Genea-Musings

Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Rabbit Holes With Randy - Who Were the Parents of Elizabeth/Betty Noad (ca 1768-1814)?

This week's rabbit hole is to try to find the parents of Elizabeth (or Betty) Noad in or around Trowbridge, Wiltshire. She is probably my 4th great-grandmother, the mother of John Rich (1790-1868) of Trowbridge and Hilperton, who married Rebecca Hill (1790-1863) in 1815 in Hilperton, Wiltshire.

1) What do I know based on the available records?

* A baptism record for John Rich is in the Trowbridge parish registers, baptized 14 November 1790, the son of William and Betty Rich:

The source citation for this record is:

"Wiltshire, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812," indexed database with record images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com), Trowbridge, St. James with St. Stephen > Parish Registers > 1761-1812, image 62 of 318, John Rich baptism entry, 14 November 1790.

* I easily found the marriage of William Rich and Betty Noad in the Trowbridge parish records:

The source citation for this record is:

"Wiltshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1916," indexed database with record images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com), Trowbridge St. James with St. Stephen > Parish Registers > 1782-1801, page 275, William Rich and Betty Noad marriage entry, 27 January 1788.

I noted that William Rich was a bachelor, and Betty Noad was a spinster. Both signed with a mark. One witness was a John Noad with a fairly distinctive hand.

* In the marriage register, there are Banns for three weeks in November 1787 for William Rich and Elizabeth Noad that is, without doubt, the same couple:

The source citation for this record is:

"Wiltshire, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1916," indexed database with record images, Ancestry.com (https://www.ancestry.com), Trowbridge St. James with St. Stephen > Parish Registers > 1782-1801, page 53, William Rich and Elizabeth Noad marriage banns entry, 4, 11 and 18 November 1787.

2) I have some questions to answer. Who are the parents of Elizabeth/Betty Noad? When and where was she born? Was Trowbridge her parish church? My hypothesis is that she was born between 1760 and 1770 in Wiltshire.

I started the search for her birth and parentage by searching the Wiltshire parish records for baptisms of a Elizabeth or Betty Noad in Wiltshire in that time frame. There were no entries. Expanding the search to 1755 to 1775, resulted in one entry in 1773 in Sutton Veny, Wiltshire to James and Mary Noat, and one entry in Swindon, Wiltshire in 1775 to William and Mary Noad. Elizabeth/Betty would have been age 14 or age 12 at her marriage to William Rich, who was probably born in about 1766.

3) Plan B. Who had Noad children in Wiltshire in 1750-1770?

Having struck out with the obvious plan A, plan B is to figure out which Noad parents were having children baptized in or around Trowbridge in the 1750 to 1770 time frame. This was a bit more fruitful, ad I have collected them into families:

a) John and Christian (--?--) Noad of Trowbridge:

* Jane Noad, baptized 5 June 1759

* Thomas Noad, baptized 5 June 1759

* Rebecca Noad, baptized 5 June 1759, buried 15 August 1759.

* Stephen Noad, baptized 26 December 1760

* William Noad, baptized 4 April 1763

* A John Noad was buried 19 February 1764. Was it the father of this group of children?

* Christian Noad, widow of John Noad, was buried 15 June 1806.

b) William and Grace (Crabb) Noad of Trowbridge:

* William Noad, baptized 8 April 1751

* Grace Noad, baptized 20 Feb 1757

* Richard Noad, baptized 13 April 1760

* Phebe Noad, baptized 16 May 1762

* John Noad, baptized 3 October 1764

* Sarah Noad, baptized 5 February 1769

* Grace Noad, wife of William, buried 22 January 1769

c) Oliver and Mary (--?--) Noad, of North Wraxall, Wiltshire:

* John Noad, baptized 11 June 1760

* Isaac Noad, baptized 23 August 1763

d) James and Ann (--?--) Noad, of West Kington, Wiltshire:

