CONCLUSION GEORGE WHEELER SR. FAMILY'S NORTH WALDEN POND 44 ACERS
For that time being, the 17th and most of the 18th Centuries, the 1635 Indian Treaty Land, 6-square-miles Concord Township Corporation including George Wheelers Sr.'s Walden pond 44 acers were a Puritan Theocratic 'City-State on the Hill'. [preached by Governor Winthrop in preparation for Massachusetts Bay Colony voyages to New England]
Matthew 5:14 "You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can't be hidden." [KJV Holy Bible]
But for certain, from 1635 until the present 2021, the 6-square-miles Concord Corporation including George Wheelers Sr.'s Walden pond 44 acers were and continue until this day to be 'Indian Treaty Land' 'the Supreme Law of the Land' under the authority of the Federal Government i.e. the U.S Congress alone. States have no authority meddling on or governing within 'Indian Treaty Land'. [SCOTUS McGIRT v. Oklahoma 2020]
"Walden Pond State Reservation Park is managed by the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation and includes 462 acres of protected open space. Over 600,000 visitors per year come from near and all the world's continents to experience this beautiful and serene place that inspirational facility." [The Walden Woods Project]
- The John Wheeler (born March 19, 1643 Concord, MA) heirs and descendant families and
- ‘The Society for Walden Pond and George Wheeler Sr.’s (born 23 March 1606 in Cranfield, Bedford, England) History Restoration, Education and Preservation, including Henry David Thoreau and Native Indian’s ‘Cathedral of Nature’ History Restoration, Education and Preservation endeavor to :
- reclaim the accurate George Wheeler Sr. History (born 23 March 1606 in Cranfield, Bedford, England)
- reclaim Concord Massachusetts Bay Colony and 1635 Indian Treaty History
- reclaim recognition of George Wheeler Sr. Families’ North Walden Pond 44 acres ownership.
- for documentation, education and publication within all Walden Pond State Reservation Park facilities so engaged.
The proprietors of the Walden Pond 44 acres Self-Executed’ the property with inhabitant living existence, which Ratified the ‘Supreme Law of the Land’ Indian Treaty.
This requested property action is similar to promises of Eastern Oklahoma in SCOTUS McGirt v. Oklahoma, but different because the Walden Pond 44 acres Indian Treaty property is that of the foreign settlers, not the Native Indian Tribe. Nevertheless, the ‘Supreme Law of the Land’ Indian Treaty Contract jurisdiction impacts both parties of the Indian Treaty Contract. All agreements and promises of both parties’ to the ‘Supreme Law of the Land’ Indian Treaty Contract are not one-sided either way, as with negotiations of any ordinary contract. [SCOTUS]
The proprietors’ inhabitant living existence included continued family ownership of the Walden Pond 44 acres, sacredness, baptisms, recreation and nature walks, taken to a new level by Thoreau 1845-1847.
George Wheeler Sr. and his bequeathed and descendant family owned and naturally preserved the Indian Treaty North Walden Pond 44 acres from 1635 – 1845.
During the 1841 Preemption ('Squatting') Law misconception, unbeknown to the Wheeler family, in 1844 the historic Emerson-Thoreau Cabin (Shanty)13.50 to 14 acres, depending on who measured, located in George Wheeler Sr.'s North Walden Pond 44 acres, were sold by "Squatter" Thomas Wyman or his estate to the good-intentioned Ralph Waldo Emerson, apparently from the confusion.
The 3 pages of 1845 deed, pictured in this report, was recorded in Middlesex County, Massachusetts and was for The South Walden Pond 41 acres that were sold by James Heywood to Abel Moore and John Hosmer who sold the South Walden Pond 41 acres to Ralph Waldo Emerson 1845 deed Book 473, pp. 351-353, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 1845. That deed was recorded for the legitimate purchase of the South Walden Pond 41 acres.
