Amanuensis Monday -- 1821 Deed of David Kirby to Humphry Kirby for Land in Westport, Bristol County, Massachusetts

 This week's document for transcription is the 1821 Deed of David Kirby of Westport. Massachusetts selling 13 acres of land to Humphry Kirby in Westport, Bristol County, Massachusetts for $380.

a)  Bristol County, Massachusetts, Deeds 1820-1821, Pages 438-439, Image 225 of 849

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

[Page 439, Starting at the top of the right-hand page of the image]

Know all Men by these Presents , That I David Kirby of Westport in 

the County of Bristol and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Yeoman, 

in consideration of three hundred and eighty dollars paid by 

Humphry Kirby of the Town County and Commonwealth aforesaid, 

yeoman, the receipt whereof do hereby acknowledge do hereby 

give, grant, sell, and convey unto the said Humphry Kirby and to 

his heirs and assigns forever A certain tract or parcel of upland  

and Salt meadow adjoining, situate in Westport aforesaid on the 

east side of Accoxet River, containing by Estimation thirteen acres 

be the same more or less, and is bounded Easterly partly on the 

Grantees land and partly of a Creek, Southerly on said creek 

Westerly partly on Justice Kirbys land, and partly on the River, and 

Northerly on the River with all the previleges and appurtenan-

ces to the same belonging. To Have And To Hold the afore granted 

premises to the said Humphry Kirby to his heirs and assigns, 

to his and their use and behoof forever. And the said David 

Kirby for myself my heirs Executors and Administrators do cov-

enant with the said Humphry Kirby and his heirs and assigns, 

That I am lawfully seized in fee of the afore granted premises: 

That they are free of all incumbrances; That I have good right to 

sell and convey the same to the said Humphry Kirby as afores'd 

And that I will warrant and defend the same premises to the 

said Humphry Kirby and to his heirs and assigns forever against 

the lawful claims and demands of all persons. In Witness 

whereof I the said David Kirby together with my wife Martha 

Kirby who hereby voluntarily relinquishes her right of dower in 

the aforegranted premises have hereunto set our hands and 

seals this twenty seventh day of March in the year of our Lord 

One thousand eight hundred and twenty one.

 Signed sealed and delivered                        David Kirby    {s}

 in presence of us                                          Martha X Kirby {s}

Ichabod Kirby                                                       her mark

N L Brownell

Bristol ss of Westport March 27 , 1821, Then personally appeared the a-

fore named David Kirby and acknowledged the foregoing in-

strument to be his free act and deed. 

                     Before me Nathan'l Brownell Justice of the Peace. 

Received March 2. 1822 and recorded for Alfred Williams, Register

A true copy from Book 110 page 186 of Bristol Co  No. Dist. Re-

cords.                               Attest : - Emma E. Pray, Examiner.

The source citation for this deed is:

"Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States land records," Deed of David Kirby to Humphry Kirby,  executed 27 March 1821, recorded 2 March 1822; imaged, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9ZW-SW4D?view=fullText : accessed 24 July 2026), Image Group Number: 007451270, "Bristol Deeds, 1820-1821," pages 438-439, image 225 of 849; original papers at Bristol County (Massachusetts) Register of Deeds.

By this record it appears that David Kirby sold 13 acres of land in Westport to Humphry Kirby  for $380.  The dower on the land was released by Martha Kirby. The parcel was bounded by lands of David Kirby, Justice Kirby a creek and the Accoxet River. Humphry Kirby may be a nephew of David Kirby.

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 White (1757-1814) in 1786.

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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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