* James Noad, baptized 16 January 1760

* Isaac Noad, baptized 23 January 1763

e) Rid and Mary (--?--) Noad of Chilton Follat, Wiltshire:

* John Noad, baptized 14 February 1756

f) Henry and Mary (--?--) Noad of Swindon, Wiltshire:

* Henry Noad, baptized 9 April 1765

* Mary Noad, baptized 7 June 1768

g) John and Elizabeth (--?--) Noad of Swindon, Wiltshire:

* William Noad, baptized 28 November 1750, buried 25 January 1753

* Thomas Noad, baptized 7 June 1752, buried 7 April 1753

* William Noad, baptized 13 March 1754

* Elizabeth Noad, wife of John, buried 22 October 1767.

* John Noad buried 11 May 1768.

Only 21 of them in seven families. I'm glad the surname wasn't Rich or Richman or something more common!

There were other burials in West Kington and Swindon for names not baptized or named as parents in the baptism records.

Not much to go on yet - no Elizabeth/Betty Noad baptisms, but there are at least two families in Trowbridge that had children between 1750 and 1770. John Noad, the father of the a) set of children, likely died in 1764, which means that they had no children born after 1764. It is possible that Elizabeth/Betty Noad was the daughter of William and Grace Noad of Trowbridge.

4) Plan C. Who married in the 1770 to 1800 time frame and might be a sibling of Elizabeth/Betty?

I searched the Noad listings in the Wiltshire Marriages and Banns, 1754-1916 collection on Ancestry and found:

a) In Trowbridge:

* William Noad married Ann Jenkins, 13 February 1781.

* John Noad and Mary Powell, 7 May 1786.

* William Noad and Sarah Roper, 22 July 1787.

* Betty Noad and William Rich, 27 January 1788.

b) In Swindon:

* William Noad and Mary Parsons, 4 February 1770.

* Henry Noad and Anne Balson, 9 August 1772.

* John Noad and Ann Batson/Balson, 28 May 1772.

* Richard Noad and Jane Lester, 11 March 1790.

c) There are several in other towns.

5) What else is there?

a) Probate records. Especially for Trowbridge and Swindon families.

b) What other records?

c) Is there a record for John Noad with the same hand as in the marriage record?

d) Online family trees.

e) Trowbridge is in the western part of Wiltshire, and is relatively near the eastern part of Somerset, and there may be Noad families in Somerset in this time frame.

6) I am not ready to draw a conclusion to this problem because I don't have enough data. I've spent a good 10 to 12 hours working on this in the last three weeks.

7) If a Genea-Musings reader has suggestions, I would love to hear them! Please leave a comment or send me an email.

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Are You Ready for the 1921 Census of England & Wales? Buckle Up!!

The 1921 Census of England & Wales will be released to the public on Thursday, 6 January 2022 at 12:01 AM England time, exclusively available online on record provider Findmypast.

Some information from the landing page:

What is the 1921 Census of England and Wales?

The 1921 Census is a detailed snapshot of 38 million lives, available online only at findmypast.com from January 6, 2022. We're delighted to have been chosen by The National Archives to bring it to you.

Why is the 1921 Census so important?

Firstly, the 1931 Census was destroyed in a fire. Then, the 1941 Census was canceled due to World War Two. That leaves the 1921 Census to set the scene for a key point in history.

It’s also the most revealing record set up to that time – it was the first census to recognize divorce, and to capture people’s employment details. For the first time, you'll see all the family secrets and surprises that this interwar census brings.

How much will the census cost?

$3.50 US for every record transcript and $4.90 US for every original record image.

This will cover the cost of digitizing and transcribing the 18,235,242 images created from the records supplied exclusively to us by The National Archives. It means these precious records are accessible, commitment-free, for everyone.

For all 12-month Ultimate subscribers, there will be a 10% discount on any 1921 Census purchases.

