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Early accounts indicate that Indians were familiar with places often hundreds of miles distant and that they traveled over the same route in coming and going. Indians habitually marched in single file so trails rarely exceed 18 inched in width and…

Land deeds related to Westfield that were negotiated with the local Native Americans.

Copy of the Treaty of Big Tree (1797) made in 1812. The Treaty of Big Tree was between the Seneca nation (Western New York) and the United States of America.

Photograph of Alquat, Sachem [chief] of the Woronoak and Pojassuck tribes of the Pioneer Valley. Photograph is from Westfield's Quarter Millennial Anniversary Official Souvenir 1919.

Map of Native American lands and landmarks within Westfield, Massachusetts.

Military orderly book of General John Glover's Brigade kept by Lieut. Col. Ebenezer Sprout in 1778 and Col.William Shepard starting in 1779.