Amanuensis Monday -- 1801 Deed of John Underhill Buying Land in Cheshire County, New Hampshire From Nathaniel Garland

This week's document for transcription is the 1801 Deed of Nathaniel Garland and his wife selling 57 acres of land in Plainfield, Cheshire County (now Sullivan County), New Hampshire to John Underhill for $700.    

a)  Cheshire County, New Hampshire. Deeds 1813-1814:  pages 502-503, image 543 of 866:

b)  Cheshire County, New Hampshire. Deeds 1813-1814:  pages 504-505, image 544 of 866:

The transcription of this deed, starting on page 503 near the top of the right-hand page of the first image, with the assistance of FamilySearch Full-Text Search:

[Page 503 starting near the top of the right-hand page of the first image]:

Know all men by these presents that I Nathaniel 

Garland of Plainfield in the County of Cheshire and 

of New Hampshire Trader For and in Consideration 

of the sum of Seven hundred dollars to me in hand 

Before the delivery hereof, well and Truly paid by John
Underhill of Chester in the County of Rockingham & 

State of New Hampshire husbandman the Receipt where-

of I do hereby acknowledge hence given Granted bar-
gained sold, and by these presents do give Grant Bar-

gain Sell aliene enfeoff Convey and confirm unto 

the said John Underhill his heirs and assigns 

forever. A Certain Tract or percel of land lying in 

New Grantham and Plainfield, Bounded as follows viz 

Begining at a Stake and Stones Standing on the west 

side of the road that runs from R. C . Duncans to 

Enfield, about four Rods west of a dry hemlock Tree

marked thence north 71 deg west 123 rods to the west line

of New Grantham then on said ^Town^ line South 42 deg. west
to a Stake and Stones Standing on the East side of the 

road that leads ^from New Grantham^ from through Plainfield by Mr Harris to 

Labanon 30 rods to a Stake nd Stones thence in Plainfield 

on the east side of said Road North 19 deg west 112 Rods 

to a Stake and Stones thence North 82 deg. east 134 Rods 

to a Small Hemlock Tree marked Standing in the 

South west Corner of land owned by Moses Flanders 

upon the North bank of Great Brook ( so called ) 

Then up the Centre of said Brook to the road that 

Leads from Robert Duncans to Enfield, thence upon 

the west side of said Road to the first mentioned 

Bound about 83 rods, Containing about fifty Seven 

acres more or less.  To have and to hold the s'd 

Granted premises with all the privileges and appur-

tenances to the Same belonging to him the said John

Underhill his heirs and assigns to his and their only 

proper use and benefit forever. And I do Covenant 

with the said John Underhill his heirs and assigns 

that I am Lawfully Seized in fee of the premises 

that they are free of all Incumbrances that I have 

good right to sell and convey the same to him 

and that I will warrant and defend the same to 

the said John Underhill and his heirs and assigns 

forever against the Lawful claims and demands

of All persons. In witness whereof I have hereunto

[page 504, top of the left-hand page of the second image]

Set my hand and Seal this ninth day of

June in the year of our Lord one Thousand eight 

hundred and One. And I,         wife of the said 

do hereby release my right of Dower in the premises 

Signed Sealed and              }    

delivered in presence of us }   Nath'l Garland  {Seal} 

Simon Towle    }                  Rockingham ss . State of New

Israel Huse       }            Hampshire Chester June 9th 1801. 

                                Personally appearing the above named 

Nathaniel Garland, and Acknowledged the above 

Instrument to be his Voluntary Act & Deed 

                                      Before me Simon Towle Jus Peace 

Recd . 29 June 1814. Recorded & Examined pr

                                                 James Campbell Rcdr.

The source citation for this deed record is:

"Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States records," Deed of Nathaniel Garland to John Underhill, executed 9 June 1801, recorded 29 June 1814; imaged, FamilySearch   (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSRH-F9ZN-4?view=fullText : accessed 1 May 2026), Image Group Number 008297918, "Cheshire. Deeds, 1813, 1814, 1813-1814," pages 503-504, images 543-544 of 866; original records in Cheshire County, New Hampshire Register of Deeds.

This deed documents the sale of 57 acres of land in Plainfield, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, sold by Nathaniel Garland and his wife of Plainfield to John Underhill of Chester for $700 in lawful money on 9 June 1801 (recorded 29 June 1814).  

John Underhill (1745-1816) and his wife, Hannah Colby (1745-1791), are my 5th great-grandparents, through their son Amos Underhill (1772-1865) who married Mary Metcalf (1780-1855) in 1801 in Piermont, Grafton County, New Hampahire.

I found this record using the FamilySearch Full-Text Search feature by searching for Johnhj Underhill and New Hampshire. The Full-Text Search transcription missed, or misplaced, many words on the left-hand margin of the pages.

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Read other transcriptions of records of my relatives and ancestors on my Amanuensis Monday Posts page.

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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