This week's document for Amanuensis Monday is from the Killingly, Connecticut Deed records for an 1852 deed of Paulina Mitchell selling land to Henry A. White:
The transcription of the deed (on the right-hand side of the image above) is:
To all people to whom these presents
shall come Greeting;
Know ye that I Paulina Mitchell of the
town of Killingly County of
Windham and State of Connecticut for
the consideration of One hundred
and fifty dollars received to my full
satisfaction of Henry A. White of the
town of Killingly County of Windham
State of Connecticut have remised
released and forever Quit claim and do
by these presents for myself and
my heirs justly and absolutely remise
release and forever Quit claim unto
the said Henry A. White and to his
heirs and Assigns forever all such rights
title and interest as I the said
Paulina Mitchell have or ought to have in
or to one certain lot or tract of land
situated in the town County & state aforesaid
containing by estimation fifty four
Acres be it the same more or less, bounded as
follows (viz.) beginning at the
northwest corner of said lot which is now a bound
of William Harrington's land and in
line of Samson Covell's, thence southerly on said
Harrington's land to a stake and stones
about fifty rods be it the same more or less,
thence easterly on said Harrington's
land to grey oak tree or stump with stones
about it, thence southerly on said
Harrington's land to a stake and stones being
about forty rods more or less, thence
westerly on said Harrington's land to a long
stone stuck in the ledge a corner of
Otis Basto's land thence southerly on said
Basto's land about fifty rods to an oak
tree with stones about it thence easterly
on land of Arba Covell until it comes
to the road or highway, thence N 30-1/2 E
10 rods 7 links on land of Calvin
Cutler, thence N 10-1/2 E 9 rods 5 links, thence N
17 E 11 rods 12 links, thence N 11-1/4
W 11 rods to a stake & stones, thence S 8-1/2 E 11 rods
7 links, thence N 86-1/2 E 14 rods on
land of Calvin Cutler to a stake & heap of stones, thence
N 66-1/2 W 3 rods on said Basto's and
Arba Covell's land, thence N 78 W 8 rods 21 links on s^d
Covell's land, thence on said Covell's
land to a heap of stones being about fifty rods
more or less, thence westerly on land
of Samson Covell to the first mentioned
bound, with a dwelling house & barn
thereon standing. To have & to hold the premises unto
him the said Henry A. White and unto
his heirs and assigns to the only use and
behoof of said Henry A. White his heirs
& assigns forever so that neither I the said
Grantor nor my heirs or any other
persons in my name and behalf shall or will
hereafter claim or demand any rights or
title to the premises or any part thereof
but they and every of them shall by
these presents be excluded & forever barred.
In witness Whereof I have hereunto set
my hand & seal this 21^st day of May 1852.
signed Sealed & delivered
In presence of
Daniel Mitchell Paulina Mitchell { L S }
Albert H. White her X mark
Killingly May 21^st 1852 Windham County
Ss personally appeared Paulina Mitchell
signer & sealer of the above
instrument & acknowledged the same to be her free Act & deed
Before me. Hazael Peckham Justice of the Peace
Recorded May 22^nd 1852 by Harley H.
Adams Town Clerk
Killingly (Connecticut) Town Clerk, Land Records, 1709-1907; General Index, 1709-1908, "Land records, Vol. 37-39, 1850-1857," Volume 37, page 326, Paulina Mitchell to Henry A. White, 21 May 1852, recorded 22 May 1852; accessed on Family History Library microfilm US/CAN 1450885; original records in Danielson, Conn. town hall.
There are several deeds for my 2nd great-grandfather Henry A. White (1824-1885) in Killingly, Connecticut land records. These records are recorded in the Connecticut towns rather than in the county records.
The metes and bounds for this deed define the boundaries of the property, and provide some indication of the neighbors. Hopefully, I can find a map of the property owners in this time frame to try to figure out just where the land was in Killingly.
Henry A. White (1824-1885) was a son of Jonathan and Miranda (Wade) White of Killingly. He married Amy Frances Oatley (1826-1864) in 1844 in Thompson, Connecticut. Their daughter, Julia E. White (1848-1913), who married Thomas Richmond (1848-1917) is my great-grandmother.
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NOTE: Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday." John offers this definition for "amanuensis:"
"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."
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