 New Hampshire codified a rather weak prohibition against private purchases in 1641 : “ [ W ] hoever buys the Indian Ground by way of purchase is to tender it first to the town [ of Exeter ] before they are to make proper use of it in particular to themselves . ” In 1677 , the colony ordered the resettlement of the Piscataqua Indians . The colony 's instructions to Edmund Andros in 1686 included instructions to purchase Indian lands . 
