- Collection : Stanley Smith Deed Collection
- Finding aid link : http://www.sturgislibrary.org/pdf/stanley_smith_deed_collection.pdf
- Unique ID : SSDeeds.1.3.1848.2
- Property Town : Brewster
- Selling date : 1848-04-18
- Buyer(s) name(s) : Freeman, Edward
- Buyer(s) residence(s) : Orleans
- Seller(s) name(s) : Atwood, Nehemiah
- Seller(s) residence(s) : Brewster
- Acreage : 0.25
- Price : $30
- Justice of the Peace : Freeman, Nathaniel
- Date recorded by Justice of the Peace : 1848-04-18
- Witnesses : Nickerson, Sally; Atwood (wife of Nehemiah Atwood), Mercy
- Other names mentioned : Knowles, Eliza
- Original date recorded by Registrar : 0000-00-00
- Transaction keywords : peace (piece) of peat swamp, maple swamp field, upland, stake, stone, swamp, drain, shades (sheds? possibly stands?), road, long road, dwelling house, "write" (right) of dower
- Book of Evidences of Land & folio (or page) : no information
- Archives folder : 3
- Notes : Nehemiah Atwood described as "yeoman"; Edmond Freeman described as "machanic" (mechanic); property is 40 rods total; property has a northern boundary of 10 rods, an eastern boundary of four rods, a southern boundary of 10 rods and a western boundary of four rods; deed contains the priviledges of draining the swamp, building "one or to" structures (sheds?) to house the peat and building a road "to and from" the swamp; Mercy Atwood quits her right of dower; several instances of homonyms used ("write" instead of "right," "to" instead of "two").
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