An Interactive Workshop by Alice Nash, Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst

“Indian deeds” are English documents that record land transactions between English colonists and Indigenous peoples in New England. They can be problematic and difficult to read, but they are also an extraordinary source of insight and information. In this interactive workshop, Professor Nash will analyze the Hadley deed of 1660 and then examine it in relation to John Pynchon’s fur trade account books of 1659 and 1660.  Read together, these two documents draw a clearer picture of the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the English.

After you register for the workshop, we will email the documents to you. Participants who read them in advance will get the most out of the discussion.