The Indian Land Titles of Essex County, Massachusetts
The Indian Land Titles of Essex County, Massachusetts
Perley, Sidney, 1858-1928
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[ 18 ] [ 19] general letter of the company, dated at London, May 28, 1629. ' March 4, 1633-34, at a court held at Boston, it was "ordered, that noe pson whatsoeuer shall buy any land of any Indian without leave from Court. "' These laws were passed for the protection of the Indians, by securing them from deceit and imposition, and to enable the government to avail itself of the full benefit of the grant from the crown to themselves and their grantees, by giving them the exclusive priv- ilege of... extinguishing or acquiring the Indians' right of occupancy. It was not a title to be acquired by grant in lands in which the Indians' right had once been extinguished that the English were prohibited from purchasing. If a township had been granted and settled, and the aboriginal right extinguished, it was not the intent of the general court to prevent an Indian acquiring and transmitting title like any settler. * The policy of the colonial government always was to treat the Indians fairly. It was discussed by the general court, and, finally, October 19, 1652, it was ordered, that, being " willing that there may be a free passage of justice for their right amongst us, " as well as for the English, and affirmed that what lands the natives have by possession or improvement, by sub- duing the same, they have just right unto; that if they ' Records of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Boston, 1853, volume I, page 400.
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