Guide to the manuscript materials for the history of the United States to 1783, in the British Museum, in minor London archives, and in the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge / by Charles M. Andrews and Frances G. Davenport.

  • Charles McLean Andrews
Date:
1908
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Credit: Guide to the manuscript materials for the history of the United States to 1783, in the British Museum, in minor London archives, and in the libraries of Oxford and Cambridge / by Charles M. Andrews and Frances G. Davenport. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4205. Consideration on State of Affairs, etc. Description of Northern Colonies, by Peter Williamson (1758). 4243. Enquiry, etc. Causes of the Discontent of Delaware Indians (1759)- 4284. Interest of Great Britain as to her Colonies (1760). 4321. Importance of the Colonies to Great Britain, by John Rutherford (1761). 4325. Description of South Carolina (1761). 1052. A collection of deeds and other exhibits in the case of the Mohegan Indians. f. 1. Indian deed from Uncas, sachem of the Moheegs, and Oaneko, his son, to Tho: Hollister of Wethersfield in the Colony of Con¬ necticut (for kindness received) of 100 acres of land in the Mohe¬ gan country. March 18, 1675/6. (Certified by John Talcott that Uncas appeared before him, June 19, 1677, and acknowledged this deed.) f. ib. Assignment of above mentioned land by Tho. Hollister to Nath. Bowman, September 9, 1682, witnessed by Samll. Talcott and Nath. Butler and signed by Tho. Hollister. (Below is assignment by Nath. Bowman of right and title to Capt. Fitch of Norwich, October 21, 1682.) f. 3. Deed from Uncas and Owaneto to Tho. Tracy and Thomas Leffingwell of Norwich of 400 acres according to the grant of the general court of Hartford, October 10, 1677, lying eastward from Showatuckket River. (Taken from colony record of deeds, vol. III. in secretary of state’s office, Hartford, Connecticut.) f. 4. Deed, partly mutilated, of Mohegan territory, to whom gone. Signed Uncas, Owaneco, Atawanhood. June 6, 1659. (“This deed is recorded in the [cu]ntry Book, [A]ugust. Allyn, Sec.”) f. 5. Deed to Maj. John Mason from the same. December 14, 1663. (“ Entered in the Stonington Book of Records for Land, ff. 353, August 15, 1705, Elnathan Minor, Town Clerk.” “Entered in second book of Deeds in Preston, folo. 165, January 12, 1708/9, Jonathan Tracy, Record1'.” Also “ Questions proposed to Onato by an interpreter under oath ”, with answers.) f. 6. Deed from Uncas and Waurquay (probably Waurkete, see Love’s Samson Occom, p. 366), sachems of the Mohegans, Au¬ gust 15, 1659, to John Mason. (“Entered in Stonington 2 Book for Deeds, August 15, 1705, Elnathan Minor, Town Clerk.” Other affidavits attached with attestations and places of record.) f. 7. “ Covenants and Agreements made between the English Inhabi¬ tants within the jurisdiction of the River of Connecticut of the one part and Miantonome the chief sachem of the Indians called the Narregansets in the behalf of himself and other sachems there, Anepoquaum or Uncas, the chief sachem, etc. September 21, 1638.” (Then follow twelve sections relating to peace with the Indians. Sections 9-12 are torn away at the bottom. Copy made May 25, 1665, by Daniel Clark, Secretary.)