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Powhatan's Children. In Hartford, Conn., Mary J. Russell, duly elected Keeper of Wampum for the Degree of Pocahontas, pleaded guilty to taking $4,000 from the society's treasury...
...State of massachusetts granting it the concession of the Boston Charlestown Ferry. The University, seemingly not even impressed by the fact the members of the corporation could travel free here, rented the ferry out, but soon found that that can be even worse. The rents were usually paid in wampum and much bad wampum ended up in the University's pockets...
...unfinished wampum made by the Indians finds its way into the College treasury from ferry toll," President Dunster said...
...funds from an old stack of bad wampum are not the University's only immediate link with the past. Thanks immediately link with the past. Thanks to a $156 fund from Thomas Cotton (1727) the President gets about $7.03 a year in addition to his regular salary. Thomas Hollis in 1721 set up enough money to pay well over $20 to help defray the costs of having a treasurer...
Onstage, Maria looks as regal and exotic as a Russian princess; offstage, she is as American as wampum and apple pie. The daughter of a full-blooded Osage Indian and a Kansas farm girl, Maria was sent off to dancing school by her mother, at five. It was the same era that produced Shirley...