Two Colonial Connecticut Land Purchase Deeds with Indian Signatures

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Two Colonial Connecticut Land Purchase Deeds with Indian Signatures, the first dated 1686/7, an agreement stating that Wampom, the present sachem, Nawattokis (alias Richard),Sibbonjonson, Geoffrey, and Mannaposset (alias Young Richard) Indians, and native presenters of Totokett (an Algonquian speaking native tribe) in the township of Branford, in the county of New Haven, in the colony of Connecticut, received ten pounds for purchase of land by William Rosewell, Edward Barker, Thomas Harrison, William Hoadly, Eleazar Ster--, and John Frissbe, signed by the five Indians with their pictograph marks and small wax seals, also signed by John Rosewell and John Crane, and James Bishop (1625-1691),Deputy Governor of the Connecticut colony, from 1683 to 1687, (old folds, toning, stains, not examined out of frame),12 x 7 1/2 in., framed; the second dated 1716/17, an agreement stating that Richard Indians, Sr., and Richard Indians, Jr., received eight pounds for the purchase of land in the township of Branford, by John Howd, Samuel Stone, Isaac Harrison, Samuel Harrington, and John Russell, signed by the two Indians with their pictograph marks and small wax seals, in the presence of Joseph Taintor, Timothy Russell and Edward Barker, Justice of the Peace, (old folds, toning, stains, inscriptions to the verso bleeding through, not examined out of frame),11 7/8 x 7 3/8 in., framed.

Provenance: Linsly Homestead, North Branford, Connecticut.
Estimate $300-500


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