This week's document for transcription is the 1802 Deed of Josiah Sawtell selling 60 acres of land to Seth Montague for $625 in Worcester County, Massachusetts.
* Worcester [Massachusetts] Deeds, 1801-1802, 1802, pages 214-215, image 470 of 708:
The transcription of this document is (based on the FamilySearch Full-Text Search, with corrections as required, including line breaks):
[starting at the top of the left-hand page of the image, page 214]
Sawtell Josiah }
to } Know all men by these presents that I Josiah
Seth Montague } Sawtel of Mason in the County of Hillsborough & State of New
Hampshire Cooper in consideration of six hundred and twenty
five dollars paid by Seth Montague of Pepperell in the
County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Tailor
The receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge do hereby give
grant bargain sell and convey unto the said Seth Montague his
heirs and assigns forever a certain farm in the northwestwardly
part of Ashburnham on the road leading to Rindge containing
about sixty acres butted and bounded as follows viz begining at said
road at the southeastwardly corner thence runing northwardly
by Samuel Forten land to a stake and stones northwardly
by said Forten meadow thence by Enos Jones meadow to a stake
and stones ye head of said meadow thence eastwardly by said Jones
land to a stake and stones thence northwardly by said Jones
land to a northwardly corner of the premises thence westwardly by
Edward Jones to a large White pine stump with Stones on it
y'e northwestwardly corner thence southwardly by said road to
where it began be the same more or less together with the buildings
thereon and all the priviledges thereto belonging preserving how-
ever a bridle way how across said premises between Enos Jones and
Lawrence's farm so called not oblidging him the said Monta-
gue to repair said bridle way.
To have and to hold the same to the said Montague
his heirs and assigns to his & their use and behoof forever &
I do covenant with the said Montague his heirs and assigns
that I am lawfully seized in fee of the premises that they are
free from all incumbrances and that I will warrant and
defend the same to the said Seth Montague Montague his heirs & assigns
forever against the lawful claims and demand of all persons
whatever. In witness whereof I the said Sawtell together with
Hannah my wife have hereunto set our hands & seals this fifth
Day of April ADomini one thousand eight hundred & two
Signed Sealed & Deliv'd Josiah Sawtell {seal}
in presence of us Hannah Sawtell {seal}
Nehe'h Jewett Jr }
John Tarble } Middlesex Ss Pepperrell Ap'l 5'th 1802
Joseph Gragg } personally appeared the above named
Daniel Lawrence } Josiah Sawtell and acknowledged y'e above
instrument by him 5t subscribed to be his
free act and deed.
Before me John Walton Just of Peace
rec'd April 24'th 1802 Ent'd & Exam'd C'r Dan'l Clap Reg.
The source citation for this deed is:
Worcester County Massachusetts, Deed Records, deed of Josiah Sawtell to Seth Montague, dated 5 April 1802, recorded 24 April 1802; imaged, "Worcester, Massachusetts, United States records," FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89ZH-G6R2?view=fullText : Jun 15, 2025); Massachusetts. County Court (Worcester County). Image Group Number: 007460574, "Worcester. Deeds 1801-1802, 1802," pages 214-215, image 470 of 708; 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.
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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