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@watrous_c_wakeslee:person {full_name: "Watrous C. Wakeslee", role: "Overseer of Turkey Hill Indians"}
@connecticut_state_library:organization {type: "State Library"}
@derby_connecticut:place {state: @connecticut, country: @united_states}
@new_haven_connecticut:place {state: @connecticut, country: @united_states}
@new_haven_superior_court:organization {type: "Superior Court", location: @new_haven_connecticut}
@roswell_moses:person {full_name: "Roswell Moses"}
@elisa_franklin:person {full_name: "Elisa Franklin"}
@lavinia_breckinridge:person {full_name: "Lavinia Breckinridge"}
@elizabeth_moses:person {full_name: "Elizabeth Moses"}
@georgiana_moses:person {full_name: "Georgiana Moses"}
@sydney_h_downs:person {full_name: "Sydney H. Downs"}
@turkey_hill_land:place {description: "Land in Derby owned by Turkey Hill Indians"}
@derby_savings_bank:organization {name: "Derby Savings Bank", location: @derby_connecticut}
@sale_transaction:event {date: @date_1871_05, amount: 1000, currency: "USD", buyer: @sydney_h_downs, seller: @watrous_c_wakeslee, property: @turkey_hill_land, expenses: 40, investment_total: 960, investment_breakdown: {real_estate_new_haven: 600, savings_bank_derby: 240}}
@pinax_collection:document {title: "Moses vs. Turkey Hill Indigenous Case Sale Report and Accounting", creator: @watrous_c_wakeslee, institution: @connecticut_state_library, created: @date_1871_09_19, language: "en", subjects: ["Indigenous cases","Land sale","Financial accounting","New Haven County Superior Court","Turkey Hill Indians"], description: "Collection of documents related to the sale of land by Watrous C. Wakeslee, overseer of the Turkey Hill Indians, as part of a court case involving Roswell Moses and other members of the tribe.", places: [@derby_connecticut, @new_haven_connecticut]}
@moses_vs_turkey_hill:event {description: "Legal case concerning sale of land by Watrous C. Wakeslee as overseer of Turkey Hill Indians", date: @date_1871_09_20, location: @new_haven_superior_court, parties: [@watrous_c_wakeslee, @roswell_moses, @elisa_franklin, @lavinia_breckinridge, @elizabeth_moses, @georgiana_moses]}
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@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_indigenouscases_mosesvsturkeyhill_b_012_jpg -> depicts -> @watrous_c_wakeslee:person {role: "Overseer"} {date: @date_1871_09_20}
@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_indigenouscases_mosesvsturkeyhill_b_014_jpg -> contains -> @sale_transaction:event {excerpt: "sale of land for $1,000, expenses $40, investment $960"} {date: @date_1871_05}
@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_indigenouscases_mosesvsturkeyhill_b_015_jpg -> contains -> @sale_transaction:event {excerpt: "$600 invested in New Haven real estate"} {date: @date_1871_09_19}
@file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_indigenouscases_mosesvsturkeyhill_b_013_jpg -> reports -> @moses_vs_turkey_hill:event {date: @date_1871_09_20}Furman Hill Indians Report of Chalivous C. Watalee Overseer Sept. 20, 1871 Returned to Court & Filed Othoway Club Recorded Vol. 27, Page 138
To the Honorable Superior Court now in session in New Haven within and for the county of New Haven at its September term A.D. 1871, the undersigned Watrous C Wakelee of Derby in said county of New Haven beg leave to report that at the May term of said Court A.D. 1871, held at New Haven in and for the county of New Haven, the said Watrous C Wakelee was authorized and empowered, as the overseer of a tribe of Indians located in said Derby, also known as the Turkey Hill Indians, to sell a certain piece of land and real estate situated in said Derby, and fully described in the petition of Roswell Moses, Elisa Franklin, Lavinia Breckinridge, Elizabeth Moses, and Georgiana Moses, members of said tribe of Indians, and brought to said May term of the Superior Court now on file on the records of said Superior Court, that pursuant to an order and decree of said Superior Court passed at the May session thereof 1871, upon the aforesaid petition, he the said Watrous C Wakelee, sold the property
and real estate described in said petition and decree, on the day of May A.D. 1871, to Sydney H. Downs of said Derby for the price and sum of one thousand dollars, which sum was then and there paid by the undersigned by said Downs. That the said sum of one thousand dollars was the best price which the undersigned, after due effort made could obtain for said land, that the expenses of said sale including the costs of said petition, decree and counsel fees, amounted to the sum of Forty Dollars, which said expenses were paid by the undersigned out of said sum of one thousand dollars received as appraised; that he has invested the proceeds of said sale to wit the sum of Nine Hundred and Sixty Dollars as follows: to wit Seven hundred and twenty dollars of said sum are placed in the Derby Savings bank in Birmingham in said Derby at interest—the remaining two hundred and forty dollars of said Nine Hundred
$600 are invested in real estate situated in the City of New Haven; said investment in real estate being the purchase of an unencumbered lot of land situated as aforesaid by Warranty deed duly recorded on the Land records of said town of New Haven—all of which is respectfully submitted. Dated at Derby this 19th day of September A.D. 1871. Watrous C. Wakeslee
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