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they contrived to keep the said Jethro close, until they 

 could send some good committee to find out by our old 

 Indians, whether they ever knew or heard of the said 

 Nicornoose having such a son gone, and they soon 

 found out by the old Indians that he had, but they had 

 not heard what was become of him. So they soon 

 found they should lose all they had bought of the said 

 Spotsors; then they held a parley with the said Jethro, 

 and agreed to buy all his right, title, and property that 

 he owned on said island, as appears on our records. 

 And the said Nicornoose gave deeds to his two bas- 

 tard sons, Paul and Wat Noose, forty acres each, a lit- 

 tle to the eastward of Podpis village. 



The first Sachem at the southwest part of said isl- 

 and, his bounds were at the said Weweder Ponds, 

 and from thence to the northward to a place called 

 Gunsue meadow at Monemoy,* where we now call 

 New Town, and from thence westward along to the 

 southward of the hills called Popsquatchet Hills, where 

 our three mills now stand, and so to the west sea called 

 Tawtemeo, which we call the Hummock Pond. And 

 his name was Autapscot. Next to him was his son 

 called Harry Poritain. Next to him was Peter Mau- 

 sauquit. Next to him was Isaac Peter. Next to him 

 was lame Isaac, of whom we bought the last and all 

 that Sachem right; and their habitation was Moyau- 

 comet, which signifies a meeting place, and their 

 meeting house they call Moyaucomor. And the said 

 Autapscot was called a great warrior, and got his land 

 by his bow. 



* That part of the town in which is now eirfbraced Cousue, 

 Poverty Point, and the Goose Pond. 



