Join a multidisciplinary discussion spanning Indigenous histories and land evidence in Colonial New England to Progressive Era politics with an 1896 paper from Salve Special Collections on the authenticity of the 1638 deed to Moshassuck, which would become the site of Providence. Read before the Rhode Island Historical Society, George Paine used legal evidence and primary sources to examine the document signed by Sachems Canonicus and Miantonomi that conveyed the land rights to the English colonizer.

Featuring: 

Heather Rockwell, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Cultural and Historic Preservation, Department of Cultural, Environmental, and Global Studies

Jeroen van den Hurk, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Cultural and Historic Preservation, Department of Cultural, Environmental, and Global Studies

William Leeman, Ph.D., Professor of History, Department of History

Liza Tietjen, M.L.I.S., University Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, McKillop Library