Pageant Exhibition Panel 09 - The Purchase of Land

Pageant Exhibition Panel 09 - The Purchase of Land

Land titles--Massachusetts--Lancaster; Deeds; Lancaster (Mass.)--History--1640-1660--Drama; Fourth of July celebrations--Massachusetts--Lancaster; Library exhibits--Massachusetts--Lancaster; Colonists--Massachusetts--Lancaster; Indians of North America--Massachusetts--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Native Americans; Indians of North America--Nashaway; Sholan; Nashacowam; Nashoonan; Prescott, James

Chief Sholan, or Nashacowam, of the Nashaway Indians leaning over to look at the deed to the land that makes up Lancaster during Episode 2, Settlement of Lancaster, in the Lancaster, Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant. The purchase of the eighty square miles that made up Lancaster took place sometime between 1643 and 1653. Local tradition says that part of the purchase price was a gallon of rum and two black bulls. Chief Sholan, played by William McLeod, is shown leaning over a table made from a split log while Ralph Houghton the Clerk of Writs, played by Edward L. Brockelmann, John Prescott, played by Rev. Abbott Peterson explain the deed to the land.











The photograph is mounted on heavy cardboard and has text describing the activity and history depicted in the photograph. The text for this image has been transcribed.

Pageant at Lancaster, Massachusetts, July 4, 1912. Settlement.





Purchase of Land.

Sears, Richard

Image is the ninth photograph in the Lancaster Massachusetts 1912 Fourth of July Pageant Exhibition created by the Thayer Memorial Library.

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1912-07-04

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From the archives at the Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, Massachusetts. http://thayermemoriallibrary.org

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