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To All People to Whom These Presents Shall Come:  Greeting
 
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Know all men by these presents that I, Hatchet Towsey, Indian, of Farmington in the County of Hartford in the Colony of Connecticut in New England, for the consideration of fifteen shillings current money, received of an Indian lately of Hartford, now of Farmington, called young Awiskheag, alias, Tassawomp, do give, grant, bargain, sell, and confirm unto him, the said Awiskheag, alias Tassawomp, his heirs, and assigns forever, one certain piece or parcel of land within the bounds of the T
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Whereas, there was by ancient proprietors and first settlers of the Town of Farmington in the year 1650 ceded to the Tunxis Tribe of Indians, so-called, then living in said Farmington, a large tract of land containing about seventy-three acres and a half, lying in Farmington Meadow at a place ever since known by the name of the Indian Neck, which parcel of land was butted south and east by the river, north, partly land called Wells’s Farm and partly by land formerly bel
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To the Sheriff of Hartford County, His Deputy, or Either of Farmington Constables in said County, Greetings

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To All People to Whom These Presents Shall Come: Greeting
 
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To the Honorable the General Assembly to Be Holden at New Haven within and for the State of Connecticut on the Second Thursday of October Next  
 
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To All People to Whom These Presents Shall Come: Greeting

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To All People to Whom These Presents Shall Come: Greeting 
 
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To All People to Whom These Presents Shall Come: Greeting
 
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At a General Assembly of the Colony of Connecticut holden at Hartford on the second Thursday of May 1774
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Upon the memorial of Elijah Wampey, Solomon Mossuck, Samuel Adams, and the rest of the tribe of Tunxis Indians living in Farmington, showing to this Assembly that upon the invitation of the Indians of the Six Nations to come up and dwell with them, promising them a sufficiency of lands for them, etc., the memorialists propose to remove and pray that Colonel John Strong, Fisher Gay, Esq., and

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