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quah,* being at the East end of Nantucket, for and in 

 consideration of five pounds to be paid to me in Eng- 

 lish, goods, or otherwise to my content, by the said 

 Tristram Coffin aforesaid at convenient time as shall 

 be demanded. 

 Witness my hand or mark this 22 of June, 1662. 



Wanackmamak. 



Witness hereto, Peter Folger and Wawinnesit whose 

 English name is Amos. 



Indian Deed of Nantucket. 

 (From Mr. Hough's book compiled from records in the Secretary of 

 State's office, Albany, N. Y.) 



Recorded for Mr. Tristram Coffin and Mr. Thomas 

 Macy, y° 29th of June, 1671, aforesaid. 



These P'sents Wittness, y* I Wanackmamack, Head 

 Sachem of y e Island of Nantuckett, have Bargained 

 and sold, and doe by these Presents Bargaine and Sell 

 unto Tristram Coffin, Thomas Macy, Rich d Swayne, 

 Thomas Bernard, John Swayne, Mr. Thomas May- 

 hew, Edward Starbuck, Peter Coffin, James Coffin, 

 Stephen Greenleafe, Tristram Coffin Jun r , Thomas 

 Coleman, Robert Bernard, Christopher Hussey, Robert 

 Pyke, John Smyth, and John Bishop, these Islands of 

 Nantuckett, namely, all y e West end of y e afores d Isl- 

 and unto j 9 Pond comonly called Waquittaquay, and 

 from y e Head of that Pond to y e North side of y e Isl- 

 and Manamoy; Bounded by a Path from y e Head of 

 y a Pond aforesaid to Manamoy; as also a Neck at y a 

 East End of y e Island called Poquomock, f w to the 



* Pocomo. (? ) t Pocomo. 