Emerson-Thoreau Cabin (Shanty) unauthorized Wheeler 13.50 to 14 acres located in George Wheeler Sr.'s North Walden Pond 44 acres and 2 other family sections with no Middlesex County deeds and the South Walden Pond 41 acres with Middlesex County deeds pictured were donated to the Massachusetts State Park system in 1922 by the Emerson family’s grandson and others.
North Walden Pond 44 acres and surrounding pond land with adjacent shoreline, the setting of Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Walden’ was donated in 3 sections to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1922 by the Emerson family 13.50, Forbes family 16.38 acres, and the Hoar family 13.6 acre North of the Pond water. These are shareholder George Wheeler Sr.’s Walden Pond 44 acres stockholds, North of the shoreline and Pond water.
The 1922 donations by the Heywood family were 7.59 acres East and by the Emerson family 33.1 acres South of the Walden Pond shoreline and pond water.
The Emerson family 13.50 to 14 acres North of the Pond water and Emerson family 41 acres South of the pond water were not adjacent but separated by location North and South of Pond water. The total North and South Emerson 54.50 acres are often confused with the North George Wheeler Sr.’s Walden Pond 44 acres. The photo above identifies the correct acreage, owner and location differences.
Appropriately, to again facilitate the Preservation of Walden Pond, which is now being desecrated, contaminated, polluted, overwhelmed and brutalized, while divagating to a totally diseased demise by the park system. The Society is seeking to reclaim our George Wheeler Sr. family’s recognition of the North Walden Pond 44 acres promised, agreed, Colonized, Purchased and Incorporated by George Wheeler Sr. who was 1 of the 15 Colonists, Purchasers, and Incorporators of the Concord Massachusetts Bay Corporation.
1961 Middlesex County Commissioners, managing the land around Walden Pond were sued to stop destruction of existing Walden Pond environment. Massachusetts Superior Court Judge David A. Rose ruled the Walden Pond deed donation to the park system required Preservation of the Walden Pond Land and barred development [9]. Judge was celebrated by school children for saving Walden Pond. Walden Pond became a Massachusetts State Park system 1975 with Judge Rose’s stipulation before allowing its donation to state park system. Unfortunately, Judge David A. Rose stipulation has long since been forgotten and violated.
George Wheeler Sr.’s History Preservation is equally important. George Wheeler Sr., together with his fellow 14 Puritan Concord Company Incorporators lived in peace and ‘concordance’ (the reason for the name Concord) with their Native Indian neighbors. The Society advocates improved environmental protection, less contamination and pollution and the accurate history of Walden Pond and George Wheeler Sr., Concord, Massachusetts. George Wheeler’s history has been smothered by the Walden Pond Massachusetts State Park System not included in the gift shops and libraries.
The United States and other Industrialized countries need natural, sacred, concordant, safe parks for contemplation and self-helped psychotherapy as managed by the Wheeler family’s Indian Treaty ownership at their Walden Pond Park from 1635 to 1845. Unwanted poachers and squatters occasionally crept through Wheeler family oversight according to Thoreau's book ‘Walden’.
Walden Pond is now in the Walden Pond State Reservation, Concord, Massachusetts and is a National Historic Landmark.
Walden Pond and its cousin-parks do not need brutalizing concrete jungles driven by revenue similar to the ‘operations’ of current Walden Pond State Reservation. Thoreau would become severely unwell and literally admonish the devastating conditions were he alive at this time, because the present conditions defeat the purpose his ‘Walden’.
The present Walden Pond condition represents Thoreau’s extensive lifetime admonitions. How devastating are the current ‘progressive’ Walden Pond State Reservation Thoreauvian counter-productions? 500,000 worldwide tourists visit the WPSR annually. Some visitors are shocked, disappointed and feel cheated by the differences seen and prices charged. Abundant criticisms are readily obvious when the internet researched for the horrendous conditions of the park now versus the beloved Walden Park described by Thoreau.
