Amanuensis Monday -- 1801 Deed of John Underhill Selling Land in Rockingham County, New Hampshire To Mary Brown

This week's document for transcription is the 1801 Deed of John Underhill selling 78 acres of land in Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire to Mary Brown for $600.  

a)  Rockingham County, New Hampshire. Deeds 1801-1802:  pages 460-461, image 730 of 786:

The transcription of this deed, starting on page 460 at the top of the left-hand page of the  image, with the assistance of FamilySearch Full-Text Search:

[Page 460 starting at the top of the left-hand page of the image]:

[in the left-hand margin]

Underhill

to 

Brown

[In the body of the page]

Know all men by these Presents , That I John 

Underhill of Chester in the County of Rockingham 

and State of Newhampshire husbandman 

For and in confideration of the sum of Six hundred Dollars

to me in hand before the delivery hereof, well and truly paid by 

Mary Brown the Wife of Benjamin Brown Esquire of 

Chester aforesaid to her sole use forever

the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, have given, granted, bargained, sold, and by these 

presents, do give, grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff, convey and confirm unto the said Mary 

Brown her heirs & assigns forever, a certain tract of Land laying 

in Chester aforesaid, containing Seventy eight acres be it the same more or less 

it being & containing all my homestead whereon I now Dwell, bounded 

as follows first at a Stake & Stones being Stephen Luskins N. E. Corner 

thence S 35 West ninety rods & one half to Stake & Stones being 

said Luskins S E corner ^thence^ N 53 W Seventy two rods by s'd Luskins 

Land to a hemlock marked, thence S 14 ½ W Sixty eight Rods by 

David Underhill 's Land to Stake & Stones, thence S 52 E one 

one hundred & Twenty one rods & an half by Ebenezar Dearborn's Land 

to the highway a Stake & Stones, thence Northerly by the highway Sixty 

six & a half rods a Stake & Stones, thence N 50 W thirty two rods and

an half by the aforesaid Browns & Swetsers Land to stake & stones, thence 

N 34 E eighty five rods to a Stone Standing in the wall thence N 52 W. 

forty three & an half Rods by the main road to the bound first mentioned 

with the building on the same except the Griffin house which is Claimed 

by the Town ---

To have and to hold the said granted premises with all the privileges and appurtenances to the 

same belonging to her the said Mary to her sole use and

heirs and assigns to her & their only proper use and benefit forever. And I the said 

John Underhill for myself my - heirs, executors, and administrators, 

do hereby covenant, grant, and agree to and with the Said Mary Brown

her heirs, and alligns, that until the delivery hereof I am 

the lawful owner of the said premises and am seized and possessed thereof in 

my own right in fee simple, and have full power and lawful authority to grant and convey the 

same in manner aforesaid; that the said premises are free and clear of all and every incumbrance

whatsoever, and that I the said John my heirs, executors and 

administrators, shall and will warrant the fame to her

her heirs and affigns against the lawful claims and demands of any person or persons whomsoever. 

Witness my hand & Seal this twenty third day of 

March Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred & one 

Signed , Sealed & delivered  

in presence of us ---                            John Underhill    {seal}

Henry Swester                                   Hannah Underhill   {seal}

Stephen Chase

                  Rockingham, State of Newhampshire 

March 23'd 1801. Personally appearing John Underhill & Hannah 

Underhill & acknowledged the above 

Instrument to be their voluntary act & deed before me 

                                                Stephen Chase Just Peace 

Rec'd & Recorded 8th February 1802 - 

                                              Jos: Adams Rdr

The source citation for this deed record is:

"Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States records," Deed of John Underhill Jr to Mary Brown, executed 23 March 1801, recorded 8 February 1802; imaged, FamilySearch   (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSRZ-PQ8M-4?view=fullText : accessed 1 May 2026), Image Group Number 008298506, "Rockingham. Deeds, 1801-1802, 1801," page 460, image 730 of  786; original records in Rockingham County, New Hampshire Register of Deeds.

This deed documents the sale of 78 acres of land (his entire homestead) in Chester, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, sold by John Underhill  of Chester, Rockingham County to Mary Brown of Chester for $600 in lawful money on 23 March 1801 (recorded 8 February 1802).  

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 John Underhill and New Hampshire. The Full-Text Search transcription missed orm isplaced few words.

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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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