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The imprisonment of Wampas brings us to one of the most interesting docu- ments which shed light upon his life.
It reads as follows:
"Trusty and wellbeloved, wee greet you well. Whereas wee have been humbly informed by the peticon of John Wampas als White that he was about six months since put into prison for a small debt, where he hath since remained to his utter ruine and that he hath a certain parcell of land in Massachusetts bay, the which he hath held for many years, having taken the Oaths of Allegiance & Supremacy5 as our subject, and having humbly besought us to interpose with you, that he may bee restored to his said lands, or have liberty to sell the same for his present reliefe and the payment of his debts, wee taking into our gracious consideration the misrabl condition of the pet'r have thought Fitt to recommend him to you that he may have justice done him and what favour the matter will fairly beare. And so we bid you farewell. Given At our Court att Whitehall the 22nd day of August 1676 in the 28th yeare of our reigne.
By his Maties comand Williamson."
That was a letter written by Charles II, King of England, to John Leverett, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony ten days after the death of King Philip. According to this letter Wampas must have been imprisoned about January 1675 when Philip's war was at its height.
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THE MARKS OF JOHN AND ANNE WAMPAS ON THE MORTGAGE OF 1668.
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INVENTORY OF THE ESTATE OF ANNE WAMPAS.
DEPOSITIONS OF WITNESSES TO THE DISPOSITION OF ANNE WAMPAS' PROPERTY.
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JOHN WAMPAS' WILL.
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Estono Governo Looks His Ma" Colony of Contient Chage - Date Strat For G 25th of Ing 1631 Thegiver to the petition of Richac) They're Dand Hairfow 250 g. LOB1.7 H 5-LO B) : The Poo. & Agists prefect doe Declare that they than a low ry farther all law fase acts of things for illing- irration of truth in this as in all other cases ) [ calling on orderly coming before them, such of to crank coppgy of estoul for their money & that all Lawful Testimony & which may clearthe truth . but for to sager straf by to draw line with in Tranchild with hat ord 22 on content of the Town we think nosate to town ages to this effect shay be sign flow vato change GOD & the " coneran gufile " Howpor iny 26. 2581. Godine waswprt & copen ga" Als.
INQUISITION INTO THE ESTATE OF ROMANOCK.
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MARK OF ROMANOCK.
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To the Honderd Governed Doek Court now Magistrated & Deputies now Sitting in the Ginor all Court at Beston. April 20. 9.668
The humble: Submision & subiaction of RENaline indian Sagent & people of Nipmure mihabiting within the Sound of the patterns of Massachusetts; and neure adivincing ouro the inglife townes sitter of mindam & mariborauf
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APPEAL OF THE INDIANS FOR PROTECTION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNOR.
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About four months after this letter was written and before it was delivered to the Governor, Wampas was released. Three men, at least, had befriended him in his misfortune: Anthony Mudd a house builder, and Nicholas Warner a tobacco cutter, both of London, and John Cole of Charlestown, a fellow seaman. It seems probable that these men had paid the debt for which Wampas was imprisoned. At any rate they had been instrumental in securing his freedom and out of gratitude for their assistance he gave to Mudd and to Warner's son John each a deed of 1000 acres of land at "Quansachamond Pond" and to Cole (or his heirs ) a deed of 300 acres in Bedford.
The deed to Mudd reads in part as follows:
To All People to whom these presents shall come, I John Wampas Als White of Boston in Massachusetts Bay in New England mariner, now resident in old England send greeting:
Know ye that I the said John Wampas als White as well for and in consideration of the great love tenderness & affection showed mee by Anthony Mud of Ratcliff in the Parish of Stepney als in the Coun of Midd in old England, house carpenter, while a pris- oner in old England and in getting my freedom from and out of prison, as also for divers other good and valuable causes & considerations mee hereunto especially moving, have given, granted, bargained sold & confirmed and in and by these presents do give, grant, bargain sell and confirme unto the said Anthony Mud one thousand acres of land in Massachusetts Bay aforesaid, to adjoyne to, and to be set off according to the custom of the country from Quansachamond Pond in Massachusetts Bay aforesaid southward", etc. The formal parts of the deed to Warner are similar to the corresponding parts in the deed to Mudd but the consideration is said to be:
"Ye kindness and maintenance I had and received from Nicholas Warner of Ratcliffe in the Coun. of Midd. tobacco cutter when a prisoner in or nere London as for the Loane of small sums of money borrowed of the said Nicholas Warner, without interest". Warner's one thousand acres were to be in "Quansacomack."
