Amanuensis Monday -- 1730 Deed of Nathaniel Guild Selling Land to Jacob Ellis in Walpole, Suffolk County, Massachusetts

 This week's document for transcription is the 1730 Deed of Nathaniel Guild of Medfield selling land to Jacob Ellis in Walpole, Suffolk  County, Massachusetts Bay Colony.

*  Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Land Records (1752-1753), page 273, image 291 of 595:

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

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Guild    To all People unto whom this 

   to       present Deed of sale shall come Greeting Know Ye that 

Ellis      I Nathaniel Guild of Dedham in the County of Suffolk 

within his Majestys Province of the Massachusetts Bay 

in New England Yeoman for and in Consideration of 

the sum of one hundred pounds Current money of 

New England to me in hand well and truly paid by 

Jacob Ellis of Walpole in the County & Province aforesaid 

Yeoman the Receipt whereof to full Content & Satisfaction 

I do hereby acknowledge and of every part and parcel 

thereof do acquit exonerate and discharge him the said 

Jacob Ellis his heirs Ex'cors adm'ors forever by these presents 

Have Given Granted Bargained and Sold and by 

these presents do fully freely clearly and absolutely Give 

Grant Bargain Sell Convey and Confirm unto him 

the said Jacob Ellis his heirs and assigns forever, One 

Messuage or Tract of Swamp or Meadow Land situate 

lying and being within the Limits of the Township 

of Walpole containing by Estimation four acres be it 

more or less as it is abutted bounded towards the North 

on the Land of Nathaniel Colburn towards the West on 

the Land of Daniel Draper towards the South & Southwest 

on the Land of Richard Ellis and Southwardly in part 

and Eastwardly in part on the Land of Jonathan Lewis 

and Northwardly in part and Eastwardly in part 

on the Land of Joseph Fisher. To Have and To Hold 

the said granted and bargained premisses with all the 

Appur'ces and priviledges to the same belonging or in 

any wise appertaining to him the said Jacob Ellis 

his heirs and assigns forever , to his and their, only

proper use benefit and behoof only forever. and I the said 

Nathaniel Guild for my self and my heirs do Covenant 

to and with the said Jacob Ellis  his heirs and assigns as 

followeth ( Viz't)   that at and until the Ensealing and 

Delivery of these presents I am the true sole and lawful 

owner of the abovegranted and bargained premisses & 

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Am lawfully seized and possessed of the same in mine own 

 proper right as a good, perfect, absolute Estate of Inheritance 

in Fee simple, and have in myself good right full power 

and lawful authority to grant bargain convey and confirm 

said bargained premisses in manner as abovesaid and that

the said Jacob Ellis his heirs and assigns shall and may from 

time to time and at all times forever hereafter by virtue of

these presents lawfully peaceably and quietly have hold use 

occupy possess and enjoy the said demised and bargained 

premisses with the Appur'ces freely and dearly acquitted 

exonerated and discharged of and from all manner of other 

former Gifts Grants Bargains Sales Leases Mortgages, 

Wills Entails Joyntures Judgments Executions Extents &c.

Furthermore I the said Nathaniel Guild for my self 

my heirs Ex'cors and Adm'ors do Covenant Promise and 

Engage to Warrant maintain and Defend the said meadow 

or swamp Land with the Appur'ces unto him the said 

Jacob Ellis his heirs and assigns forever , against the lawful 

Claim of all and every person or persons whomsoever. In 

Witness whereof I the said Nathaniel Guild  have hereunto 

set my hand and seal the fifth day of February Anno 

Domini One Thousand seven hundred and thirty, and 

in the fourth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King

George the second, over Great Britain &c. Nathan Guild 

and a seal. Signed Sealed and Delivered in presence 

of us Ebenezer Dean Ebenezer Healey Suff : ss : Dedham 

February 5 1732 /3 The above said Nathaniel Guild 

personally appeared and acknowledged the abovewritten

Instrument to be his act and Deed before me John 

Metcalfe Justice Peace. February 2'd 1753. Received & 

accordingly Entered and Examined. --  

                                    p'r Ezek'l Goldthwait Reg'r.

                                               

The source citation for this Deed is:

Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Deeds, Nathaniel Guild to Jacob Ellis,  deed dated 5 February 1730, recorded 2 Februaey 1753; imaged, FamilySearch   (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9Z3-SH7S?view=fullText : Oct 12 2025), Image Group Number: 007442658,  "Suffolk Deeds, 1752-1753," page 273, image 291 of 595; original records in Suffolk County, Massachusetts Register of Deeds; imaged, catalogued and transcribed by FamilySearch.

In this deed, Nathaniel Guild of Dedham sold 4 acres of meadow or swamp land in Walpole to Jacob Ellis of Walpole for 100 pounds.  The deed was written 5 February 1730, and recorded in the Suffolk County deed register on 2 February 1753.  

Nathaniel Guild (1679-1774) was born 12 January 1678/9 in Dedham, Massachusetts Bay Colony, the son of Samuel Guild and Mary Woodcock.  He married Mehitable Hartshorn (1683-1771) in about 1708 in Dedham, Massachusetts Bay Colony, and they had ten childen.  Nathaniel died 28 January 1774 in Dedham.    

Nathaniel Guild (1679-1774) and Megitable Hartshorn (1683-1771) are my 7th great-grandparents, and are the parents of my 6th great-grandfather Nathaniel Guild (1712-1796) who married Mary Boyden (1708-1776) in 1733 in Dedham.

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"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

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