Amanuensis Monday -- 1793 Quitclaim Deed of David and Martha Kirby to John Kirby for Land in Westport, Bristol County, Massachusetts

This week's document for transcription is the 1793 Quitclaim Deed of David and Martha Kirby of Westport. Massachusetts giving land to John Kirby in Westport, Bristol County, Massachusetts.

a)  Bristol County, Massachusetts, Deeds 1793-1795, Pages 476-477, Image 256 of 634

The transcription of this deed (with help from FamilySearch Full-Text Search, with some errors corrected) is:

[Page 476, Starting below the middle of the left-hand page of the image]

Know all Men by these presents , that I David Kirby of Westport in y'e County 

of Bristol in ye Commonwealth of Massachusetts Bay Yeoman, I do acquit 

all y'e right & Title & Claim that I have, I myself my heirs & assigns forever, 

to a certain peice of salt meadow Sedge flat, that was my father Ichabod Kirby 

late of Westport Dec'd lying in ye Eastermost Branch of Coaset River so called, 

& known by ye name Lonnon flat, Bounded as followeth Southerly on 

Wesson Kirbys, & partly on ye Creek, Westerly on meadow belonging to Robert 

Brownells heirs , & Northerly on Preserved Tripps, Easterly on Stephen 

Cornells, the above discribed Sedge flat I give up all of right Title, that 

I myself my heirs & assigns have, unto my Brother John Kirby of Westport 

in ye State afores'd to him y'e sd John Kirby & to his heirs & assigns forever, to 

have & to hold ye same be it more or less, with all ye prevelidges belonging 

to y'e same. In Witness whereof we have hereunto Set our hands & Seals 

this Nineteenth Day of August One Thousand Seven hundred & Ninety Three 

[Page 477, contuning at the top of the right-hand page of the image]

Lemuel Milk                                                  David Kirby         {s}

Meriba Deval .                                             Martha Kirby         {s}

Bristol ss. Westport  April y'e 27'th AD 1794.  Personally y'e above named

David Kirby & acknowledged y'e above signed to be his

free act and Deed.       Before me William Almy Justice of Peace 

Rec'd April 16. 1794. and recorded by James Williams Regr.

The source citation for this deed is:

"Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States land records," Quitclaim Deed of Davfid and Martha Kirby to John Kirby,  executed 19 August 1793, recorded 16 April 1794; imaged, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89ZS-BGBR?view=fullText : accessed 24 July 2026), Image Group Number:007442235, "Bristol Deeds, 1793-1795," pages 476-477, image 256 of 634; original papers at Bristol County (Massachusetts) Register of Deeds.

By this record it appears that David and Martha Kirby quitclaimed a parcel of salt meadow sedge flat, known as Lonnon flat, that was his father Ichabod Kirby's to his brother John Kirby.  The parcel was bounded by lands of Wesson Kirby, Robert Brownell's heirs, Preserved Tripp and Stephen Cornell. 

David Kirby (1740-1832) married Martha Sowle (1743-1828) in 1763 and they had two children.  They are my 5th great-grandparents through their daughter Sibel Kirby (1764-1848) who married Humphrey Wite (1757-1814) in 1786.

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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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