Description: The grantors reserved their planting grounds and rights to fishing and nut harvesting as well as the receipt of damages for crops spoiled by the settler's cattle.
Description: Marblehead separated from Salem and incorporated as a separate town in 1649. Like the 1684 Indian deed to Boston, this deed was executed after King Charles II revoked the charter of Massachusetts Bay, thus rendering invalid all land titles if had granted. Winepoykin agreed to the grant but died before it could be executed. The deed was signed by his heirs.
Description: This quit claim deed, sighed by Josiah Wampatuck, was likely sought by The Massachusetts Bay Colony to counter the annulment by King James II of its original 1629 charter granted by Charles I in 1628.
Description: This dedicatory (?) stone plaque was placed at the site of a chapel built at Meductic by Jesuit missionary Jean-Pierre Daniélou, who served there beginning in 1731.
Description: 1717 Arrowsic Conference A Conference of His Excellency the Gvernor, with the Sachems and Chief Men of the Eastern Indians. Boston: B. Green, 1717. Evans 1894
Description: Dummer's treaty was originally signed by four Penobscots in Boston in 1725 (Item 400632). This copy of Dummers treaty was signed at Annapolis Royal in Nova Scotia by St. John's Indians (Maliseets) signed the treaty on the opposite side on the dates listed below.
Description: Based upon a drawing by Thomas Jeffrys, this view of nascent Halifax, Nova Scotia, was published in London in 1750. The settlement sparked fierce Acadian and Micmac resistance.
Description: Reconfirmation of Dummer's treaty. Signed at Chebucto (Halifax) Harbor NS. Front side 4 native signatores on 8-15-1749. Backside of the treaty show additional signatores fpr 9-4-1749.
Description: The timing of this advertisement reflects growing English confidence that Britain's coming victory in the Seven Years War would free New England's eastern region for settlement.