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NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, SIWANOY TRIBE]. Manuscript document signed by CHIEF SHENOROCK, and five other Chiefs: Mawmatoe, Rawmaqua, Hownis, Razi and Pram (each with their totem marks), n.p. [Westchester County, New York], 12 November 1661. 1 page, oblo...

Auction 17.05.1996
17.05.1996
Schätzpreis
5.000 $ - 7.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
8.625 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 275

NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, SIWANOY TRIBE]. Manuscript document signed by CHIEF SHENOROCK, and five other Chiefs: Mawmatoe, Rawmaqua, Hownis, Razi and Pram (each with their totem marks), n.p. [Westchester County, New York], 12 November 1661. 1 page, oblo...

Auction 17.05.1996
17.05.1996
Schätzpreis
5.000 $ - 7.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
8.625 $
Beschreibung:

NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, SIWANOY TRIBE]. Manuscript document signed by CHIEF SHENOROCK, and five other Chiefs: Mawmatoe, Rawmaqua, Hownis, Razi and Pram (each with their totem marks), n.p. [Westchester County, New York], 12 November 1661. 1 page, oblong 4to, 175 x 195mm. (7 1/8 x 7 3/4 in.), top edge cut in scallop pattern, written in a clear English hand, separated along one horizontal fold with partial loss of one line of text, neatly silked, in a sunken mat with 3 engraved descriptions, glazed (with UV-40 plexiglas) in an oversized giltwood frame . Unexamined out of frame. A WESTCHESTER TRIBE SELLS LAND ON LONG ISLAND SOUND TO AN ENGLISH QUAKER SETTLER, 1661 An extremely early transaction, signed with totem marks by six Siwanoy chiefs, including Shenorock, or Shanorock, granting to an English settler, John Budd (d. 1669), a tract of land on the northern side of Long Island sound known as "Budd's Neck" or West Neck, situated between Stony Brook and the Mamaroneck River in between the present-day cities of Rye and Mamaroneck. The document reads: "Know all Men whome this may Concern that I Shanorock Rawmaquae Rackeatt Pawwaytahan Mawmatoe Howinse have bargained, Sold and Delivered unto John Budd a neck of Land bounded by a neck of Land he bought of me and other Indians...of [the] South and with Merremack River on the West and with marke[d] Trees to the north with Twenty miles for feeding Ground for Cattle with the woods Trees Manrodes Meadows and rivers and have received full Satisfaction in Coates and three Score faddom of wampom of Thomas Close for the said John's use and to engage my Self to Warrant if Sale thereof Against all men English Dutch and Indians and for the faithful perform hereof I have Sett my hand in the presence of Thomas Close and William Jones .." John Budd, an English Quaker, had first settled in New Haven then in Southhold, Long Island. In early 1661 he was one of the first Englishmen to buy and settle land in present-day Westchester County, across Long Island Sound and north of Dutch-held New Amsterdam; he purchased three tracts of land in this well-situated coastal area from the Siwanoy tribe. On 8 November, with partners from Greenwich, Connecticut, Budd's purchased a tract known to the Indians as Apanammis, on which he later built a grist-mill one of the first western structures in this area. Next, Budd purchased two islands off Mamaroneck, Hen and Pine Islands. For this, his third acquisition, the document records he paid the Siwanoy "coats" and 60 faddom (fathoms) of wampum. The Siwanoy, a coastal branch of the Algonqian tribe, were primarily fisherman; their lands ran from the Bronx to present-day Norwalk, Connecticut. Little is known of Chief Shenorock or Shanorock's, but his name survives as that of a northern Westchester township and the name of a country club. The present is an exceptionally early document for the area.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 275
Auktion:
Datum:
17.05.1996
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS, SIWANOY TRIBE]. Manuscript document signed by CHIEF SHENOROCK, and five other Chiefs: Mawmatoe, Rawmaqua, Hownis, Razi and Pram (each with their totem marks), n.p. [Westchester County, New York], 12 November 1661. 1 page, oblong 4to, 175 x 195mm. (7 1/8 x 7 3/4 in.), top edge cut in scallop pattern, written in a clear English hand, separated along one horizontal fold with partial loss of one line of text, neatly silked, in a sunken mat with 3 engraved descriptions, glazed (with UV-40 plexiglas) in an oversized giltwood frame . Unexamined out of frame. A WESTCHESTER TRIBE SELLS LAND ON LONG ISLAND SOUND TO AN ENGLISH QUAKER SETTLER, 1661 An extremely early transaction, signed with totem marks by six Siwanoy chiefs, including Shenorock, or Shanorock, granting to an English settler, John Budd (d. 1669), a tract of land on the northern side of Long Island sound known as "Budd's Neck" or West Neck, situated between Stony Brook and the Mamaroneck River in between the present-day cities of Rye and Mamaroneck. The document reads: "Know all Men whome this may Concern that I Shanorock Rawmaquae Rackeatt Pawwaytahan Mawmatoe Howinse have bargained, Sold and Delivered unto John Budd a neck of Land bounded by a neck of Land he bought of me and other Indians...of [the] South and with Merremack River on the West and with marke[d] Trees to the north with Twenty miles for feeding Ground for Cattle with the woods Trees Manrodes Meadows and rivers and have received full Satisfaction in Coates and three Score faddom of wampom of Thomas Close for the said John's use and to engage my Self to Warrant if Sale thereof Against all men English Dutch and Indians and for the faithful perform hereof I have Sett my hand in the presence of Thomas Close and William Jones .." John Budd, an English Quaker, had first settled in New Haven then in Southhold, Long Island. In early 1661 he was one of the first Englishmen to buy and settle land in present-day Westchester County, across Long Island Sound and north of Dutch-held New Amsterdam; he purchased three tracts of land in this well-situated coastal area from the Siwanoy tribe. On 8 November, with partners from Greenwich, Connecticut, Budd's purchased a tract known to the Indians as Apanammis, on which he later built a grist-mill one of the first western structures in this area. Next, Budd purchased two islands off Mamaroneck, Hen and Pine Islands. For this, his third acquisition, the document records he paid the Siwanoy "coats" and 60 faddom (fathoms) of wampum. The Siwanoy, a coastal branch of the Algonqian tribe, were primarily fisherman; their lands ran from the Bronx to present-day Norwalk, Connecticut. Little is known of Chief Shenorock or Shanorock's, but his name survives as that of a northern Westchester township and the name of a country club. The present is an exceptionally early document for the area.

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 275
Auktion:
Datum:
17.05.1996
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
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