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1650.04.09.01_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
Colonial reconstruction of an earlier treaty with the Tunxis regarding land and political relations
1783.05.08.00_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Work, Poverty, & Economy, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement, Arts & Abstract Ideas
1783.05.00.01_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Work, Poverty, & Economy, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement, Arts & Abstract Ideas
1774.05.25.00_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Education, Religion, & Missionary Efforts, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
With the potential of selling their land and removing to Oneida Country, Tunxis leaders request a copy of the Colony's laws so that they understand their legal rights and responsibilities, as well as Connecticut's Indian policies.
1776.10.13.00_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
Request to sell land of John Adams, formerly of Farmington, Connecticut, but currently living in Oneida Country
1773.11.02.00_page1_22.455.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
Transfer by father to son of fourteen acres of land in the First Tier in the First Society
1761.03.07.00_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
Transfer from father to son through a bequest of a dwelling house, household goods, and property on the west side of Farmington Meadow
1756.11.03.01_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
Transfer from father to son of a half part of four acres of land and a half part of a dwelling house, being the piece of property purchased from Susannah at Pequabuck Meadow
1748.05.00.00_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
Connecticut Legislature grants Cusk the liberty to sell one acre of his meadowland at Indian Neck so that he can build himself a house
1747.04.09.00_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
Transfer of all the land Hatchet Towsey owns on the west side of the meadow (which lies undivided with the rest of the Tunxis proprietors) to his son, John
1688.09.17.00_page1.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
With all of the Tunxis leaders dead, two men are proposed by colonial authorities and accepted by the Tunxis and other Native people living among them
1741.09.26.00_page1petitions_masa_na_45X_0031_0061_0001.jpg
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A request of Josiah Speen asking permission to sell land to reimburse Deacon Jonathan Rice for items stolen from Rice by Speen's son Daniel, who was one of Rice's servants