More about life in 1921

The 1920s in Britain was a decade of contrasts. The early years brought the Roaring Twenties. War was over and women were more independent than ever before. But by the mid-20s, the economy had declined, unemployment spiked and worker strikes were rife.

For the first time, our ancestors enjoyed commercial flights, crosswords, and rollercoasters. And the BBC started broadcasting in 1922.

Families were getting smaller and children stayed in school longer. The middle classes and aristocracy enjoyed Downton Abbey-style country estates, while overcrowded Victorian terraces and newly-built two-up-two-down council houses filled the towns and cities.

The golden age of cinema and the Jazz Age brought with them flapper girls, sea shanties, and party culture. Women's haircuts and hemlines got shorter.

As the nation recovered from the horrors of war and a pandemic, people rebuilt their lives, unaware that the next generation would face another global conflict.

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Linda at Fisherman's Wharf in September 2004 -- Post 701 of (Not So) Wordless Wednesday

I can't help it, I can't do a wordless post! This is one of my favorite photographs:

In early September 2004, we drove north to the San Francisco Bay area to celebrate the first birthday of our first grandchild, Lucas, in the Santa Cruz area. Linda wanted to visit her favorite places in San Francisco too, so we spent a fun day being tourists.

This is Linda at Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco in the After the Quake shop. I don't recall if we bought anything there but she's smiling. Maybe she bought some earthquake angels, or some angel earrings.

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Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Genealogy News and Education Bytes -- Tuesday, 4 January 2022

Welcome to Genealogy News and Education Bytes, posted on Tuesday afternoon and Friday afternoon, where we try to highlight the most important genealogy and family history news and education items that came across our desktop since the last issue.

1) News Articles:

* 2021: MyHeritage Year in Review

* New List View for Photos on MyHeritage

* NEW! Season 8 of Finding Your Roots on PBS Tonight!

* My wife gave me a DNA test kit for Hanukkah. The family secrets it revealed changed my life

* Woman Gives Parents DNA Testing Kit, Finds Out Her Mother Lied to Her about Biological Dad

* Scientists Settled a Century-Old Family Drama Using DNA From Postcards

2) New or Updated Record Collections:

* Added and Updated FamilySearch.org Record Collections - Week of 25 to 31 December 2021

* 1921 Census of England and Wales to be released January 6, 2022

* 95 Million Historic U.S. Newspaper Pages Now Available from Advantage Archives

* GenealogyBank Adds/Updates 31 Titles – January 2022

3) Genealogy Education -- Conferences and Institutes

* Conference Keeper Calendar

* RootsTech Connect 2022 - 3-5 March 2022 (Virtual)

* NGS 2022 Family History Conference - May 24-28, 2022 (In-Person!)

4) Genealogy Education - Seminars, Webinars and Online Classes (times are US Pacific):

* Conference Keeper Calendar

* Family History Library Webinar Calendar for January 2022

* MyHeritage Online Events for December & January

* Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Wednesday, 5 January, 11 a.m.: The Only Thing You Need to Know About DNA and Genealogy, by Diahan Southard

* Upcoming Family Tree Webinar - Friday, 7 January, 11 a.m.: Researching during the slave era (1817-1865), by Shelley Viola Murphy

5) Genealogy Education - Podcasts/Radio Shows:

* Research Like a Pro: RLP 182: American Nations Part 1 with Heidi Mathis

* The Genealogy Guys Podcast: #399

* The Photo Detective: Episode 161: Creating a Digital Archive with Permanent.org

* Ancestral Findings: AF-565: The Seventeenth Amendment: The Constitutional Amendments | Ancestral Findings Podcast

6) Genealogy Videos (YouTube and Facebook):

* Cousin Russ: 1950 Census Preparation - Bread Crumbs

* Cousin Russ: 1950 Census - Google Maps

* FamilySearch: Navigating Patronymics in Scandinavian Research, Part 1; Part 2; Part 3

* Genealogy With Amy Johnson Crow: Start Your Genealogy Research Right - Avoid These Common Mistakes!

