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MOHAWK DEED TO LAND AT FORT HUNTER, NEW YORK – Manuscript document signed by eight Mohawk leaders with their pictograph signatures, (identified as "Craine", "Sancler ye Indian", "Asras", "Tequoinhunt", "Joharis ye Indian", "Cornelius Ind.", and "Kawinadichtow"), "In the Mohaughs Cuntry," 14 May 1716.
Three pages, 302 x 183mm, (weak and separated folds reinforced with 19th century lined paper bearing pencil notes, light toning).
An early deed for land granted to the commander of Fort Hunter, which had been built at the request of the Mohawk ambassadors to Queen Anne. The transaction, which took place four years after the construction of Fort Hunter, situated on the banks of the Mohawk River at the mouth of the Schoharie Creek, in which eight Mohawk tribesmen gave a tract of land "unto Rebekea," the daughter of Captain John Scott (d. 1725), the first commander of Fort Hunter. The Mohawks granted the land only "in Consideration of the Great love, favour & affection which we have and do bear toward our great friend And Loving Acquaintance Capt John Scott." The land in question was located “opposite Over Against the Land we have given to the Wife of Capt John Colins and her son”.
Queen Anne had ordered the construction of Fort Hunter at the request of Hendrick Tejonihokarawa, one of the four "Mohawk Kings" who travelled to London in 1710, to counter French Catholic influence over the Iroquois Confederacy. The fort included a small Anglican chapel within, serving as a religious mission to the Mohawks. In return for the protection of the fort and the benefit of the Anglican mission, Queen Anne asked Tejonihokarawa to help settle Palatine German refugees fleeting religious conflict in Europe. The settlers provided an important buffer between the Iroquois, as well as the French and the English.
Three pages, 302 x 183mm, (weak and separated folds reinforced with 19th century lined paper bearing pencil notes, light toning).
An early deed for land granted to the commander of Fort Hunter, which had been built at the request of the Mohawk ambassadors to Queen Anne. The transaction, which took place four years after the construction of Fort Hunter, situated on the banks of the Mohawk River at the mouth of the Schoharie Creek, in which eight Mohawk tribesmen gave a tract of land "unto Rebekea," the daughter of Captain John Scott (d. 1725), the first commander of Fort Hunter. The Mohawks granted the land only "in Consideration of the Great love, favour & affection which we have and do bear toward our great friend And Loving Acquaintance Capt John Scott." The land in question was located “opposite Over Against the Land we have given to the Wife of Capt John Colins and her son”.
Queen Anne had ordered the construction of Fort Hunter at the request of Hendrick Tejonihokarawa, one of the four "Mohawk Kings" who travelled to London in 1710, to counter French Catholic influence over the Iroquois Confederacy. The fort included a small Anglican chapel within, serving as a religious mission to the Mohawks. In return for the protection of the fort and the benefit of the Anglican mission, Queen Anne asked Tejonihokarawa to help settle Palatine German refugees fleeting religious conflict in Europe. The settlers provided an important buffer between the Iroquois, as well as the French and the English.