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An abridged survey of the northernmost Common Way running east from the Willimantic River to Ashford, continuing through Ashford to Woodstock. Draft Edits - March, April & May 2024 (Fin)

A copy of John Chandler's 1705 Map of the Mohegan Sachems Hereditary Country from the Governor and Company of Connecticut and Moheagan Indians, By their Guardians, Certified Copy of Proceedings Before Commissioners of Review, 1743. Front-piece. Note that north is at the bottom. A Court of Election held at Hartford, May 8th, 1684 An accont of the Moeheagan Sachems native boundaries and royalties as appeares by severall Court records and by information and testimonies of sundry Indians,…

Town records, Town Clerk's vault (M. Palmer) The following is a slight digression intended to complement a couple of longer works-in-progress about overland travel in Colonial New England. The various primary sources included here hopefully provide some background on a methodology of working with documents from the early Colonial New England period. Working directly from the early records, in their own words, can help foster a narrative based on the content of the records rather than a…