The deed to Cole was for service rendered by him to Wampas in England in the year 1675.6
In the spring of 1677 Wampas returned to Boston and brought the King's letter with him. He had been absent about a year and a half. During this time his wife had died and King Philip's war had almost annihilated his kinsmen. Most of the "Nipmuck Country" had become a vast solitude. With the exception of a few women, children and men too old for warfare, who huddled together at Hassanamisco, the red man had virtually disappeared.
Ann Wampas died in Boston in early September 1676 apparently from scalding. Joshua Hughes (Hues, Hews, Hewes) later one of the original pro- prietors of Sutton, was appointed administrator of her estate. The appointment was evidently made on the strength of three affidavits7 all sworn to before Gov- ernor John Leverett, September 28, 1676, one by Milcah Wright who was about 58 years of age, one by Sarah Ellis who was about 45 and one by Prudence Delany, who was about 18. The purport of these affidavits was that Ann had often expressed the wish that Hughes or his children should have whatever estate she might leave and that just before her death she had given the keyes of her house to Sarah Ellis to be delivered to Hughes.
Wright said:
"He has heard Anne Wampas say often in her life time and a little before she dyed, that what estate soever she had she would give to Mr. Hughes his children after her death for the love that their father had shown to her; for she said that Mr. Hughes if he would might have made her a slave all the days of her life."
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Sarah Ellis:
Above was true and added: "that in the time of her sickness she gave her the keys of her house to deliver unto Joshua Hughes which she did after she was dead."
Prudence Delany said :
"That about half an hour before Anne Wampas was scalded I heard her say that Joshua Hughes should have all the Estate she had when she dyed and that she wished she was worth a thousand pounds for his sake, he should have it every farthing."
Probably on the strength of these affidavits coupled perhaps with the feeling that John Wampas might never come back-Hughes took control of the Wampas home and when a few months later, John returned, he found Hughes in posses- sion. Although this property had been inventoried as a part of Anne's estate, it clearly belonged to her husband, who appears to have laid claim to it, for we find that on June 22, 1677 he quitclaimed his interest in "that house & land Scituate neere the trayning field in Boston" to Joshua Hews, Mary Lambe and Hannah Hews. The consideration for the deed is said to have been 20 pounds. (Book 10, Page 111). This settlement seems to have been not very favorable to Wampas for only a few months before this real estate had been officially ap- praised at 100 pounds.
The inventory of Anne's estate was made in great detail and is interesting.8 It is perhaps the only official inventory ever made of the estate of an Indian woman in Colonial days.
On August 16, 1677 while here, and giving his residence as Boston, he gave two mortgages, one to John Warner, the other to Benjamin Franklin (uncle of the great Benjamin). The one to Warner was for 18£ and 4 s., the one to Franklin for 10£. Both mortgages were to run for one month, each covered 4000 acres in a square (21/2 miles on a side) near Lake Quinsigamond and the interest charge on each was 5 shillings. Franklin's mortgage was at the rate of about 11/4 cents per acre. To borrow $50. for a month and give as security a mortgage on 4000 acres of land would today seem a little unusual.
About this time (Autumn of 1677) Wampas, his wife dead, his home lost, his kinsmen almost exterminated and he himself doubtless embittered by the treat- ment he had received upon his return from England, changed his home from Boston to Hassanamisco.
As a boy he had gone, with high hope we may assume, from the wigwam to the cottage to live among a superior race, far wiser and far better he had been told than his own. Now (after a bitter awakening), he goes back from the cottage to the wigwam to live among a remnant of his own kindred.