George Wheeler Sr. was born 23 Mar in Cranfield, Bedford, England 1606. His father was Thomas Wheeler. George Wheeler Sr. was an early settler of Concord, Massachusetts. His first record in Concord was his arrival 1635. [Ancestry.com]
"He appears to have been a person of some influence, and his name appears often on town records. He was selectman in 1660. His house lot of 11 acres was at the (present) corner of Main and Walden Streets. He owned a large amount of land in the center of the town. He had other lands near the ‘frog-pond’ and 44 acres with shoreline North of Walden Pond, and at Nut Meadow Brook, naming a few.
His will was dated January 28, 1684 and presented for probate June 2, 1687. (Suffolk Prob. Reg. Vol. X fol. 1) His sons Thomas and John were named coexecutors, but Captain Thomas Wheeler died in 1687 from wounds he sustained in 1675 King Phillips War. Thomas died, the same year of George Wheeler Sr.’s probate and John Wheeler was named sole executor.
George Wheeler Sr.’s age at death was 78. His will names “the children of his deceased son William, his sons Thomas and John, daughters Elizabeth Fletcher, Sarah Dudley, Ruth Hartwell and Hannah Fletcher, and the children of his daughter surnamed ‘Fox' “.
George Wheeler Sr.’s son, sole executor John Wheeler, executed the equal shares of Walden Pond and Flint’s Pond, not in 2 halves each, but Thomas was more efficaciously executed all Flint’s Pond 16 acres, the more attractive at the time and John, himself, executed the more historic later, the 44 acres with shoreline North of Walden Pond.
The following is the mid-section of this reporter’s 9th Great-Grandfather George Wheeler Sr. Will in 1684 illustrating the bequeath of Walden Pond and Flint's Pond to his sons, Thomas and John Wheeler, who were co-executors of his will.
- References
1. Trent, pg. 99
2. New England Historic Genealogical Society, pg. 34
3. a b Albert Gallatin Wheeler, pg. 1
4. Bonfanti, pg. 29 5. Gallatin Wheeler, pg. 12 6. Sltokin and Folsom, pg. 237 7. Sltokin and Folsom, pg. 42
On 21 Sept. 1687 administration of Thomas Wheeler estate was granted to his widow Hannah, and his son Thomas Wheeler Jr. The inventory begins: “an inventory of the estate of Thomas Wheeler, son of George Wheeler Sr. late of Concord deceased.” (Suffolk Prob. Reg. Vol. X fol 115-116). ["George Wheeler will January 28, 1684/5, presented for probate June 2, 1687. (Suffolk Prob. Reg. Vol. X fol. 1)"]
This reporter’s 8th Great-Grandfather John Wheeler, was named sole executor."[Source: The Wheeler Families of Old Concord, Massachusetts https://concordlibrary.org/special-collections/wheeler-genealogy/Compiled by George Tolman in 1908 Revised for editions of 1970 and 1981 and by Joseph C. Wheeler for this online edition of 2006.]
Following is mid-section of this reporter’s 9th Great-Grandfather George Wheeler Sr. Will 1684 illustrating bequeath of Walden Pond and Flint's Pond to his sons Thomas and John Wheeler
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1635 Trialism Indian Treaty (3 methods) between now Concord Massachusetts, ‘Musketaquid’ Pennacook Native Indian Tribe and Concord Massachusetts Bay Colony, comprised of 15 men and families, who were 1. Colonists 2. Purchasers and 3. Incorporators that included this reporter’s 9th Great-Grandfather, George Wheeler Sr., who purchased Walden Pond 44 acres among many other properties, who bequeathed Walden Pond to his 2 descendant sons, and his subsequent descendants continue to own, because Indian Treaties’ promises, agreements and perpetuity are the ‘Law of the Land’.
George Wheeler Sr. and his bequeathed and descendant family owned and naturally preserved the Indian Treaty North Walden Pond 44 acres from 1635 – 1845.
During the 1841 Preemption ('Squatting') Law misconception, unbeknown to the Wheeler family, in 1844 the historic Emerson-Thoreau Cabin (Shanty) 13.50 to 14 acres located in George Wheeler Sr.'s North Walden Pond 44 acres, were sold by "Squatter" Thomas Wyman or his estate to the good-intentioned Ralph Waldo Emerson, apparently from the confusion.
