I will give a copy of some of the Indian lands owned and occupied by them before the landing of the Pilgrims, showing that our fathers were not the robbers and grabbers of land commonly supposed.
   "1674   Winslow Govr   [Plymouth Colony Records.]
   "Know all men by these prsents that I Quachattasett Sachem of Mannomett doe acknowlidge my selfe fully satisfyed and payed therewith for and in consideration of a certaine tract or prsell of land sold by mee the aforesaid Quachattasett unto the aforesaid Will Hedge the which tract of land lyeth att a place by the English the blacke banke near unto break hart hill but called by Indians 'Monechehan.'   (Then follows a long description of boundary from top of hill to a certain pond, etc., etc., which I will not farther relate.)   In witness whereof I the aforesaid Quachattasett have hereunto sett my hand and seale this sixt day of Aprill in the yeare one thousand six hundred seaventy and four.
   "The Mark of Quachattasett         (here)
                          "and a                   (seal)
Signed, Sealed and delivered
in the prsence off
Richard Bourne
Sherjasrubb Bourne

(This deed was acknowledged
by Quachattasett the 4th of the
4th Month 1674 before mee    
John Alden, Assistant."