A Briefe and True Account of the Trade in Metaphors, 1649 & 1652¹

I refer you back to said agreed price:
             7 Coats, a yd and ½ in a coat 9 Hatchets 8 Hoes 20 Knives 4 Moose Skins & 16 yds and a ½ of Cotton. For, the which tract, all woods, underwoods lands meadows rivers brooks rivulets, &c. (yes, even the rivulets) & to include the rare Atlantic white cedar swamp. Comprised of: 49 miles square from the weir at Satucket 7 miles due east 7 miles due west 7 miles due north 7 miles due south (from said weir). Given, granted, enfeoffed, sold to Standish, Nash, & Southworth by the paramount sachem of the Wampanoag, Ousamequin, who made his X here on the Deed of Ancient and Original Bridgewater, 1649, where
word by word acre by acre mark by mark
roots were ripped people removed cattle unbound.

I refer you back to said agreed price:
30 yds of Cloth 8 Moose Skins 15 Axes 15 Hoes 15 Paire of Breeches 8 Blankets 2 Kittles a Cloake £2 in Wampum 8 Paire of Stockens 8 Paire of Shoes 1 Iron Pott & 10 shilling in another comoditie for the 1652 Purchase of Old Dartmouth                         $35,000 in 17th C. value                         180 miles square of prime acreage, harbor & coastline                         (now New Bedford & surrounds). Sold to Standish, Southworth, (the very same) & Cooke by Wamsutta, son of Ousamequin (requiescat in pace),              who made his     X     here. All legal, consensual, without coercion (so it is said). Where

stumps of rare Atlantic white cedar

                                                deeded & cleared, became burnt tongues on paper

underwritten by warre

punctuated by blood, here,    X    (not a metaphor).

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