The 1845 deed, pictured in this report, was recorded in Middlesex County, Massachusetts and was for The South Walden Pond 41 acres that were sold by James Heywood to Abel Moore and John Hosmer who sold the South Walden Pond 41 acres to Ralph Waldo Emerson 1845 deed Book 473, pp. 351-353, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 1845. That deed was recorded for the legitimate purchase of the South Walden Pond 41 acres.
States have no authority-over and jurisdiction-of Indian Treaty Land when Reservations are Self-Executed by both Indian Treaty Parties and thus are Ratified Law.
The land acquired by the Concord Puritans was equivalent to purchased stockholds for their Incorporated Company. Only U.S. Congress can modify, disestablish Native Indian Treaties and regulate commerce of Native Indian Treaties, but U.S. Congress has never done so. [SCOTUS McGirt v. Oklahoma 2020]
The Constitution Annotated, Article VI Clause 2: “This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Indian Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.” [the Constitution Annotated https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/article-6/clause-2]
Articles VI, Clause 2 Constitution is equivalent to U.S. Congress and is equivalent to Native Indian Treaties; the 3 have the same authority. Native Indian Treaties are superior-to and untouchable-by states, because Native Indian Treaties are Federal, Constitutional, U.S. Congressional’ Law of the Land’.
To emphasize how serious Indian Treaty ‘Law of the Land’ agreement violations are for either involved Indian Treaty party, Sioux Indian Tribe was compensated $1 Billion in 2011 for unlawful Indian Treaty mistakes, but the Sioux Indian Tribe disagreed because Sioux Indian Tribe regarded $1 Billion compensation was too small.
The wrong Sovereign, the state of Oklahoma, convicted Jimmy McGirt. McGirt’s prosecution should have been in the Sovereign Indian Nation Reservation jurisdiction in Eastern Oklahoma, not the state of Oklahoma’s jurisdiction. Native Indian Treaties’ promises and agreements of both parties are superior-to states and untouchable-by states.[SCOTUS McGirt v. Oklahoma 2020]
Concord, Massachusetts Sovereign Pennacook Native Indian ‘Nation’ Treaty with Sovereign Concord Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritan ‘Nation’ promises, agreements and Reservations are the Federal ‘Law of the Land’, superior-to and untouchable-by the state of Massachusetts.
The Sovereign U.S. Congress has never disestablished Sovereign Native Indian Reservations and Native Indian Treaties.
George Wheeler Sr. was one of the 15 Colonists, Purchasers and Incorporators (stockholders) of the Sovereign Concord Massachusetts Bay Colony Puritan ‘Nation’ who purchased ‘6 mile square’ boundaries of Concord, MA that enclosed and included George Wheeler Sr.’s Walden Pond 44 acres in the Indian Treaty from the Pennacook Native Indian ‘Nation’ and established Sovereign Native Pennacook Indian ‘Praying Town Reservations’ and agreements and promises that have never been disestablished by U.S. Congress. [SCOTUS McGirt v. Oklahoma 2020]
The Colonists, Purchaser, Stockholder-Land Incorporators’ Puritan Concord Theocratic Government, and Native Pennacook Indian Trialism (3 methods) Treaty and the Puritan philosophical disassociation from the Crown, that was embroiled in soon to be Civil War with dethronement and beheading of King Charles I, rendered Concord unique and set the independent Company with entrepreneurial settlers apart from other settlements.
George Wheeler Sr. and his bequeathed and descendant family owned and naturally preserved the Indian Treaty North Walden Pond 44 acres from 1635 – 1845.
During the 1841 Preemption ('Squatting') Law misconception, unbeknown to the Wheeler family, in 1844 the historic Emerson-Thoreau Cabin (Shanty) 13.50 to 14 acres located in George Wheeler Sr.'s North Walden Pond 44 acres, were sold by "Squatter" Thomas Wyman or his estate to the good-intentioned Ralph Waldo Emerson, apparently from the confusion.
