Auction: Books & Manuscripts - 2571BLocation: BostonDate / Time: November 13, 2011 11:00AM
Description:
(Colonial America, Native American Deed), Manuscript document signed, three pages, March 19th, 1728, deed to purchase 7500 acres of land, signed by eight members of the Hassanamisco tribe with their marks and forty English families, also witnessed by five men, folio, 15 x 9 1/2 in., (restorations along folds, age typical defects).
The tracts of land referred to in this document, Hassanamiscoe in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, was incorporated into the town of Grafton.
Estimate $5,000-7,000