Fall River Indian Reservation1907 - 100 pages |
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128 Rods originally aforesaid appointed Assignes forever Awashonks belonging Benj Benja Church Benjamin Church Bound Church his heires city of Fall claim Committee Contains 6 acres conveyed corn Council County of Bristoll Court Crank Daniel Wilcox Danzell deed English F. R. Cop Fall River Indians fee simple Freemen's Purchase Freetown Government Governor Guardian heires & assignes Hubart Indian lands Indian Plantation Indian Reservation Israel Hubard James Church John John Milton Earle Jonathan Dodson Joseph Dudley King Philip Land & premises Lathum Clarke Left No Posterity legislature Little Compton lots Lott Contains Mass Massachusetts Bay Massasoit Mitchell North Watuppa Pond payd petition Plymouth Colony Pocasset Purchase Pokanokets Province of Massachusetts Rods originally laid sachem sd Province sell settlement severalty sold Taunton River thereof Tiverton town tract of land Troy Indians twenty unto Wampanoags water supply Winslow wood Zurviah G
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Page 8 - In the establishment of these relations the rights of the original inhabitants were in no instance entirely disregarded, but were necessarily to a considerable extent impaired. They were admitted to be the rightful occupants of the soil, with a legal as well as just claim to retain possession of it and to use it according to their own discretion...
Page 8 - On the discovery of this immense continent, the great nations of Europe were eager to appropriate to themselves so much of it as they could respectively acquire. Its vast extent offered an ample field to the ambition and enterprise of all; and the character and religion...
Page 9 - While the different nations of Europe respected the right of the natives, as occupants, they asserted the ultimate dominion to be in themselves ; and claimed and exercised as a consequence of this ultimate dominion, a power to grant the soil, while yet in possession of the natives. These grants have been understood by all to convey a title to the grantees, subject only to the Indian right of occupancy.
Page 14 - All Indians and people of color, heretofore known and called Indians, within this Commonwealth, are hereby made and declared to be citizens of the Commonwealth, and entitled to all the rights, privileges and immunities, and subject to all the duties and liabilities to which citizens of this Commonwealth are entitled or subject.
Page 14 - And whenever the public exigencies require, that the property of any individual should be appropriated to public uses, he shall receive a reasonable compensation therefor.
Page 9 - Following the policy of the European governments in the discovery of America towards the Indians who were found here, the colonies before the Revolution and the 'States and the United States since, have recognized in the Indians a possessory right to the soil over which they roamed and hunted and established occasional vtllages.
Page 46 - Vineyard gentlemen, amusing anecdotes of Indian rulers. The following warrant is recollected, which was issued by one of those magistrates directed to an Indian Constable, and will not suffer in comparison with our more verbose forms. I Hihoudi, You Peter Waterman, Jeremy Wicket; Quick you take him, Fast you hold him, Straight you bring him, Before me, Hihoudi.
Page 12 - we know of no authority by which a grant declared to be for a special purpose, without other words, can be held to be a condition. On the contrary, it has always been held that such a grant does not convey a conditional estate unless coupled with a clause for the payment of money or the doing of some act by the grantee, on which the grant is clearly made to depend.
Page 40 - Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character, than the native warrior of North America. In war, he is daring, boastful, cunning, ruthless, self-denying, and selfdevoted ; in peace, just, generous, hospitable, revengeful, superstitious, modest, and commonly chaste. These are qualities, it is true, which do not distinguish all alike ; but they are so far the predominating traits of these remarkable people, as to be characteristic.
Page 9 - They were, and always have been, regarded as having a semiindependent position when they preserved their tribal relations; not as States, not as nations, not as possessed of the full attributes of sovereignty, but as a separate people, with the power of regulating their internal and social relations, and Opinion of the Court.