The 1845 deed, pictured in this report, was recorded in Middlesex County, Massachusetts and was for The South Walden Pond 41 acres that were sold by James Heywood to Abel Moore and John Hosmer who sold the South Walden Pond 41 acres to Ralph Waldo Emerson 1845 deed Book 473, pp. 351-353, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 1845. That deed was recorded for the legitimate purchase of the South Walden Pond 41 acres.
Similar to the ‘Indian Removal Act’ signed into law May 28, 1830, by United States President Andrew Jackson and ‘Trail of Tears’ to Oklahoma Reservation, which was never disestablished by U. S. Congress, but disregarded all these years until [SCOTUS McGirt v. Oklahoma 2020].
The Wrong Sovereign in 1844 allowed the sale the 13.50 to 14 acres within the North Walden Pond 44 acres, that includes the historic Emerson-Thoreau Cabin (Shanty) which were mistakenly ‘squatted by Henry David Thoreau and others.
George Wheeler Sr. bequeathed the North Walden Pond 44 acres to his son and sole will executor, John Wheeler b. 19 March 1643 who married Sarah Larkin. The descendant family owned and naturally preserved the North Walden Pond 44 acres from 1635 – 1845.
During the 1841 Preemption ('Squatting') Law misconception, unbeknown to the Wheeler family, in 1844 the 14 acres of the North Walden Pond 44 acres, that includes the historic Emerson-Thoreau Cabin (Shanty), were sold to the good-intentioned Ralph Waldo Emerson from 'Squatter' Thomas Wyman, the potter, apparently amid the 'Squatter' confusion. No deed was available and therefore no deed was recorded.
The South Walden Pond 41 acres were sold by James Heywood to Abel Moore and John Hosmer who sold the South Walden Pond 41 acres to Ralph Waldo Emerson 1845 deed Book 473, pp. 351-353, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 1845. That deed was recorded.
George Wheeler Sr’s North Walden Pond 44 acres is Right (North) of (Green) Walden Pond where Thoreau Shanty is located. Heywood ~36 acres property is on the left South of Walden Pond. In 1922 Heywood family donated and Ralph Waldo Emerson donated ~80 acres to State of Massachusetts for Recreation and Preservation. See 
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Above the Walden Pond Reservation picture depicts the Heywood property accurately to the left or South of Walden Pond and the George Wheeler Sr. / Ralph Waldo Emerson 44 Acres Walden Pond right or North of Walden Pond containing the Thoreau - Emerson Shanty.
The picture above without the family names better shows North Walden Pond and Thoreau-Emerson Shanty North at the top. Heywood property is accurately below or South of Walden Pond.
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Henry David Thoreau discussed himself a squatter and his neighbor James Wymans a squatter
in [Henry David Thoreau’s ‘Walden’, A Life in the Woods 1st published August 9, 1854. it sold just around 300 copies a year]
South Walden Pond 41 acres were transferred by deed and recorded in 1845. The North like so: James Wyman, a potter who made pottery, and was a Walden Pond 'squatter', a legal term, did not fulfil rightful conditions for ownership, according to informant, Henry David Thoreau in his historic book 'Walden'. The sheriff attempted in vain to collect taxes from Wyman, which must have been the order of the day for 'squatters'.
George Wheeler Sr. and his bequeathed and descendant family owned and naturally preserved the North Walden Pond 44 acres from 1635 – 1845. During the 1841 Preemption ('Squatting') Law misconception, unbeknown to the Wheeler family, in 1844 the 13.50 to 14 acres of the North Walden Pond 44acres, that includes the historic Emerson-Thoreau Cabin (Shanty), were sold with no deed to the good-intentioned Ralph Waldo Emerson, apparently from the confusion.
The 1845 deed, pictured in this report, was recorded in Middlesex County, Massachusetts and was for The South Walden Pond 41 acres that were sold by James Heywood to Abel Moore and John Hosmer who sold the South Walden Pond 41 acres to Ralph Waldo Emerson 1845 deed Book 473, pp. 351-353, Middlesex County, Massachusetts 1845. That deed was recorded for the legitimate purchase of the South Walden Pond 41 acres.
