This week's document for transcription is the 1832 Deed of Josiah Sawtell \buying land from Sullivan Howard for $500 in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire.
* Hillsborough [New Hampshire] Deeds, 1832 - pages 267-268, image 471 of 652:
* Hillsborough [New Hampshire] Deeds, 1832 - pages 269-270, image 472 of 652:
The transcription of this document is (based on the FamilySearch Full-Text Search, with corrections as required, including line breaks):
[starting on the right-hand page of the image, about 50% down page 268]
Howard } Know all men by these presents that I Sul-
to } livan Howard of Mason in the County of
Sawtell } Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire
} Carpenter in consideration of five hundred
Dollars to me paid by Josiah Sawtell of the same Mason
Cordwainer the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge have
given granted bargained sold and conveyed and do for myself
and my heirs by these presents give grant bargain sell and con-
vey unto the said Josiah Sawtell his heirs and assigns for-
ever a certain tract or parcel of land with the buildings thereon
situate in Mason aforesaid bounded thus Beginning at the
southwest corner of the premises being the northwest corner of
the premises Simeon Cragins land near to the meeting house
in Mason Village so called thence running on said Cragins
land Eastwardly till it strikes a line one rod west of my barn
and shed and paralel with it thence north on said paralel
line six rods thence westwardly on a line paralel with said
Cragins line first mentioned to the highway in front of said
meeting house about three rods and two thirds of a rod thence
on said highway six rods to the place of beginning with all
the privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging to him the
the said Josiah Sawtell his heirs and assigns to his and their use
and behoof forever . And I do covenant with the said Josiah
[top of page 269]
Sawtell his heirs and assigns that I am lawfully seized in
fee of the afore
described premises that they are free of all in-
cumbrances that I have good right to sell and convey
the
same to the said Josiah Sawtell in manner aforesaid . And
that I and my heirs
will warrant and defend the same prem-
ises to the said Josiah Sawtell his heirs
and assigns forever
against the lawful claims and demands of all persons .
In witness
whereof I the said Sullivan Howard and Elizabeth
R. Howard wife of the said Sullivan Howard in token of
her relinquishment of her right of
Dower in the premises
have hereunto set our hands and seals this fifth day of
May in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred
and thirty two . Signed sealed and
delivered in presence
of us Almira Hill } Sullivan Howard {seal}
Nathl Shattuck } Elizabeth B. Howard {seal}
Hillsborough Ss . May 22'd 1832 Then
the above named Sulli-
van Howard personally acknowledged the
above instru-
ment to be his free act and deed Before me
Nathl Shattuck Justice of Peace
Hillsborough Ss . Recd and Recorded May 30 , 1832 &
Examined by Ezra Prescott Reg'r.
The source citation for this deed is:
Hillsborough County New Hampshire, Deed Records, deed of Sullivan Howard to Josiah Sawtell, dated 22 May 1832, recorded 30 May 1832; imaged, "Hillsborough, New Hampshire, United States records," FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSRH-89KW-Q?view=fullText : accessed May 18, 2024), "Hillsborough. Deeds 1832," pages 268-269, images 471-472 of 652; Originial records at Hillsborough County, New Hampshire Recorder.
This is a Derivative Source (because it is a court clerk's transcription of the original deed with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the names of the two parties, and the dates of the deed execution, signing and recording.
Josiah Sawtell (1768-1847) was born 24 January 1768 in Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, the son of Ephraim and Abigail (Stone) Sawtell. He married Hannah Smith (1768-1827) on 5 October 1789 in Amherst, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Josiah died 7 December 1847 in Townsend, Middlesex County, Massachusetts. They had nine children.
Josiah and Hannah (Smith) Sawtell are my 4th great-grandparents, through their daughter Hannah Sawtell (1789-1857) who married Zachariah Hildreth (1784-1857) in 1810 in Townsend, Massachuseetts.
Read other transcriptions of records of my relatives and ancestors at Amanuensis Monday Posts.
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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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