Monday, July 22, 2019

Amanuensis Monday -- 1811 Deed of Nathan Gates to Jabez Fairbank in Gardner, Massachusetts

This week's document for Amanuensis Monday is the 1811 deed of  Nathan Gates selling land to Jabez Fairbank in Gardner, Massachusetts in the Worcester County, Massachusetts Land Records: 

[Volume 180, pages 562-563]

[Volume 180, pages 564-565]


The transcription of this deed is:

[page 563, near top of right-hand page]

[in left margin]

Gates Nathan

         to 
Jabez Fairbank

[body of text]


                         Know all men by these presents that I Nathan Gates of

Gardner in the County of Worcester & Commonwealth of Massachusetts yeoman
in consideration of one thousand dollars paid me by Jabez Fairbank
of said Gardner Labourer the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge do
hereby give grant sell and convey unto the said Jabez Fairbank his heirs
and assigns a certain tract of land lying and being in the Southeasterly
part of Gardner aforesaid containing sixty acres be the same more or less
and is bounded as follows viz begining at the Northeasterly corner of said
land at a stake & stones thence westerly to a stake & stones being the South
west corner of John Miles's land thence Northerly to heap of stones the Southeast
corner of land of the said Gates sold to the said Miles thence westerly to a
heap of stones on the line of the Edgell land so called thence southerly to a
stake and stones in the bend of the wall near a well thence Southerly to a
stake & stones about a rod and half west of the run thence Southerly to a heap
of stones and stump thence westerly to a stake & stones at the road thence East-
erly bounding on said road to a stake and stones thence Southerly across
said road to a heap of stones near the roots of a tree thence easterly across
said road to a heap of stones in the fence thence Southeasterly bounding on said
road to a heap of stones the corner of Aaron Woods land thence North 76-1/4°] East
25 rods 3 links to a heap of stones thence south 61-1/2° East 18 rods to a heap of
stones thence North 44-1/4° East 15 rods to a hemlock thence 16-1/2° East
16 rods and 20 links to a stake and stones then North 63° East 9 rods to a heap
of stones thence Northerly 43 rods to a stake and stones thence Northerly
to a hemlock tree marked being the corner of fourth division lands
thence a straight line to the bounds first mentioned with the build-
ings thereon standing said land the greater part under improvement
and is all the land that said Gates owns in said Town the road through
said land is not here conveyed any thing in this deed to the contrary not-
withstanding.
                                   To have and to hold the same with all the priv-
ileges ad appurtenances thereto belonging to the said Jabez Fairbank
heirs and assigns to his and their use and behoof forever and I do
covenant with the said Jabez Fairbank his heirs and assigns that
I am lawfully seized in fee of the premises that they are free of all incum-

[page 564]

and that I will warrant and defend the same to the said Jabez
Fairbank his heirs and assigns forever against the lawful claims
and demands of all persons. In witness whereof I the said Nathan
Gates have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty eighth day
of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and eleven.                                                           Nathan Gates  {seal}
Signed Sealed &Deliv^d in presence of us         Abigail Gates  {seal}
Aaron Wood                     }
Merari Spaulding             }   Worcester ss Gardner August 28 1811 Nathan Gates
Abigail Gates                   }   acknowledged this deed to be his free act
                                                                    before me Aaron Wood Jus Peace
Rec^d Sept^r 3^d 1811. Ent^d & Exam^d pr Dan^l Clap Reg.

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 13 January 2015), Worcester County, "Deeds, 1811, Vol. 180-181," Volume 180, pages 563-564 (images 307-308 of 692), Deed of Nathan Gates to Jabez Fairbank, executed 28 August 1811, recorded 3 September 1811.

In this deed, Nathan Gates, yeoman of Gardner, sold a 60 acre tract of land in southeastern Gardner to Jabez Fairbank of Gardner for 1,000 dollars.  The land with buildings was all the land Nathan Gates owned in Gardner at the time.

Nathan Gates (1767-1830), who married Abigail Knowlton (1774-1855) in 1790, is my 4th great-grandfather.  I am descended from their daughter, Abigail Gates (1797-1867) who married Benjamin Seaver (1791-1825) in 1817.

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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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