Both were donated to the Massachusetts State Park system in 1922 by the Emerson family’s grandson. The South Walden Pond land description, not the shanty section , was recorded in book 473 and pages 351-353 in the William Francis Galvin, Registry of Deeds Division, Maria C. Curtatone, Register of Deeds, Southern Middlesex District, PO Box 410068, Cambridge, MA 02141-0001. Page 2 of the deed page 352 with the important details of the deed posted above.
Thoreau and Emerson were initially close friends and business associates. Thoreau described himself a 'squatter', in his epic book 'Walden', during his 2 year experimental residence 1845 to 1847 on George Wheeler Sr.'s North Walden Pond 44 acres property that Emerson allegedly had purchased from Thomas Wyman without a recorded deed.
Possibly, only Wyman and Henry David Thoreau, a surveyor himself, realized and published in 'Walden', the 14 acres of the North Walden Pond 44 acres had no survey and no deed in 1844and, therefore, the reason for Ralph Waldo Emerson's scathing Henry David Thoreau Eulogy when Thoreau died. Imagine, a scathing Eulogy!
¶ 10 'Walden' paragraph 107 “Farther in the woods than any of these, where the road approaches nearest to the pond, Wyman the potter squatted, and furnished his townsmen with earthen ware, and left descendants to succeed him. Neither were they rich in worldly goods, holding the land by sufferance while they lived; and there often the sheriff came in vain to collect the taxes, and “attached a chip,” for form’s sake, as I have read in his accounts, there being nothing else that he could lay his hands on.
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“One day in midsummer, when I was hoeing, a man who was carrying a load of pottery to market stopped his horse against my field and inquired concerning Wyman the younger. He had long ago bought a potter’s wheel of him and wished to know what had become of him. I had read of the potter’s clay and wheel in Scripture, but it had never occurred to me that the pots we use were not such as had come down unbroken from those days, or grown on trees like gourds somewhere, and I was pleased to hear that so fictile an art was ever practiced in my neighborhood.
¶ 11 'Walden' paragraph 115 The last inhabitant of these woods before me was an Irishman, Hugh Quoil, (if I have spelt his name with coil enough,) who occupied Wyman’s tenement,—Col. Quoil, he was called. Rumor said that he had been a soldier at Waterloo. If he had lived I should have made him fight his battles over again. His trade here was that of a ditcher. Napoleon went to St. Helena; Quoil came to Walden Woods. All I know of him is tragic. He was a man of manners, like one who had seen the world, and was capable of more civil speech than you could well attend to. He wore a greatcoat in mid-summer, being affected with the trembling delirium, and his face was the color of carmine. He died in the road at the foot of Brister’s Hill shortly after I came to the woods, so that I have not remembered him as a neighbor. Before his house was pulled down, when his comrades avoided it as “an unlucky castle,” I visited it. There lay his old clothes curled up by use, as if they were himself, upon his raised plank bed. His pipe lay broken on the hearth, instead of a bowl broken at the fountain. The last could never have been the symbol of his death, for he confessed to me that, though he had heard of Brister’s Spring, he had never seen it; and soiled cards, kings of diamonds spades and hearts, were scattered over the floor. One black chicken which the administrator could not catch, black as night and as silent, not even croaking, awaiting Reynard, still went to roost in the next apartment. In the rear there was the dim outline of a garden, which had been planted but had never received its first hoeing, owing to those terrible shaking fits, though it was now harvest time. It was over-run with Roman wormwood and beggar-ticks, which last stuck to my clothes for all fruit. The skin of a woodchuck was freshly stretched upon the back of the house, a trophy of his last Waterloo; but no warm cap or mittens would he want more. [‘WALDEN by Henry David Thoreau’, A Life in the Woods 1st published August 9, 1854, it sold just around 300 copies a year]
In 2020, 500,000 people recreated and visited Walden Pond when the area and Pond were reported as terribly contaminated and polluted. The failure to preserve Walden’s Pond violates the 1961 Massachusetts Superior Court Judge David A. Rose ruling stipulation that the Walden Pond deed donation to the park system required Preservation of the Walden Pond Land and barred development [9].
