moostraks
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Those pilgrims bought the land from those indians...there are also title deeds in the original form preserved in the museum. Problem was...the indians didn't understand property rights..and they came back and did whatever they wanted to on the land after they sold it. tones
As for indians, Miles Standish took forth with a pre-emptive strike on the Indians in the second year because he found evidence an indian attack was planned which led to this report regarding the indians by Edward Winslow who likewise served as Plymouth Colony Governor , in his 1624 memoirs Good News from New England, reports that "they forsook their houses, running to and fro like men distracted, living in swamps and other desert places, and so brought manifold diseases amongst themselves, whereof very many are dead". Guess it just backs up that preemptive war theory since they are just evil heathen followers of a corrupt religion.

Furthermore, since the pilgrims did not have any noteable contact with the indians until after squatting on their land and establishing dwellings, it is hard to put much confidence in any so called title deeds. Not too many would appreciate selling property under such terms nowadays.