* GeneaVlogger: How to determine what DNA came from each parent - Reviewing YOUR DNA Professional Genealogist Reacts

* MyHeritage: Ask The Expert - DNA Basic

7) Did you miss the last post in this series - Genealogy News and Education Bytes - 31 December 2021?

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Introducing List View for Photos on MyHeritage

I received this today from Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage:

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I’m happy to announce the release of the new List view for photos on MyHeritage, designed for convenient editing and sorting of the details in your family photos. This addition will delight our users who love historical photos, especially those who have hundreds, or thousands of photos uploaded.

Over the past two years, we’ve released innovative new tools to help you gain insights into your family photos. As we’ve become the #1 destination for uploading and enhancing old family photos, with features such as MyHeritage In Color™, Photo Enhancer, Photo Repair, and Deep Nostalgia™, users have been uploading millions of photos to our platform, and we wanted to make it easier to organize, document and tag them.

The new List view allows you to see thumbnails of your photos along with the meta-data relating to each photo, including the title, the people tagged in the photo, and the date and place where the photo was taken. Missing information can then be entered inline, easily. To access the new List view, visit the My Photos section of your family site and click on the list icon in the top right corner of the page.

Please spread the word about this exciting and useful addition to MyHeritage, and read more about the List view for photos in the blog post.

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Disclosure: I receive a complimentary subscription to MyHeritage, and have received other material consideration in past years. I uploaded my autosomal DNA raw data to their DNA product. This does not affect my objective analysis of MyHeritage products.

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Carringers in the News -- The Lyle L. Carringer Gardens in San Diego in 1935

It's time for another edition of "Carringers in the News" - a weekly feature from the historical newspapers about persons with the surname Carringer (my mother's maiden surname) that are interesting, useful, mysterious, fun, macabre, or add information to my family tree database.

This week's entry is from the San Diego [Calif.] Union newspaper dated 24 March 1935:

The transcription of the article is:

"Carringer Gardens, Model of Beauty,

Have Also Wealth of Entertainment

By Ada Perry

"Mr. and Mrs. Lyle L. Carringer, 2130 Fern st., are never bored with their garden. They have four fish pools in it filled with finny pets that are always on the move. Sometimes they move out on the grass but the Carringers chalk this up to playfulness and continue to enjoy the aquatic aspects of their home.

"The Carringer place is distinctly in the livable small garden or outdoor living room class. The pools are strategically located to invite folks outdoors for pleasure and relaxation. One pool, the smallest, is placed near the rear door of the house as a starting point. From there to a sunny larger pool planted to lilies and overhung with shrubs is a natural step.

"Other parts of the garden planted to flowers, cacti and succulents and several fruit trees are easily accessible from the second pool and then the Carringers and their friends naturally gravitate to a lath house furnished with chairs and tables.

"There are sources of amusement in the lath house. The remaining pools are located there. One is a rill in the heart of a pretty rockery and the other a shadowy oval presided over by a rice plant with curving stalks topped with laves like giant hands. Directly above the pool a tree fern rests apparently on the water. The invisible stand which holds it up represents some clever household ingenuity. It was formerly a piano stool.

"A grill is built at the end of the lath house on a rock structure. The grill space can be filled with a decorative potted plant when not in use although the Carringers have found it a consistent entertainer.

"Next the grill in a glass house annex is a surprise feature. On shelves are aquariums filled with tropical fish, paradise, moons, guppies, and other fancy swimmers weaving about in grassy water jungles; blinking, gobbling and raising families in the most distracting style. The glass house is heated for them and each aquarium has individual radiators and thermometers for perfect comfort.

"Tropical aquariums are often kept indoors but the Carringers have theirs handy to the pools where fish life from goldfish to guppies can be observed. Certain of the tropicals are moved to the goldfish pools at favorable times for variety."

