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Monday, December 24, 2018

Amanuensis Monday - 1832 Deed of Solomon Green et al to Zachariah Hildreth in Townsend, Mass.

This week's document for Amanuensis Monday is the 1832 deed of Solomon Green et al to  Zachariah Hildreth of Townsend in the Middlesex County, Massachusetts Land Records: 

[Volume 337, pages 108-109]

The transcription of this deed is:

[Volume 337, page 108, starts at bottom of left-hand page]


[in left-hand margin]Solomon Green &al

to
Zach. Hildreth

[body of text]

Know all men by these presents that we Solomon

Green and Elisha Conant both of Townsend in the
County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachu-
setts  yeomen in consideration of ten dollars paid us by
Zachariah Hildreth of the aforesaid Townsend yeoman
the receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge do hereby give
grant sell and convey unto the said Zachariah Hildreth
his heirs and assigns forever a certain piece of land situate
in the southerly part of Townsend aforesaid it being a part
of the School lot so called and contains three and one
fourth acres be the same more or less and bounded as fol-
lows (viz) beginning at a stake and stones for a corner it being
also a corner of land of the heirs of Benanuel Pratt
thence Southerly by land of the said heirs about twelve
rods to a stake and stones thence southeasterly by land
of the said Green and Conant to a stake and stones

[page 109]

in a line of land owned by the said Hildreth the
length of line about forty five rods and thence northerly by
said Hildreths land about twelve rods to a stake and 
stones thence northwesterly by land of said Hildreth
about forty five rods to the bounds first mentioned.

To have and To hold the aforegranted premises to the
said Zacheriah Hildreth his heirs and assigns to his
and their use and behoof forever and we for our-
selves our heirs executors and administrators do covenant
with the said Zacheriah Hildreth his heirs and
assigns that we are lawfully seized in fee of the
aforegranted premises that they are free of all encumbrances
(That we are lawfully seized in fee of the aforegranted
premises that they are free of all encumbrances) that we
have good right to sell and convey the same to the
said Zacheriah Hildreth and that we for ourselves 
our heirs executors and administrators will warrant
and defend the same premises to the said Zacheriah
Hildreth his heirs and assigns forever against the
lawful claims and demands of all persons.

In witness whereof we the said Solomon Green 
and Elisha Conant and Emily Green wife of the said
Solomon and Achsah Conant wife of the said Elisha
in token that they release their right of dower in
said premises we have have hereunto set our hands
and seals this twelfth day of April in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.

Signed Sealed & Delivered  }   Solomon Green & {seal}
in presence of us                   }  Elisha Conant &  {seal}
Simeon Green     }                   Emily Green        {seal}
Irene Sawtell       }                   Achsah Conant  {seal}

Middlesex Ss March 4th 1833    Then the above named
Solomon Green and Elisha Conant acknowledged the
above instrument to be their free act and deed before me
Aaron Keyes Just of Peace
       Middlesex Ss  Decr 5^th 1834     Rec^d & Recorded by
                                                               W^m W. Stone  Regr
The source citation for this recorded deed is:

"Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 23 December 2018), Middlesex County, "Deeds, 1834-1835, Vol. 336-337," Volume 337, pages 108-109 (image 362 of 633), Deed of Solomon Green and Elisha Conant to Zachariah Hildreth, executed 12 April 1832, recorded 5 December 1834.

This deed is for three and a quarter acres of land in the so-called School Lot in the southern part of Townsend, adjacent to other land owned by Zachariah Hildreth.  Zachariah paid ten dollars for this piece of land, which measures about 12 rods (198 feet) in one dimension (south and north), and about 45 rods (743 feet) southeasterly and northwesterly, in a parallelogram shape.  


Zachariah Hildreth (1783-1857) "yeoman" is my 3rd great-grandfather, who married Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857) in Townsend, Massachusetts in 1810.  I am descended from their son, Edward Hildreth (1831-1899) who married Sophia Newton (1834-1923) in 1852.

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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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