Amanuensis Monday -- 1700 Deed of Andrew Dewing Selling Land to John Plimpton in Dedham, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

 This week's document for transcription is the 1700 Deed of John Plimpton of Medfield buying land from Andrew Dewing in Dedham, Suffolk  County, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

*  Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Land Records (1742-1743), page 244, image 564 of 592:

The transcription of this document is (aided by FamilySearch Full-Text Search using Artificial Intelligence):

[starting at the top of  the left-hand page of image 564 of 592]

Dewing         To all Christian People before whom 

    to               this Deed of Sale shall come Andrew Dewing of Dedham in 

Plimpton       the County of Suffolk in His Majestys Province of the Massachusetts Bay 

in New England Sendeth Greeting & Co Know Ye That I the 

said Andrew Dewing Do alienate and Sell for and in Conside-

ration of Forty Shillings of good Current Money in hand 

Received and well and truly paid by John Plimpton of Medfield 

in the County aforesaid wherewith I do acknowledge 

my Self fully paid to my good Content and therefore I do 

hereby for my Self and my Heirs fully and absolutely acquitt 

and Discharge the said John Plimpton and his Heirs

there from forever Have and by these Presents Do Give Grant

Enfeoff alienate Sell and Confirm to the said John Plimpton 

and to his Heirs Executors admors and assigns forever ... 

Seventy Acres of Land more or less my whole woodlott as it

lyeth in Dedham aforesaid in the General Divident near

Medfield as it is Bounded and abutteth upon the Land

granted to Henry White towards the South and upon the 

Land Granted to John Bacon in part and the End of the

Common Meadow in part towards the North Medfield 

Pound Line West and the Waste Land East all which said 

Land as it is Described Bounded and abutted as aforesaid 

I the said Andrew Dewing Do hereby avouch my Self to be the 

true Sole owner thereof and in my own power the Same 

Legally to make sale of at the Day of the date hereof and 

with the said Land I do hereby Warrant all the Wood 

Timber Profits Fruits Benefits & advantages that are in 

& upon or in any ways properly belonging thereunto or that 

may at any Time hereafter be attained therefrom To be abide

& Remain & good Estate of Sound Inheritance in Fee Simple 

[right-hand page of image 564 of 592] 

To Have and To Hold to him the said John Plimplon 

and to his Heirs Executors admors and assigns in Peaceable

Possession forever free from all former Gifts Grants Sales Leases 

Joyntures Judgments Executions Mortgages Dowrys and all 

other Legal Molestations whatsoever from by or under me the 

said Andrew Dewing or any of my heirs and I do hereby Engage 

to Defend the title of the said Land against the Lawfull Claims 

of all persons whosoever and hereby I Render and give Seizen

and Lawfull Possession of all the said Land In Witness whereof 

I the said Andrew Dewing have hereunto Sett my Hand 

and affixed my seal this 22'd Day of March In the year Anno

Domini one thousand Six Hundred Ninety Nine 700  In 

Twelfe year of His Majestys Reign King William the Third

Sgl Andrew Dewing and a Seal. Signed Sealed and Delivered 

In presence of us Timothy Dwight Tho's Battle John  Whiting. 

Andrew Dewing Personally appeared before me the Subscriber

one of His Majestys Justices for the County of Suffolk and Owned 

this Instrument to be his act and Deed May 22'd 1700.

 Timothy Dwight, December 25'th 1742 . Received and 

accordingly Entred & Examined .

                                          Sgl  Ezek'l Goldthwait 

                                                   

The source citation for this Deed is:

Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Deeds, Andrew Dewing to John Plimpton deed dated 22 March 1699/1700, recorded 25 December 1742; imaged, FamilySearch   (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89Z3-MHW1?view=fullText : Oct 12 2025), Image Group Number: 007442520,  "Suffolk Deeds, 1741-1742," page 244, image 564 of 592; original records in Suffolk County, Massachusetts Register of Deeds; imaged, catalogued and transcribed by FamilySearch.

In this deed, Andrew Dewing of Dedham sold 70 acres of woodlot land on the southwest side of Dedham to John Plimpton of Medfield for 40 shillings.  The deed was written in 22 March 1699/1700, and recorded in the Suffolk County deed register on 25 December 1742.  It is likely that the deed was registered as the result of a probate of John Plimpton's widow or of one of his children.

John Plimpton (1649-1704) was born 16 June 1649 in Dedham, Massachusetts Bay Colony, the son of John Plimpton and Jane Dammant.  He married (1) Elizabeth Fisher (1659-1694) on 2 January 1678 in Medfield, Massachusetts Bay Colony, and they had three childen.  He married (2) Sarah Turner (1663-1738) on 28 February 1697 in Medfield, and they had two children.  John died 30 January 1704 in Medfield leaving a widow and at least three children.    

John Plimpton (1649-1704) and Elizabeth (Fisher) Plimpton (1659-1694) are my 8th great-grandparents, and are the parents of my 7th great-grandfather John Plimpton (1680-1730) who married Susanna Draper (1687-1769) in 1707 in Medfield.

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