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Anna Sonam ( - )

Relationships: Princess Elizabeth Sonan (-) was a relative of Anna Sonam
Linked print sources: as Previous owner - Ducatus Leodiensis; or the topography of the town and parish of Leedes and parts adjacent ...
References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

An Indian Bracelet consisting of 15 double Rows of black and white Beads; the Warp of Leather Thongs, a few yellow, blew and striated Beads intermixed: These Bracelets are sometimes used as Monies in their greatest Payments. The Present of Alderman Massie's Widow. Bracelets of Horn engraved. Others of Elks Claws curiously wrought. An Indian Girdle said to be Anna Sonam's, a Queen in Maryland; it is wrought of Scarlet with black and white Waves interwoven upon thirty Rows of Thongs that seem to be the Guts of an Animal, brought thence and given me by Mr. James Green of Leedes.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

An Assonagh of Escocheon used at the Funeral of the Princess Eliz. Sonan, Sole-Daughter and Heir Apparent of Ann Sonam, a converted Indian Queen in Maryland: It is a Does Skin fixed upon a round Hoop near a Yard in Diameter, adorned with their Shell-money, viz. Roanoke Silver and Peak Gold, with some rude Lines and Colours, probably designed as the Arms; brought me from thence by Mr. James Green a Native of this Parish. A Shred of the Velvet Pall, now wholly divested of its Blackness by lying many Years over the Countess of Shrewsbury's Coffin in the Vault at Sheffield. A Ribband uncorrupt; and Hair white and fresh from a young Gentlewoman's Head buried 35 Years in the Church at Leedes. A Fragment of Duke Humphrey's Coffin, brought by Mr. H. Sligh from the Vault, then newly discovered, at St. Albans. In July 1683, was taken out of another Vault there a small Bit of Leather, being Part of the Boots of one supposed to be the Abbot of St. Alban's 500 years ago; his Vestments of Cloth of Gold were then fresh, sent me by Mr. Stock of Manchester; as was also,

A Catalogue of the Naturall and Artificial Curiositys in my slender Musaeum at Leedes Ano. 1708 an Assonagh or Escochean used at the funeral of Eliz: Sonam Sole dau'ter & heir apparent of Anne Sonam an Indian Queen in Maryland, 'tis of Doeskin placed upon a round hoop, adorned with Roanoke Silver & Peake Gold (shells) with rude distinction for the several familys, bro't me thence by Mr. James Green