Indians of North America : 59 autograph deeds, apprentice indentures, letters, invoices and receipts, 1662-1828

[e] of ; In Witness and confirm[at]ion Whereof I the above [n?]amed Oeneco have hereunto [?lt] my hand and seal - [t?]his the twelvth bay of Decemb^r An-no Dom^r one [t]housand Six hundred Ninety and nine - ~ ~ ~ [sig?]ned and sealed in presence - of us ~ ~ ~

[Rar?] [Bus?]hnell [Chr?]istopher Huntington

Thi[s] deed is recorded in the Book of deeds in Norwich. fol: 8: Novemb^r 5^th 1700 - [?] Richard Bushnell Reco[?]

1862 1704 [1?] 5

[right column under main text] onanaco his mar[k?] [drawing] orvana[co] acknowledged the within writen deed before me Samuell Mason [asstnt] norwich [S]eptember the 4 1700

Rec[o^d?] this deed May.3^d. 1704. to be record[?] entred in the book of Re[?] for lands of Canterbury page per Elisha Paine Town Cla[rk?]

To all people to whome these presents shall come oeneco sachem in the county of Newlondon in the colony of concticutt in New Eng [?]th greeting, Know yea that I the s[ai]d oeneco for and in considerat [t?]he sum of eight pounds current money to me in hand payd. or see[?] [p?]ayd before the ensealeing hereof by Josiah Cleaveland of a n[?] [?]ation upon Quenabauge River comonly called and known by th[e?] [p?]eags com]?]uck in the county of New London in the colony of Conecti[?] England affores[ai]d husbandman, the receipt whereof I doe acknowledge and the[?] fully satisfied contented and payd, and thereof and of every [page is torn away here] the[?] [s?]aid oeneco doe by these prefents [page torn away here] [acq?]uitt exonerate and [page torn away here] full[?] [?] [Jo]siah Cleaveland his heirs execut[o]rs Administrators and evry of the [?]er, I have and by these doe fully freely and Absolutely Ba[r]gaine S[e?] [?]e infeofe pass over and confirme from me the sd oeneco. and [fr?] [?]ies unto the sd Josiah Cleaveland and to his heirs & assignes for ever [s?]everall tracts, or parcells of land hereafter by these presents mentio[?] [?]acts or parcells of kand are lying and being on the west side of the sd [?] [Qu?]enabaug and bounded as followeth, the first parcell contayne[n]g one hun[?] [mo?]re or less lying westerly from his now dwelling house and is adjoyneing to a parc[?] land s[ai]d cleaveland purchased of Cal[i?] Bushnell of Norwich, begining att the south [?]st corner of sd land att a black oake tree marked, and from thence runing a streigh[t] [?]e westerly one hundred twenty and seven rodds to a white oake tree marked EC [fr?]om thence a streight line northerly, one hundred twenty and [ei?]ght rodds to a white [oa?]ke tree tree, from thence run[n]ing easterly sixty eight rodds to a heap of stones [wh]ich is a bounderie of the land s[ai]d cleaveland bought of s[ai]d Bushnell, and from [the]nce easterly by the s[ai]d land sixty [r]odds to a white oake tree, as also anothre [pa?]rcell conteyneing seventy six acres, more or less, lying northwesterly from [hi?] [?] dwelling house, and is lying and being on both sides of a [Branch?] called [?]ud[?] [?] [?] att the southwest corner run[n]ing a streight line east to John [Tra?] [page torn] to a white oake [tr]ee marked I:T, which is reputed to be [?] [?] bound mark of John Tracy Land, [?]en run[n]ing easterly two [?] thirty four rodds to a white oake tree marked I.C: abutting southerly [?] Land southerly, from thence run[n]ing northerly seventy six rodds to a [white?] [?] marked I:C: from thence a streight line southwesterly one hundred & thirty rod[ds] white oake tree marked I:C: from thence [across?] the end of a hill run[n]ing N[ort?] [?]t forty rods to a white oake tree marked I:C: from thence run[n]ing westerly [?] one rodds to a white oake tree marked I:C: from thence run[n]ing southerly to [ho?]rnbeam tree by a spring forty eight rodds / . from thence southeasterly to a oake tree marked fifty rodds which is the first station / . as also twenty six adjoyneing to the first mentioned parcell, the north east corner a blackho[?] marked I:C: from thence run[n]ing westerly to a white oake tree markt I:[?] [?] thence a line southerly to the northwest corner of the abovs[ai]d hundr[?] [?]ht of the aboves[ai]d oeneco, I the s[ai]d oeneco for and in the consider[?] [?]s[ai]d have bargained and sold [as?] affore s[ai]d unto the s[ai]d Cleave[land] all the appurtences and priveledges thereunto belonging, and all my title interest claime and demand of, in, and to the same, and every and parcell therof To have and to hold all the afforementione[d] parcells of Land lying being abutted and bounded as affores[ai]d, with all [?]ler theire Rights and appurtenances, from me the s[ai]d oeneco and from my [u]nto the s[ai]d Josiah Cleaveland and t[o] his heirs and assignes for ever, with all the [?]r, trees, woods, under woods, sto[?]es, mines mineralls, waters, water courses [?]ers profits privilidges acomodations, priviledges and apurtenances whats[oever?] [t]he s[ai]d bargained premises belonging, and the s[ai]d oeneco doth covenan[t] [ag?]ree to and with the s[ai]d Josiah Cleaveland his heirs, that att the time [of?] [barga?]ine and sale, he is the true and lawfull owner of the above bargained [prem?]ises, and that he will warrant a[nd?] defend the same from and against all just cl[?] ever, and that the s[ai]d Josiah Cleaveland by force and vertue of these presents [?] [?]d his heirs executors Administrators and assignes, shall and may from time to time [?] [?]es after the date hereof peaceablly, quietly, have hold occupy possess and ini[?] [ev?]ery part and parcell of the above bargained premises with theire appurtenances [o?]nly proper ise benifett and behoofe of the s[ai]d Josiah Cleaveland his heirs [ass]ignes for ever / and that I have herewith given livery & seizen of the granted premises, and every part and parcell thereof [?]

Josiah Cleavland Deed from Oeneco

Canterbury october.12.1704 at a Town meeting legally warned this Town allowed of voted and granted this deed withall the land therein contained to the within written Josiah Cleavland his heirs and Assigng forever Attest Elisha Paine Town Clark The above written Grant is Recorded in the Town book . folio.73: viz. Grants of Lands

Relic of Mrs H. W. Graham 81 Meadow St New Haven