(AMERICAN INDIANS) Early copy of Metacomets 1664 confirmatio

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(AMERICAN INDIANS.) Early copy of Metacomet's 1664 confirmation of the Taunton grant. Manuscript copy in a 17th-century clerical hand, 6 x 14 inches; early folds, minor wear. Taunton and Bristol, MA, 1 April 1697

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In 1638, the Wampanoag chief Metacomet, also known as King Philip, granted English settlers the rights to a new Massachusetts town named Taunton. In 1664, he confirmed that grant with a document bearing his signature, witnessed by his interpreter John Sassoman. The present copy of this important document was prepared in 1696 by the Taunton town clerk, and then certified as an accurate copy by the Bristol County clerk in 1697. It bears secretarial copies of the marks of King Philip and two other Wampanoags.