• Collection : Stanley Smith Deed Collection
  • Finding aid link : http://www.sturgislibrary.org/pdf/stanley_smith_deed_collection.pdf
  • Unique ID : SSDeeds.2.2.1789.1
  • Property Town : Chatham
  • Selling date : 1789-04-23
  • Buyer(s) name(s) : Atwood, Sears
  • Buyer(s) residence(s) : Chatham
  • Seller(s) name(s) : Godfrey, Benjamin; Hamilton, Thomas
  • Seller(s) residence(s) : Chatham
  • Acreage :
  • Price : 1 pound 5 shillings
  • Justice of the Peace : Doane, Joseph
  • Date recorded by Justice of the Peace : 1796-09-11
  • Witnesses : Godfrey, Sarah; Eldredge, Mary
  • Other names mentioned : David, Daniel; Bacon, Eben (Ebenezer); Nye Isaiah
  • Original date recorded by Registrar : 1796-10-10
  • Transaction keywords : meadow land, Great Beach, Hamilton's Beach (or Bend), Harwich
  • Book of Evidences of Land & folio (or page) : 49th book Folio 72
  • Archives folder : 2
  • Notes : Benjamin Godfrey, Esq. is listed as the Administrator for the estate of Thomas Hamilton. Sears Atwood is described as a "yeoman."

    Written in another hand on the back of the deed is "Recorded and compared Bk 2, Folio 80, per me, Isaiah Nye, Town Reg. of Deeds."
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