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Evidence
Suffolk Deeds IV - Quinapaug (Providence-jurisdiction) tract, no Gurney in the recorded deeds
Suffolk Deeds Liber IV records the Quinapaug tract: Joshua Foote bought 4,000 acres 'att Quinapaug within ye Jurisdiction of Providence' from the Indians Sacont and George Sacount by deed of 18 June 1655; by 1660 it passed to William Hudson, who sold it in 500-acre parcels to Boston men. No Gurney appears among the recorded Quinapaug parcels.
Date: 1655-1660
Why this conclusion
- Supports Finding Finding: Quinapaug line = unrecorded Providence-jurisdiction frontier shareThe Suffolk Deeds Quinapaug conveyances locate the tract in the Providence jurisdiction and show no recorded Gurney parcel, grounding the unrecorded-share reading of the estate line.
Sources
- FamilySearch Full-Text Search, AI-transcribed manuscript image collections (deeds, probate, parish and borough records)., Suffolk Deeds Lib. IV pp. 270-271 read via FamilySearch full-text images, film 007442495, image 191 (Hudson to Button; recites Foote's 18 June 1655 Indian purchase and the 1660 conveyance to Hudson)
- Temple, Thomas F., Register of Deeds. Suffolk Deeds. Liber IV. Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, City Printers, 1888., Suffolk Deeds. Liber IV (printed, 1888), pp. 268, 270-271
Topic file location: Colonial frontier rights
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000028 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
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This is one research item from the John Gurney research graph; the fuller narrative treatment is in the linked topic above and the research library.