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Near Fine. No Jacket (as issued) 8vo 7.75-9.75'' tall. Nice Firm Clean copy! Has worn slipcase. 144 pages. Contents: Introduction. Tribal Territories-Merrimack River-Pentucket-Agawam-Naumkeag. Right to the Soil. Force and Effect of Indian Deeds. Ipswich Deeds. Deed of Haverhill. Conveyance of Andover. Newbury Deeds. Conveyance of Nahant. Deed of Marblehead. Lynn Deeds. Salem Deeds. Deed of Beverly. Deed of Manchester. Deed of Wenham. Deed of Gloucester. Deeds of Boxford. Deed of Rowley. Bradford Deeds. Deed of Topsfield. Index. In justice to both Indians and English it should be stated that, on the part of the public here, probably no attempt was ever made to purchase the lands of the Indians. At the very first the authorities discouraged such a movement, saying, in the first general letter of the governor and deputy of the New England Company to the governor and council for London's plantation in the Massachusetts Bay in New England, dated at Gravesend, April 17, 1629, that if any of the savages pretend right of inheritance to the lands the representatives of the company should endeavor to purchase their titles 'that wee may avoyde the least scruple of intrusion'.