Reading the Hadley Deed of 1660: A Primary Source Excursion
Speaker:
Alice Nash, Associate Professor of History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date:
Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 7 pm via Zoom
Details:
This public talk will be presented via Zoom.  Admission is a sliding scale: $0 to $20.
A Map of New-England from William Hubbard’s Narratives of the Troubles with Indians . . . (Boston, 1677).
Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library
“Indian deeds” are English documents that record land transactions between English colonists and Indigenous peoples in New England. They can be problematic and difficult to read, but they are also an extraordinary source of insight and information. In this interactive workshop, Professor Nash will analyze the Hadley deed of 1660 and then examine it in relation to John Pynchon’s fur trade account books of 1659 and 1660.  Read together, these two documents draw a clearer picture of the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the English.

When you register for the workshop, we will email the documents to you. Participants who read them in advance will get the most out of the discussion.
Dr. Alice Nash
Professor Alice Nash teaches Native American history at UMass Amherst.  She co-edited The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas (Routledge 2019) and has published numerous articles on northeastern Native American history including three in French translation in the leading Quebec journal Recherches amérindiennes au Québec. In 2003-2004 Nash held the first Fulbright-Université de Montréal Distinguished Chair, teaching a course on the Deerfield Raid of 1704 to Canadian students and bringing them to Deerfield for the Tercentenary of the Raid on February 29, 2004. With Christoph Strobel, she co-authored Daily Life of Native Americans from Post-Columbian through Nineteenth Century America (Greenwood, 2006).  Nash is the recipient of four grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019) to co-direct Summer Institutes for Teachers on teaching Native American histories in collaboration with Five Colleges Incorporated. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Map Citation: A Map of New-England from William Hubbard’s Narratives of the Troubles with Indians . . . (Boston, 1677). Map reproduction courtesy of the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library.