Nabowhee his marke and seal
Wangunk. Their homelands in and around so-called “Wethersfield, Connecticut,” and south along the Kwinitekw or Connecticut River.
This document addresses land at present-day Weathersfield, Connecticut, formerly, and perhaps still known by Algonquian-speaking people as Poquioag. The document suggests that it is to serve as an official and legal agreement between settlers and the Wangunk and others, to “prevent future troubles'' because the “Lands as aforesaid hath Been quietly Possessed by the English Now for Severall years passt, but in as much as there is no written deed to be found under the Hand of the Said Sowheag”. Sowheag, the document says, previously granted settlers access to Poquioag, now Weathersfield, for “12 yards of trading cloath.”
Deed signed December 25, 1671. The version pictured here seems to be a copy of the original, seen at the Newberry Library.