The source citation is:

"Carringer Gardens, Model of Beauty,Have Also Wealth of Entertainment," San Diego [Calif.] Union newspaper, Sunday, 24 March 1935, page 18, columns 5-6, Lyle L. Carringer garden article; GenealogyBank, Newspaper Archives (https://www.genealogybank.com : accessed 3 January 2022).

Lyle L. Carringer (1891-1976) and Emily Kemp (Auble) Carringer (1899-1977) are my maternal grandparents. The built the house at 2130 Fern Street in San Diego in 1920, and resided there for about 30 years. My mother grew up in that house and garden. Lyle loved to build things and was very creative. Emily was a horticultural expert and loved the gardens. My guess is that building and maintaining the gardens, the pools, the lath house and the glass house were evening and weekend projects for the whole family. I have very distant memories of playing in the lath house and glass house and recall the goldfish pools as a young boy. After 1946, my family lived in the building on the south side of the gardens. They sold this house in 1950 and the new owner built a fence to wall off his property.

There are hundreds of Carringer "stories" in my family tree - and this was one of them. Life happens, accidentally and intentionally, and sometimes a newspaper article provides more detail about your very close family. I am glad that I can honor my grandparents, Lyle and Emily (Auble) Carringer, today.

You never know when a descendant or relative will find this blog post and learn something about their ancestors or relatives, or will provide more information about them to me.

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Disclosure: I have a paid subscription to GenealogyBank.com and have used it extensively to find articles about my ancestral and one-name families.

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Monday, January 3, 2022

Genealogy Pot-Pourri - Week Ending 3 January 2022

Here are the highlights of my family history and genealogy related activities over the past week.

1) Worked on my year-end posts all week - see Randy's "Best Of" Genea-Musings Posts in 2021; Top 50 Most Viewed Posts in 2021 on Genea-Musings; RootsMagic Genealogy Database Statistics Update - 1 January 2022; Randy's Genealogy Activity Highlights for 2021.

2) Transcribed a deed record in 1755 Deed of Unis Sever of Sudbury, Mass. Selling Land in Narragansett No. 2 to Luke Brown for Amanuensis Monday.

3) Published a genealogy biography of #635 Ruth (Cutler) (Smith) Upham (1668-1738) of Charlestown and Reading, Massachusetts.

4) Worked in the MyHeritage "Matches by source" feature in Rabbit Holes With Randy - Using the MyHeritage "Matches By Source" Feature.

5) AncestryDNA added 0 new DNA matches this past week, but there was one new ThruLines, and MyHeritage added 16 new DNA matches. Reviewed the new DNA matches on AncestryDNA, MyHeritageDNA, FamilyTreeDNA and 23andMe. Researched and added notes for 7 AncestryDNA matches.

6) There were several sessions working in the RootsMagic software program to match with and update FamilySearch Family Tree profiles for Seaver families and my ancestral families, with occasional additions to the RootsMagic profiles. I have matched 46,603 of my RootsMagic persons with FamilySearch Family Tree profiles (up 217).

7) Used Web Hints and Record Matches from Ancestry, MyHeritage, Findmypast and FamilySearch to add content and source citations to my RootsMagic profiles. I now have 68,033 persons in my RootsMagic file (up 221 from last week), and 143,831 source citations (up 98). I TreeShared 399 new or modified profiles with my Ancestry Member Tree, and I resolved 1681 Ancestry Hints. My newest Ancestry Member Tree has Ancestry Record Hints with 21,274 to be resolved, but I work on them almost daily.

8) Wrote 19 Genea-Musings blog posts the past week, of which two were a press release. The most viewed post the past week was Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- What Are Your 2022 Plans/Goals/Resolutions for Your Genealogy Research with over 319 views.

