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Wunnaumwayean: Roger Williams, English credibility, and the colonial land market.(Critical essay)
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In early 1638, John Winthrop wrote to Roger Williams requesting information concerning a series of recent land sales by Narragansett sachems to Antinomian settlers in Narragansett Bay. Writing back, Williams confirmed sales on two islands, reporting that a party led by William Coddington had claimed ownership of a tract of land on the north shore of the Isle of Aquidneck. However, even as Williams charted in detail the extension of an English presence into the bay, he suggested limits to the use of English documentary systems for describing exchanges that established ownership of ...
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