Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement

Exploring communities in various forms:  Southern New England Native communities and the way they change with the development of white European settlements among them. Also, exploring why and how these Native people moved outside their reservation lands and what that movement did to their new and former communities.

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Deed from Susannah Wawawos to Elijah Wampey

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
Land transfer of Lot 12 in the Indian Neck allotments containing 2 acres, 3 roods, and 3 perches
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Deed from James and Rachel Wawowos and David and Sarah Towsey to Thankful Shilling

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
Land transfer of 1 acre, 1 rood, and 6 rods with a dwelling house on the Indian lands west of Pequabuck meadow
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Deed from Hatchet Towsey to Tassawomp alias Awiskheag

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
Transfer of about half an acre parcel of land in the 200-acre reservation at Fort Hill to a Suckiaug member residing at Farmington for fifteen shillings
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Deed from James Wawowos to Hannah Mamanash

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
Transfer from two Tunxis at Stockbridge to a Tunxis woman at Chatham of three acres of land and one-half of a dwelling house on the west side of Farmington meadow for 12 pounds, 10 shillings
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Deed from James Wawawos to Samuel Adams

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
Transfer from a Tunxis member at Stockbridge to Tunxis man at Farmington of his rights to a parcel of land on the tribal reservation for ten pounds
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Deed from James Cronnock to Hannah and Ruth Robbins

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
Transfer from a Tunxis at Stockbridge to two Tunxis women at Farmington of a one-acre parcel with a dwelling house located west of Pequabuck Meadow for fifteen pounds
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Deed from Hezekiah Wadsworth to Samuel Adams et al.

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
Transfer from a Farmington settler to a Tunxis/Quinnipiac man of Farmington of five acres, two roods, and thirty perches of land at Fort Hill in the Farmington Common Field for ten pounds, four shillings, and nine pence
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Deed from Elnathan Gridley to Colonel John Strong

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
Transfer to a Quinnipiac man at Farmington and to the East Haven Quinnipiac twenty-one acres in the 49th Lot in the Southeast Division for twelve pounds
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Deed from James Cusk to Timothy Root

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
Transfer of properties owned by a Tunxis man from Stockbridge, Massachusetts from his own right or those from his father to a Farmington resident
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Deed from Elijah Wampey to Thomas Lewis

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Tunxis
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
Transfer by a Tunxis man at Oneida to a Farmington colonist of five acres at Fort Hill for seven pounds