9) I am still fine here at the Genea-Cave, hunkered down and not going out much after Week 94 of COVID-19 semi-isolation. Linda is at a memory care and skilled nursing facility in Chula Vista 7 miles from home and I visit her for an hour every day - we usually play Uno and she wins about half the time. I went to Huntington Beach on Saturday to visit Tami and her family - watched football, ate pizza, had some fun with the grandkids, including a Baskin-Robbins ice cream cone! The Chargers won their game on Sunday. I went to the grocery store on Monday and Friday. Other than that, it was stay-at-home on the computer doing (mainly) genealogy, plus eating, sleeping, laundry, cleaning, cooking, watching TV news and sports, reading books, napping, and no yard work.

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2021 MyHeritage Year In Review

I received this from Daniel Horowitz of MyHeritage today:

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It’s been an incredible year for us here at MyHeritage! We released several new photo features, cementing our position as the prime destination for uploading and sharing family photos. Our groundbreaking Deep Nostalgia™ feature that animates faces in still photos went completely viral, with millions of animations being created in just the first few days after its release. Thanks to Deep Nostalgia™, the MyHeritage mobile app made it to the very top of the App Store, and was the most popular free app in 22 countries! We also added multiple tools for making DNA Matches more useful and easier to work with.

18 years after our founding, MyHeritage was acquired by Francisco Partners, a leading global investment firm. Francisco Partners are perfectly aligned with our mission and together we are working as hard as ever to improve the future of family history.

MyHeritage is committed to adding historical records from around the world to further family history research. In August, we acquired Filae, a leading genealogy service in France. MyHeritage users have already enjoyed access to nearly one billion exclusive French historical records that have been added to MyHeritage as a result of this acquisition.

And those are just a few of the highlights!

We’ve compiled a comprehensive blog post and a nice infographic (above) summarizing our activities and accomplishments during 2021. Please feel free to share the post and the visual with your readers and followers.

And stay tuned, because there are plenty of exciting things on the horizon for 2022!

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Amanuensis Monday -- 1755 Deed of Unis Sever of Sudbury, Mass. Selling Land in Narragansett No. 2 to Luke Brown

This week's document for transcription is the 1755 deed record for Unis Sever, widow of Sudbury selling Lot number 70 in Narragansett No. 2 to Luke Brown, Gentleman of Worcester, for 20 pounds.

[Worcester County, Mass. Deeds - Volume 36, Page 270]:

The transcription of this deed is (on the left-hand page of the image):

[page 270]

To all People to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting.

Know Ye, That I Unis Sever of Sudbury in y'e County of Middlesex Widow admx of y'e Estate

of my Late Husband Robert Sever late of Narragansett N'o. 2 so called in y'e County of Worcester Husbandman having obtained Licence

from his majestys Superior Court of Judicialure &c held at Worcester within and for y'e County of Worcester on the third Tuesday of Sept. 1754

to sell the whole of the said Deceased Real Estate consisting of about one hundred & Sixty acres by y'e payment of his Just Debts

en by an order of said Court may more fully appear and having attended the Derections of y'e Law Relating to said Sale do

For and in Consideration of the Sum of Twenty pounds Lawfull money

to me in Hand before the Ensealing hereof, well and truly paid by Luke Brown of

Worcester Gent he being y'e highest bidder at a Publick vendue

the Receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge,

and my self therewith fully satisfied and contented; and thereof and of every Part

and Parcel thereof, do exonerate, acquit and discharge the said Luke Brown

his Heirs, Executors and Administrators,

forever by these Presents; Have given, granted, bargained, sold aliened, conveyed and

confirmed; and by these Presents, do freely, fully and absolutely give, grant., bargain, sell,

aliene, convey and confirm, unto him the said Luke Brown his Heirs and Assigns forever, In my Capacity

and by Virtue of said order of Court, part of the Deceased Real Estate Lying in said Narragansett N'o. 2

vizt a Certain Lott of Land Containing Sixty acres be y'e same more or less originally y'e Right of Mr. Dennis

Headly and is in number Seventy as may be seen by y'e Platt thereof and Lyes near Weuchusets Pond socalled

said Lott of Land y'e Deed in his Life Time with the Divisions thereto belonging purchased of Josiah

Brown Esq by Deed Dated y'e 20'th Day of November 1750 appears and what is now conveyed is

the same Lott Exclusive of y'e said Divisions and after Draughts thereto belonging said Lott being

a home Lott.

