Amanuensis Monday -- 1692 Deed of Shubael and Hannah Seaver Selling Land in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony to John Davis

 This week's document for transcription is the 1692 land deed record for Shubael Seaver and his wife Hannah selling land in Roxbury, Massachusetts Bay Colony to John Davis for 9 pounds.

[Suffolk County, Mass. Deeds 1669-1698:  pages 50-51, image 293 of 845]:

The transcription of this deed is (starting about 65% down the left-hand page of the image) with the assistance of FamilySearch Full-Text Search:

[Page 50, Image 285, starting about 65% down the left hand page of image]

Seaver    To all Christian People to whom this present writeing shall 

    to        or may come Greeting Know yee. That I Subael Seaver Senior of 

Davis      Roxbury in the County of Suffolk Wheelwright for and in consideration 

of a good and valuable sum of nine pounds current money to me well and 

and faithfully paid by John Davis Senior of the same town and County 

aforesaid the receipt whereof I do by these presents owne and acknowledg

and therewith to be fully Satisfyed and contented Have granted 

bargained and sold aliened enfeoffed and confirmed, and by these 

presents doe fully clearly and absolutely grant bargain and sell, alien 

Enfeoffe and confirme unto him the said John Davis his heirs and

Assignes five Acres of wood land be it more or less lying neer to Bare 

Marsh in the Second Divisions of Lands in the Town of Roxbury, afores'd and is

bounded East upon the lands of the Said John Davis, and North upon the 

land of Thomas Morey, West upon the land of Caleb Seaver and South upon 

the Lands of Thomas Bacon. To have and to hold the abovegranted 

and bargained prmisses with all the priviledges and appurtenances to 

the same appertaining or in any wise belonging unto him the said John 

Davis his heires Executors administrators and assignes forever to 

[Page 51, Image 293, right-hand page]

be and their only proper use benefit and behoof and I the Said Subael Seaver 

and Hannah Seaver my wife we our heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns 

do covenant promise and grant to and with the said John Davis his heires Executors

Administrators and Assignes, That we the said Subael Seaver and Hannah Seaver 

now am and are at the Ensealing hereof Shall Stand and be lawfully and rightly 

sole Seized of and in the abovegranted and bargained premisses in an Indefeazable 

Estate of Inheritance in fee Simple, and that we have good right full power 

and lawfull Authority to grant bargain Sell and confirm the same unto him the said 

John Davis his heires Executors Administrators and Assignes in manner as is 

abovesaid for ever And that he the said John Davis his heires Executors Admi-

nistrators and assignes and either of them shall and may at all times and from time 

to time forever herefore peaceably and quietly have hold occupy possess and enjoy 

the premisses in and by these presents granted bargained and sold and every part and 

parcel thereof with all the priviledges and appurtenances to the same appertaining or 

in any wise belonging without the lott Denyall or contradiction of of us the said Shubael 

Seaver and Hannah Seaver our heirs Executors Administrators and Assignes or of any

other person or persons whatsoever lawfully claiming and haveing any right title or 

interest therein or in any part or parcell thereof from by or under us or of any or either of 

us, or by any other lawfull ^wayes or^ meanes whatsoever. In Witness whereof we have here-

unto Set our hands and seales the Twentyeth fourth Day of October in the fourth yeare

of the Reign of William and Mary King and Queen over England &c Annoq Domi

1692.                                                                                   Shubael Seaver & a seal 

Signed Sealed and Deliv'rd in the presence of                the mark of Han X nah Seaver & a seal

John Searle the mark of Abiall A Curtice as witnesses. 

March 23. 1692/3 Shubael Seaver & Hannah his wife personally appearing before me

Samuel Sewall and of their majesties Council & a Justice for the Province of ye Massa-

chusets Bay; and acknowledged this Instrument to be Their voluntary Act & Deed

Entred March 28 1693                                             Sam'l Sewall

                                       Joseph Webb cler

The source citation for this land record is:

"Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," Suffolk County, Massachusetts, deed of Shubael and Hannah Seaver to John Davis, executed 24 October 1692, recorded 28 March 1693; imaged, FamilySearch  (https://

www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9ZS-BJH3?view=fullText : Nov 23, 2025), Image Group Number: 007442499, "Suffolk, Deeds 1669-1698," pages 50-51 (penned) (image 293 of 845); citing original records in Suffolk County Courthouse, imaged by FamilySearch.

This deed is for a parcel of woodland in Roxbury, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, owned by Shubael and Hannah Seaver. It was sold to John Davis, Senior for 9 pounds on 24 October 1692.

Shubael Seaver (1640-1730) and Hannah (Wilson) Seaver (1646-1721) are my 8th great-grandparents through their son Joseph Seaver (1672-1754) who married Mary Read in 1700.  

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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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