no law existing, which could empower any person to
sequester and set apart the lands of the Indians, or the law of 1693,
(if that of 1763 had expired,) was revived, by which the guardianship
again attached to the Indians. The Indians, it is believed, continued
to choose their own Overseers, under the charter of 1763, after it
had expired, and without any authority to do so. It was the only
government they had during the troubles of the revolution.

We now come to the first evidence of any thing relating to the
parsonage land being set apart from the common land. This was in 1783,
and the following is the Deed from the Records of Barnstable County,
and the only deed relating to this property.

DEED OF MARSHPEE PARSONAGE.

_Know all Men by these Presents_, That we, Lot Nye, Matthias
Amos, Moses Pognet, Selectmen, and Israel Halfday, Joseph Amos
and Eben Dives, of the district of Marshpee, _for the support
of the Gospel in said Marshpee in all future generations,
according to the discipline and worship of the Church in
this place, which is Congregational_, do allot, lay out,
and _sequester_ forever, a certain tract of land, being four
hundred acres more or less, lying within the Plantation of
Marshpee, and _being Indian property_, which is to lay as a
parsonage forever and to be _improved and used for the sole
purpose aforesaid_; and the said tract or parcel of land for
the said Parsonage, is situated on the East side of Marshpee
river, and bounded as follows, viz: Beginning at a certain
spring of fresh water which issues from the head a small
lagoon on the East side of Marshpee river aforesaid, and runs
into said river a small distance below, and South of the spot
where negro Scipio and his wife Jemimai had their house, which
is now removed, and from thence running due East into the land
until it comes to the great road which leads into Marshpee
Neck, so called, and from thence Northwardly bearing Eastward
as the said road runs, until it comes to the great road,
which is the common road from Barnstable to Falmouth, and then
bounded by the last mentioned road Northwardly, and running
Westwardly until it comes to Ashir's road, then crossing
Falmouth road and running in Ashir's path till it comes
to Marshpee river aforesaid, and then upon the said river
Southwardly, and on the East side, until it comes to th