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The Whitney Family of Connecticut
by S. Whitney Phoenix
(New York: 1878)
Transcribed by Robert L. Ward.
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yards of Trucking Cloth, twenty pounds of powder, twenty dutch hatchets, twenty dutch howes, twenty dutch knives, Ten shirts, too hundred of mixes, fiue paire of handson stockings, one good dutch hatt, and a great faire Looking glas; and for Checanoe for his wages and going to marke out the Lands shall have for himselfe one coat fower pownd of povdar, six pound of led, one dutch hatchet as alsoe seventeen shillings in Wampum, they must send by Checanoe which being punctually paid then shall I delivar this deed which shall be for the ffree and qviet possession of them and their heaires for ever and In the mene time it shall remaine in the hands of Lyon Gardon in witness where of we have hereunto seet our hands the day above written.
Witnes
RICHARD BRUSH
AMBRES SUTEN
Huntington. Receaued this 23 of May 1659 from the Inhabitants of Huntington fful satisfaction and payment for the medow I sould Last to them which my man Chachenow marked out for them which Joynes to that neecke that Belongs to Mr. Stickland and Jonas wood and soe goes Westward soe ffar as Chakenew hath marked being purchesed In Agust Last which was 1658.
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Witnes
CHEKENEW [Mark] his marke
SASAKETAWUH [Mark} his marke
The marke of
AMBRAS [Mark] SUTTEN
The mark of
RICHARD [Mark] BRUSH
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Sacham
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While at Huntington, he build a grist mill, or "corne mmill," for Rev. William Leverich, of that place, which led to some disagreement; Leverich asserting that the mill was not finished in season, nor in the way that the contract required, and Whitney that his pay had been unjustly withheld form him. He seems also to have been a leader in the movement which resulted in the dismissal of Mr. Leverich, as minister of Huntington; and these causes led to several suits between the parties. Not much of the testimony is recorded; but before leaving the town, Mr. Leverich obtained permission of the court to put on record three long depositions signed by himself, his wife, and his son, giving their version of the causes which led to his dismissal. Some persons who have read these depositions, have inferred that Henry Whitney had preached for the people of Huntington, before Mr. Leverich was employed, and some of the testimony seems to harmonize with this supposition. The evidence shows that he was a frank outspoken man -- once fined for speaking his mind too freely before the Court -- but when a charge was true, he would acknowledge it, without waiting for proof from his opponent. His differences with Mr. Leverich
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