Annals of the Sinnott, Rogers, Coffin, Corlies, Reeves, Bodine and allied families . Manor were granted by Governor Francis Lovelace toMr. Mayhew, t and on the same day he was made governor over the Englishand Indians of Marthas Vineyard and the Elizabeth Isles. § With his commission as chief executive, special instructions were issuedto Governor Mayhew which, when considered in the light of after events, were of a most timely character. You are to cause,directs Governor Lovelace, a general meeting to be sum-moned of the inhabitants (among which I would not havethe chief of the Indians omitted
Annals of the Sinnott, Rogers, Coffin, Corlies, Reeves, Bodine and allied families . Manor were granted by Governor Francis Lovelace toMr. Mayhew, t and on the same day he was made governor over the Englishand Indians of Marthas Vineyard and the Elizabeth Isles. § With his commission as chief executive, special instructions were issuedto Governor Mayhew which, when considered in the light of after events, were of a most timely character. You are to cause,directs Governor Lovelace, a general meeting to be sum-moned of the inhabitants (among which I would not havethe chief of the Indians omitted), to whom you are to declarethe end of your being with me, and the power I have investedin you, by causing your commission to be read publickly,Seal of Marthas Vine- together witli your instructions. y^^ You are to cause some of the principal sachems to repair, as speedily as they can, to me that so they may pay their homage toHis Majesty, and acknowledge his Royal Highness to be their only lord pro-prietor. You are not to suffer any of your Indians to enter into a confederacy. * Great Harbor, or Edgartown, was from 1641 the county-seat of the island, and the early recordsof that settlement are in effect the official records of the county, which, until 1671, had no other incor-porated town. The entry on these records therefore, under date of 22 January, 1655, that Thecommon scale of this place shall be a bunch of grapes, was applied to the Vineyard, and not to thestill unnamed Edgartown. (Seal of Dukes County, Massachusetts. By Charles Edward Banks, inThe New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. liv. pp. 180, 181.) t Records of Massachusetts, vol. ii., 1642-1649, p. 114. X The charter is the oldest original muniment of title on the Vineyard, and is to be found in theTown Clerks office at Tisbury. § Papers relating to the island of Nantucket, Marthas Vineyard, and other islands adjacent,known as Dukes County while under the colony of New York. F. B. Hough, Svo,
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