Note 280 — {92} Sixthly and lastly,
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“Mr. John Winthrope, jun., is granted ye hill at Tantousq, about 60 miles westward, in which the black-leade is; and liberty to purchase some land there of the Indians” (13th November, 1644).—Mass. Col. Rec., vol. ii. p. 82; and Savage, in Winthrop, N. E., vol. ii. p. 213, note. The place mentioned is what is now Sturbridge; which is called “the most important locality” of black-lead in Massachusetts, by Dr. Hitchcock.—Geol., pp. 47, 395.