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Finding
Finding: Quinapaug line = unrecorded Providence-jurisdiction frontier share
The 1663 inventory's 'estate layd out in land at Quinapaug wch we know not' is best read as an unrecorded right or share in the Providence-jurisdiction Quinapaug land speculation (Foote to Hudson to Boston men) - an unvalued frontier proprietary interest, not appraised Braintree real estate.
Why this conclusion
- Supported by Evidence Suffolk Deeds IV - Quinapaug (Providence-jurisdiction) tract, no Gurney in the recorded deedsThe 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.
- Supported by Evidence SPR #338 - the 1663 'Quinapaug wch we know not' estate lineThe inventory's 'Quinapaug wch we know not' line is the primary evidence for the unvalued frontier interest.
- Synthesized by Analysis Analysis: proprietary right, not residence (the 1659-1663 frontier pattern)The unvalued Quinapaug interest is the third leg of the frontier-rights pattern.
Related context
- Context from Analysis Analysis: an all-movable estate with no valued real estateFraming the estate as otherwise all personalty makes the lone unvalued Quinapaug land line (frontier-rights) legible as the single land asset the appraisers could not price.
- Context from Negative result Negative: Early Providence records hold no Gurney; bounds the Quinapaug interestCross-unit: the silent Providence records bound John's unrecorded Quinapaug (Providence-jurisdiction) frontier share.
Topic file location: Colonial frontier rights
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000030 - 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.