachem described that boundary as the south end of Mr. Nowell's land. A witness, in the suit to be mentioned, described the [southern] as the little brook that runneth from Capt. Cook's mill to Mystic pond. Col. George Cooke had early built a mill a little above the present site of 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 [Wate
Salem (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
iver or from the pond and on the tops of hills. This eminent grand sachem was the father of Sagamore John of Mystic, Sagamore James of Lynn and Sagamore George of Salem. George finally became sachem of the Pawtuckets. Their chief enemies were the Tarratines on the Penobscot, who at harvest would come in their canoes and reap thewhiles the Squaw liveth, and after the death of Squaw Sachem shee doth leave all her lands from Mr Mayhues house Cradock's farm house at Medford Square. to near Salem to the present Governor Mr. John Winthrop Senr. Mr. Increase Nowell Mr. John Wilson Mr Edward Gibons to dispose of, and all Indians to depart and for sattisfaction 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 Richar
Bermuda (search for this): chapter 26
t acting for his wife the messuage etc. lying and being within the bounds of Charlestowne—commonly known and called by the name of the Major Gibbons farme for ten years at a rental of eight pounds a year. This lease and attendant litigation is briefly as follows: In 1650 the Squa died, according to the deposition of Richard Church in Scarlett v. Gardiner, and Edward Gibbons took possession of the land in behalf of his son. In 1655, 9th of 5 mo. (July 9) Jotham, describing himself as of Bermuda, appointed Thomas Lake and Josh: Scottow general attorneys for many purposes, and among other things to recover possession of the parcell of land belonging unto me sometimes called by the name of Squa 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
Watertown (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 26
op 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 Boston. If so, it is apparently hopelessly lost. From the expression in the first deed to Jotham Gibbons in 1636, which I reserved from Charlestowne and Cambridge it seems there must have been an earlier conveyance, probably in 1635, perhaps by the symbolical delivery of turf and twig upon the ground itself. But the decision to give one-quarter only of the reservation to Jotham Gibbons, grantee, is absolutely incomprehensible. The deed is so clumsily expressed as to requ
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