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- and forever defend, by these presents. In witness whereof, the said Pathungo 

 ./hath set his hand and seal this day and year first above written. 



Pathungo, his marke. 

 Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of us, Charles Morgan, his marke, 

 Nicolas Haight and James Clement. Moreover, before signing and sealing here- 

 of, the said Pathungo doth reserve, liberty for his use, such whitewood trees as 

 shall be found suitable to make canoes of. This may certify any whom it may 

 concern, that on the first day of Feburary, 1695-6, appeared before me, Thomas 

 Willett, Esq., one of his Majesties' justices for the province of New York, 

 Pathungo, the within mentioned Indian who did then and there acknowledge 

 the within conveyance or deed of sale to be his free and voluntary act and deed, 

 as witness my hand. Thomas Willet. 



This may certify whom it may concern, that we Indians, whose names are 

 now underwritten, do own to have received full satisfaction of the within men- 

 tioned John Harrison for all the within mentioned tract of land being butted and 

 bounded as within specified. As witness hereof, we have hereunto set our hands 

 and seals this 15th day of February, in the year of our Lord God 1695-6. 



Betty Pathungo, her marke, 



Pathungo Wappatoe his marke, 



Elias Jozes Pathungo Askamme, her marke, 



Cheishoam Pathungo, her marke, 



Poeige, his marke. 



Elaas Aeowash,, Aeawaska's wifes, Hannah, her marke, Ingen. 

 Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of James Mott, Samuel Palmee, 

 Joseph Hoeton, the marke of Akabaska.* 



The white-wood trees, referred to in the above deed by the sachem 

 Pathung, are the Liriodendron tuhpifera of Linnaeus, from the trunk of 

 which the Indians manufactured their canoes j hence it was commonly 

 called by them "canoe wood." 



" Whoever (remarks Mr. Downing) has once seen the tulip tree in a 

 situation where the soil was favorable to its free growth, can never for- 

 get it ; with a clean trunk, straight as a column for forty or fifty feet, sur- 

 mounted by a fine ample summit of rich green foliage. It is, in our 

 estimation, decidedly the most stately tree in North America. When 

 standing alone, and encouraged in its lateral growth, it will indeed often 

 produce a lower head — but its tendency is to rise; and it only exhibits it- 

 self in all its stateliness and majesty, when, supported on such a noble 

 columnar trunk, it towers far above the heads of its neighbors of the 

 park or forest. Even when at its loftiest elevation, its large specious 

 blossoms — which, from their form, one of our poets has likened to a 



chalice — 



"Through the verdant maize. 



The tulip tree 

 Its golden chalice oft triumphantly displays — Pickering. 



a Indian deeds warrants of survey, Albany Rec. Lib. i. 4. 