Members of The Society seek to reclaim Recognition for the Wheeler family’s Walden Pond 44 acres ownership as promised, agreed, Colonized, Purchased and Incorporated by George Wheeler Sr. of the 15 Colonists, Purchasers, and Incorporators of the Concord Massachusetts Bay Corporation. 1
Walden Pond was very special and remained untamed. Walden Pond was formed with retraction of ice after the Ice Age, which was The Pleistocene Epoch defined as the time period that began about 2.6 million years ago and lasted until about 11,700 years ago. The most recent Ice Age occurred then, as glaciers covered huge parts of the planet Earth. [By Kim Ann Zimmermann - Live Science Contributor August 29, 2017, Live Science]
“Walden Pond is a kettle lake, formed at the end of the last Ice Age, some 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, when a huge block of glacial ice broke off and remained behind as the glacier retreated to the north. [USGS https://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/1998/fs064-98/pdf/fs06498.pdf]
Native Indians were said to be spiritually ritualing and fell into the Walden Pond water when the Kettle formed after the land collapsed. The Pennacook Native Indians were spiritual people and Walden was once a natural, sacred place. Thousands of Artifacts have been found around Walden pond documenting the Pennacooks’ frequent presence.
Walden Pond was never unowned, unappropriated, public land since Native Indian inhabitation in the Paleoindian Period (12,000-9,000 BP) until now 2021 after ownership transfer from the Native Indians to George Wheeler Sr., 1635.
“Henry David Thoreau's theology of the wild was enabled through his engagement with Native Indians. Thoreau believed that for peoples' souls to survive being cut off physically from wilderness, they must cultivate this wilderness within–a feat they must learn–and appropriate–from indigenous peoples.” [Apostles of Wilderness: American Indians and Thoreau's Theology of the Wild (Lydia Willsky-Ciollo; Apostles of Wilderness: American Indians and Thoreau's Theology of the Wild. The New England Quarterly 2018; 91 (4): 551–591. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00704]
“Thoreau's actions while living at Walden illustrate his concern with purification and rebirth. He has already stated that he swam early every morning in the pond. These actions function as a sort of ritual baptism, representing a new beginning and connecting Thoreau physically with nature. [http://www.bradleypdean.com/research_writings/Bean_Field_Article.pdfRediscovery of Walden by Bradley P. Dean pp 90 -97.]
Many sacrament baptisms were ritualed in Walden Pond. Many came from far away, even Boston, for the sacred Walden Pond ‘Spring water. Walden Pond had the deepest Massachusetts Lake formed from melted ice and formed from a ‘glacialkettle-hole’ with deep spring water arising from the ‘aquifers’ found during Thoreau’s depth measures. Thoreau claimed “Walden Pond figuratively mingled with the Sacred Ganges water….All Nature and Humans are infused with Divine Spirituality and accessible Creation and Universe Energies…..Living close to Nature provides and essential Human being experience…..Walden Pond is the ‘Cathedral of Nature’.” [Thoreau, 18545/1992:264]
Frozen Walden water ice was transported overseas. Walden Pond enjoyed an international spiritual reputation. Speculators believed Walden Pond’s underdevelopment was because of its Aboriginal and Colonial sacredness.
But Water-Resources Investigations Report 2001-4137 revealed Contamination and Pollution to Walden Pond Groundwater Area (CPTWPGA)
- · Concord municipal landfill + trailer park for now are outside CPTWPGA
- · Walden Pond State Reservation Septic leach field restroom facilities are in CPTWPGA
- · Nitrogen inputs (858 kms/year) =
- 1. (30%) is plume water from the septic leach field
- 2. (34 %) is likely swimmers’ + animal difficult to oxidize urine + N compounds: urea or uric acid C₅H₄N₄O₃. conversion to gases methane CHnitrous oxide N₂O, ammonia NH₃ that combines with chlorine to form chloramines.
