Box 1
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Manuscript copies of court decisions related to allocation of lands bordering the Pawcatuck River and Mystic River to Harvard College and Thomas Danforth (2 copies), March 23, 1657/8-May 26, 1658 Digital
FOUND IN:
Harvard University Archives
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Collection:
Records of land and property owned by Harvard University
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Series:
II. Pequot land
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2Identifier: UAI15.750
Scope and Contents:
The records in this series are related to land which formerly belonged to the Pequot tribe of Native Americans (located in what is now Connecticut and Rhode Island) which was granted to Harvard College by the General Court in the 1650s. A first tract of land, allocated on October 19, 1652, comprised 200 acres and a second, allocated on May 18, 1653, comprised 800 acres. These two grants were rendered null by a third allocation, made on May 19, 1658, which comprised “2,100 acres in Pequot...