Amanuensis Monday -- 1779 Deed of Phineas Brigham Selling Land to Jonathan Forbes in Worcester County, Massachusetts

This week's document for transcription is the  1779 Deed of Phineas Brigham selling land to Jonathan Forbes for £500 in Worcester County, Massachusetts.

*  Worcester. Deeds 1779–1781, 1780–1781, 1779–1780, Land Records 1779–1780, 1780–1781, 1779–1781, pages 184-185, image 151 of 956:

The transcription of this document is (based on the FamilySearch Full-Text Search, with corrections as required, including line breaks):

[starting near the top of the right-hand page of the image, page 185]

Know all Men by these Presents that I Phinehas Brigham of Westboro in 

the County of Worcester and State of Massachusetts Bay in New England 

yeoman in Consideration of the sum of Five hundred pounds Lawfull 

Money to me in hand paid before the Ensealing hereof by Jonathan 

Forbes of Westboro in the County & state aforesaid Husbandman y'e Receipt 

whereof I do hereby acknowledge do herefor & by these presents Remise 

Release & forever Quitclaim unto him the said Jon'a Forbes his heirs & 

assigns all my rights Title Interests Inheritance property Claim and 

Demand of in & unto my Mother Mehetabel Brigham Dowry of Thirds to 

the Estate of her husband Moses Brigham Deceased.  To have and to hold

the same (how & wherever scituate & lying) with all the priviledges and 

appurtenances thereto belonging to him the said Jon'a Forbes his heirs & 

assigns forever hereby Declaring myself my heirs Exors & admors 

and from all or any future Claim to be made to my mother Mehita-

bel Brighams Dower of Thirds to the Estate of him the s'd Moses Brig-

ham Deceased and that the said Jon'a Forbes his heirs & assigns may 

forever hereafter peaceably Enjoy all my Interests in s'd Thirds without 

Molestation from me or any person Claiming under me.  In Witness 

whereof I the said Phinehas Brigham have hereunto set my hand & seal 

this Third day of August Anno Domini One Thousand seven hundred 

and seventy Nine.                       Phinehas Brigham  {seal}

Sign'd Seal'd & Deliv'd in y'e presence of us  Joseph Baker  Elijah Brigham.

Worcester ss August y'e 7 1779  The above Named Phinehas Brigham personally

appeared & Acknowledged this Instrument to be his free act & Deed before me

                                       Joseph Baker Justice Peace

Rec'd  August 11 1779   Entered & Exam'd  pr Nath'n Baldwin Regr.

The source citation for this deed is:

Worcester County (Massachusetts) Deed Records, deed of  Phineas Brigham to Jo0nathan Forbes, dated 3 August 1779, recorded 11 August 1779; imaged,  "Worcester, Massachusetts, United States records,"FamilySearch (https://

www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9ZH-2QBR?view=fullText : Jun 22, 2025), "Worcester. Deeds 1779–1781, 1780–1781, 1779–1780, Land Records 1779–1780, 1780–1781, 1779–1781," Image Group Number: 007459936, image 151 of 956; Original records:   Worcester County (Massachusetts). Register of Deeds.

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.  

Phinehas Brigham (1755-1802) was born 23 July 1755 in Westborough, Massachusetts to Moses and Mehitable (Grout) Brigham.  He married Lydia Batherick (1752-1795) on 29 April 1779 in Westborough and they had nine children.

Apparently, Phinehas Brigham never received or refused to receive the £49-13-9 he was supposed to receive from his father's estate in 1772.  In this deed, he sold his share of his mother's Dower real property to Jonathan Forbes on 3 August 1779.  Jonathan Forbes was the husband of Sarah Brigham (17542-1827), the older sister of Phinehas Brigham.

Phinehas and Lydia (Batherick) Brigham are my 4th great-grandparents, through their son Lambert Brigham (1794-1834) who married Sophia Buck in 1817.

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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