- 3. Chlorine binds to swimmers’ body waste, sweat and urine and forms chloramines, that irritate skin, eyes, and the respiratory tract when they off gas from water
- 4. Phosphorus (32 kgm/per year) = 2 Geohydrology + Limnology Walden Pond inputs dominated by atmospheric dry deposition, background ground water + = ~ swimmers’ + animal urine
- 5. Phosphate is natural element in most swimmers’ + animal wastes => 50% in summer.
- 6. The septic-system plume for now did not contribute phosphorus but increased the nitrogen to phosphorus ratio for inputs from 41 to 59, on an atom-to-atom basis. [Geohydrology and Limnology of Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts By John A. Colman and Paul J. Friesz]
The sale of Walden Pond 13.50 to 14 acres to Ralph Waldon Emerson 1844 was inappropriate because the Colonial Landowners and Pennecook Native Indians Self-Executed’ inhabitant living existence, Ratified the ‘Law of the Land’ Indian Treaty, which was not disestablished by the U.S. Congress.
The George Wheeler Sr.’s 44 acres of North Walden Pond property that included the 13.50 to 14 acres inappropriately sold to Emerson and other Indian Treaty agreements and promises were not disestablished by the U.S. Congress.
The only means by which the 1845 purchase of Walden Pond by Ralph Waldo Emerson
can-be-held a lawful is for the entire Treaty between the Puritan Concord Colonists, Purchasers, Stockholder-Land Incorporators’ Theocratic Government and Native Pennacook Indian Nation to be disestablished by the U.S. Congress, which has never happened before by U.S. Congress.
Walden Pond 44 acres and all other Concord purchased land ownership was Ratified by self-execution of the 'Supreme Law of the Indian Treaty Land' by concordant Native Indian and Concord Massachusetts Bay Colony living in compliance with SCOTUS McGirt v. Oklahoma 2020.
Recognition of rightful ownership must be returned-to and reclaimed-by the bequeathed and executed descendants of George Wheeler Sr. The resumption of Walden Pond 44 acres preservation, sanitation and decontamination and other essential requirements must be reinstated as conditioned by Judge Rose.
1961 Middlesex County Commissioners, managing the land around Walden Pond were sued to stop destruction of existing Walden Pond environment. Massachusetts Superior Court Judge David A. Rose ruled the Walden Pond deed donation to the park system required Preservation of the Walden Pond Land and barred development [9].
Walden Pond water was deemed especially important, sacred and curative. Puritans were lured to Concord by Native Indian traders because of special appurtenances, like pastureland, freshwater streams, hunting, fishing and Walden Pond. But how must Humans compensate other Humans for spiritual deprivation? Spirituality and Spiritual deprivation are immeasurable. Incomprehensible and uncompensatable.
How can Humans compensate other Humans for Spirituality and Spiritual deprivation from 1844, the year of the unlawful sale of North Walden Pond 13.50 to 14 acres and loss of property and baptismal use to the present year of this report 2021, 177 years?
The George Wheeler Sr. Descendant family’s North Walden Pond total 44 acres Recognition of Ownership must be reclaimed and Preservation reestablished as required by Judge Rose must proceed post-haste.
Grandfather Charles Wesley Wheeler’s father descended from George Wheeler Sr. Concord, MA. Grandfather Charles Wesley Wheeler’s mother, Urina Elizabeth Wheeler descended from a different Wheeler line: John Wheeler 1591-1670 m. Agnes Yeomans 1595-~1692 family from Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts
From Concord, Massachusetts Bay Concord Colony, New Haven CT ‘Early Planters’ and Setauket, Brookhaven, Long island, New York and adjacent Puritan Colonies in 1600's this reporter’s ancestors settled and established Concord, KY and the Concord Church on the Big Sandy River across from the Buffalo Shoal near present Paintsville, KY. They intended to propagate Protestantism and convert lost souls. Thus far, 16% of this reporter’s heritage is Native American Creek and Cherokee Indian. Additional Native Indian ancestors are estimated. Additional research will proceed after this Walden Pond dilemma is rectified.
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