To have and to Hold the said granted and bargained Premises, with all the

Appurtenances, Privileges and Commodities to the same belonging, or in any wise apper-

taining to him the said Luke Brown his

Heirs and Assigns forever. To his and their only proper Use, Benefit and Behoof forever.

And I the said Unis Sever in my s'd Capacity & by Virtue of s'd Order of Court for

myself my Heirs, Executors and Administrators, do covenant, promise and grant to and with

the said Luke Brown his

Heirs and Assigns, that ~~before~~ the ~~Ensealing hereof~~ dec'd was the true sole and lawful Owner of

the above-bargained Premises, and was lawfully seized and possessed of the same in his own

proper Right, as a good perfect and absolute Estate of Inheritance in Fee Simple: And I have in by

Virtue of s'd Order good Right, full Power, and lawful Authority, to grant, bargain, sell, convey

and confirm, said bargained Premises in manner as aforesaid: And that the said Luke

Brown his Heirs and Assigns, shall and may

from Time to Time, and at all Times forever hereafter, by Force and Virtue of these Pre-

sents, lawfully, peacably and quietly Have, Hold, Use, Occupy, Possess and Enjoy the said

demised and bargained Premises, with the Appurtenances, free and clear, and freely and

clearly acquitted, exonerated and discharged of, from all and all manner of former or other

Gifts, Grants, Baregains, Sales, Leases, Mortgages, Wills, Entails, Jointures, Dowries

Judgments, Executions, or Incumbrances of what Name of Nature soever, that might in any

Measure or Degree obstruct or make void this present Deed.

Furthermore, I the said Unis Sever in my Capacity for my-self my Heirs,

Executors and Administrators, do Covenant and Engage the above demised Premises to him

the said Luke Brown his Heirs and

Assigns, against the lawful Claims or Demands of any Person or Persons whatsoever, forever

hereafter to Warrant, secure and Defend by these Presents. In Witness whereof I have

in my Capacity by Virtue of said order of Court hereunto set my hand & seal this 4'th Day of Febry

AD - 1755. her

Signed sealed & Deliv'd Unis + Sever {seal}

In presence of mark

J C Chandler

Timo Paine Worcester ss April 7'th 1755 Unis Sever in her Capacity

acknowledged this Instrument to be her act & Deed

Coram J. Chandler Just Pac.

April 7'th 1755 Rec'd and Accordingly entred & Exam'd pr J. Chandler Reg'r

The source citation for this land record is:

"Massachusetts, Land Records, 1620-1986," digital images, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org : accessed 20 November 2021), Worcester County, "Deeds 1754-1756, vol. 35-36," Volume 36, Page 270 (image 535 of 695), deed of Unis Sever to Luke Brown, executed 4 February 1755, recorded 7 April 1755; citing original records in County Courthouses, and on FHL Microfilms.

This deed is for Lot number 70 in Narragansett No. 2, later named as Westminster town. Robert Sever paid 60 pounds for this lot northwest of Mount Wachusett in central Massachusetts in 1750. Robert Sever died in 1752, and widow Eunice Sever sold the land in this deed to Luke Brown of Worcester for 20 pounds at auction.

Robert Sever (1702-1752) was the son of Joseph and Mary (Read) Sever of Framingham, Massachusetts. He married Eunice Rayment (1707-1772) on 2 September 1726 in Boston, and they had nine children. Robert and Eunice (Rayment) Sever are my 6th great-grandparents through their son Norman Seaver (1734-1787).

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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."

Read other transcriptions for records of my ancestors at Amanuensis Monday Posts.

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