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THE WHEELWRIGHT DEED

May 17, 1629 Actual Document Location: Doubtful, BOOK 2 PAGE 123  Whereas we the Sagamores of Penecook, Pentucket, Squamsquot, and Nuchawanack are inclined to have the English inhabit amongst us by which means we hope in time to be Strengthened against our Enemies who yearly doth us Damage likewise being persuaded that it will be for the good of us and our Posterity, do hereby covenant and agree with the English as follows - - - in consideration of a Competent valuation in goods already received in Coats, Shirts, and victuals...convey all that part of the Main Land bounded by the River of Pisattaqua and the River of Meremack...   In Witness whereof we have hereunuto set our hands and seals the seventeeth day of May 1629 and in the fifth year of King Charles's reign over England...Passaconaway...Runaawitt, Wahanqnononawitt, Wardargoscum...http://www.tiac.net/users/nmrd/history.html

"I am aware that this deed has been pronounced a forgery, but authentic documents have lately come to light, that go to show the genuineness of this instrument." Judge C. E. Potter, 1851 http://www.usgennet.org/usa/nh/county/hillsborough/manchester/book/evening.html

W. J. Sidis wrote:

["One of the earliest of Passaconaway's transactions with the English is said to have been his signing of the famous Wheelwright Deed. By many this has been considered a forgery. The Rev. N. Bouton, D. D., Editor of the Provincial Papers of New Hampshire, writes thus, however: 'The famous 'Wheelwright Deed, which has been pronounced a forgery by Hon. James Savage, the distinguished antiquarian of Boston, and the late John Farmer, Esq., of Concord, bears date May 17, 1629. Hon. Chandler E. Potter, who has devoted much attention and research to the subject, maintains the validity of the deed. But whether the deed be a forgery or not it forms part of our history;--is the basis on which rests the grant of several townships in the state, is recognized in various ways in our public records as genuine. . . . The deed is recorded in the office of Recorder of Deeds, at Exeter.' " ⁶⁵

        "Let me give the substance of this famous document in a few words. It certifies that Passaconaway, for certain valuable considerations, sells to John Wheelwright and his associates a tract of land extending from the then (1629) Massachusetts line thirty miles into the country, and from the Piscataqua to the Merrimac, reserving the hunting and fishing rights to his people. The seventh and last article declares that 'every township within the aforesaid limits or tract of land that hereafter shall be settled shall pay to Passaconaway our chief sagamore that now is and to his successors forever, if lawfully demanded, one coat of trucking cloth a year.' ⁶⁶ The names or marks of several noted sagamons were affixed to the deed as were also the signatures of some of the respectable planters of Saco and Piscataqua. Whether the Wheelwright Deed is valid or not, it affords proof of the extent of the Bashaba's power and dominions.⁶⁷

        "Rev. John Wheelwright had been a preacher at Braintree, then part of Boston, and was a brother of Anne Hutchinson. For preaching too searching a sermon in Boston on Fast Day, 1636, he was banished. Making his way to Exeter, he took up his abode there. He was a gentleman of 'learning, piety and zeal,'  ⁶⁸ and it seems unthinkable that a man of his character would countenance a forgery (see  Chap 1)."

the sachems were chiefs and kings, not savages, rabbis, or the name of a tribe...the tribe belonged to the Massachusett nation--not Pawtuckett...the land now Winchester was neither stolen nor taken by force and no lives were lost over it...at least two generations of sachems lived in peace and friendship with the English...Squaw Sachem was a rare (but not unique) Indian title http://www.winchestermass.org/sachemp1.html             http://www.winchestermass.org/sachemp2.html

The remaining son, Wenepoykin, Sachem of Naumkeag, and his wife, Ahawayet (daughter of Passaconaway, the mighty Sachem of Pawtucket), consolidated the lands and tribes into one group.
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The Indian name of this tract was Neahambeak as appears from a deed of land upon Black brook, from "Wanalanset the only Sonne surviving of old Passaconaway, deceased, who was the great and chiefe Sachem upon Merimack River" to Thomas, Henchman...http://genweb.net/~books/ma/chelmsford1917/chel001ch1.txt

the name is derived from "Pappisseconewa, which in turn came from "Papoeis", meaning child, and "Kunnaway," meaning bear. So we might way his name meant "Bear Child" or, as you have it, "Child of the bear." Passaconaway was initially a minor sachem (of the Pennacook tribe) under Nanepashemet of the Massachusetts Federation, but when the Indians of Maine made war against Nanepashemet and forced him into hiding for three years, the Massachusetts Federation fell apart. Passaconaway aligned himself withthe Pawtucket Federation and eventually became their Grand Sachem.-- from Rob Kutz cgtrader@erols.com

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