"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."
The subject today is the 1809 deed of Thomas Dill of Eastham, Massachusetts selling all of his homestead lands to Ezekiel Dill and Seth Dill (left-hand page below):
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That
I Thomas Dill of Eastham in the
County of Barnstable yeoman
in
consideration of the sum of three hundred Dollars
paid
by Ezekiel Dill & Seth Dill of the Town and County
abovesaid mariner
the
receipt whereof I do
hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, sell and convey unto the
said Ezekiel & Seth Dill
their heirs and assigns forever, all
my homestead viz: the field the said
Dill's dwelling house stands in,
bounded on the east by Joseph Linkhornew;
on the north by John Hopkins; on the
west by Obed Knowles; on the south by a
cart-way; and also one field to the
southward of sd house that the barn now
stands in, bounded on the east by
the cart-way that goes to Great Neck (so ca-
lled) on the south by Elkanah
Higgins; and on the west by sd Higgins and the wid-
ow Phebe Higgins; and the north by
sd way; and also one other piece to the north-
ward of the Dwelling house of John
Praro [??”], about two acres be it more or less; and
one piece of Brush lot situate in
Wellfleet, bounded on the west by the Poast
road; on the South by Beriah
Higgins; on the east by Thomas Cobb; and also one
piece of salt meadow in sd Wellfleet
to the southward of the creek to the South of
the Dwelling house of James Dill,
bounded on the west by sd James; on the east by
John Gill; and on the north by sd
Creek; on the south by the upland; and
one piece of Cleared land, referring
to a Deed signed by Obed Knowles, & others, for
the boundaries with all the
buildings on the above sd piece of land.
To
HAVE and to HOLD the aforegranted Premises to the said
Ezekiel Dill & Seth Dill
their heirs and assigns, to them
& their use and behoof
forever.
And
I do covenant with the said
Ezekiel & Seth their
heirs
and assigns, That I own lawfully
seized in fee of the aforegranted Premises; that they are free of all
Incumbrances;
That
I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said
Ezekiel & Seth;
And
that I will
warrant and defend the same Premises to the said Ezekiel
& Seth Dill,
their heirs
and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of all
persons.
IN
WITNESS WHEREOF I
the said Thomas Dill
have
hereunto set my hand
and seal this Second
day of
January in
the year of our LORD one thousand Eight hundred
and nine
Signed, sealed and
delivered in presence of us.
Heman Smith, Junior } Thomas Dill
Parker Brown }
Barnstable,
SS. January 2d 1809
Then the
above-named Thomas Dill
acknowledged the
above Instrument to
be his
free Act and Deed – before me,
Elisha Mayo
Justice of Peace
Received
January 2d 1809 and
is recorded in the 6^th Book
of
Records for the County of Barnstable, Folio 90th
and is compared.
Attest, Eben^r Bacon,
Register
Record and compared per me,
Joshua Pittwood [?] Town
Register of Deeds
The source citation for this deed is:
"Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 26 February 2015), Barnstable County, Eastham Town Deeds, Volume 1, Page 488 (image 200 of 205), Deed of Thomas Dill to Ezekiel and Seth Dill, 1809.
Thomas Dill (1757-ca 1830) is my 4th great-grandfather. This is the only deed in the Barnstable County, Massachusetts deed books for a Thomas Dill, probably because the land record books for the 17th and 18th century were lost.
Ezekiel Dill and Seth Dill are the two eldest living sons of Thomas and Hannah (Horton) Dill in 1809. There are a number of other males, and my 3rd great-grandmother, Elizabeth Horton Dill, residing in the Thomas Dill household in the 1810 U.S. census.
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