No act of Wampas' life has deeper meaning than this. But the change of resi- dence did not place him beyond the reach of the white man's greed.
In the spring of 1678 he went to Fairfield, Connecticut to take possession of a large tract of land there which he claimed to have inherited or acquired from his wife's father, who, as has been said, was the Mohegan Sachem, Romanock. The white settlers under the apparent leadership of Major Nathan Gould not only kept him out of possession of the land but also, in May of that year, put him in prison.
Late in 1678 (probably about as soon after his release from prison as he could get passage) he went back to England and once more sought aid of the
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King. In response to his appeal, the Privy Council, headed by the second Earl of Clarendon, sent a sharp letter to the Governor and Magistrates of Connecticut rebuking them for the treatment Wampas had received and demanding that justice be accorded him:
The letter reads as follows:
"After our hearty commendations-Whereas John Wampas alias White, has by Petition humbly represented unto his Majestie that he is by marriage of Ann the daughter of Romonock late Sachim of Aspatuk and Sasquanaugh,? upon the death of said Sachim, become sole proprietor of those tracts of land, where the town of Fairfield in the colony of Connecticott is built, that the petitioner's said father-in-law did, about nineteen years since deliver up the possession of the said lands to the petitioner who sometime after sold part thereof to Captain Denison, Amos Richardson and others of Connecticutt for the sum of three hundred and fifty pounds or thereabouts; and that by the evill practices of Major Nathan Gould and other inhabitants of Fairfield, he is not only kept out of his just rights, but was also imprisoned by them, in May last, when he went to demand possession of his estate; with all complaining of the great hardships and miseries he and other native Indians are subject unto by the laws of that colony. His Majesty taking into his gracious consideration the miserable condition of the Petitioner, and declaring his Royall pleasure that not only the Petitioner but all such Indians of New England as are his subjects and submit peaceably and quietly to his Majesties government, shall likewise participate of his Royall protection; wee do by his Majesties express commands signifie the same unto you requiring you to doe the Petitioner such justice as his case may deserve, and for the future to proceed in such manner as his Majestie's subjects may not be forced to undertake so long and dangerous voyages for obtaining justice, which his Majestie expects shall be speedily and impartially administered unto them upon the place and so not doubting of your ready complyance herein we bid you heartily farewell.
From the Council chamber in White Hall the 28th day of March, 1679.
Your loving Friends Clarendon Ailesbury John Nicholas Anglesey
J. Bridgewater Fancoubery J. Ernle
To our loving friends, the Governor and Majistrates of his Majasties colony of Connecticott, in New England".
It is probable that this letter brought no advantage to Wampas as he never returned to America. On the 19th of the following July, that is July 1679, while in London he gave to Edward Pratt, a victualler there, a deed of a tract of land containing about 40,000 acres. The deed purports to grant a "parcell", of land eight miles in length and eight like miles in breadth in the "Nepnone Country" near "Quonssuccomake pond", or whatever like "parcell" of land "belonging to me" said Pratt "shall think fitt to settle and plant". The deed states that this land was then in the possession or occupation of Wampas or his "assignes", describes Wampas as a Sachem, and gives his residence as "Asanamiscock in the Nipmuck Country". The price paid by Pratt was fifty pounds. On the 3rd of the following November this deed was recorded at Cambridge in Middlesex County. As the land was in Suffolk County the deed should, of course, have been recorded there.
About twenty-five years later a part of the territory covered by this deed became the township of Sutton and we shall return to this subject to tell how this result was brought about.
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Whether Wampas when he gave this deed was in good health and expected to return to America we do not know. It is clear, however, that when he went to England on this voyage he did intend to come back. But on the fifth of the following September he made his will10 (according to the English custom) in which he described himself as "sick and weak in body". Whether his condition was the result of injury, or of some short, violent disease like pneumonia, or of some lingering malady we do not know. It may be inferred from the will, however, that at some time while in London and probably during this illness he had been treated by a surgeon named Owen.
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