• Collection : Stanley Smith Deed Collection
  • Finding aid link : http://www.sturgislibrary.org/pdf/stanley_smith_deed_collection.pdf
  • Unique ID : SSDeeds.3.3.1746.3
  • Property Town : Eastham
  • Selling date : 1746-04-03
  • Buyer(s) name(s) : Gold, Nathaniel
  • Buyer(s) residence(s) : Harwich
  • Seller(s) name(s) : Higgins, Joshua
  • Seller(s) residence(s) : Eastham
  • Acreage : N/A
  • Price : 15 pounds (in “bills of credit”)
  • Justice of the Peace : Doane, Joseph
  • Date recorded by Justice of the Peace : 1746-04-03
  • Witnesses : Doane, Desire
  • Other names mentioned : Otis, Solomon
  • Original date recorded by Registrar : 1747-01-20
  • Transaction keywords : Upland meadow; sedge ground
  • Book of Evidences of Land & folio (or page) : book 22, folio 163
  • Archives folder : 3
  • Notes : Joshua Higgins and Nathaniel Gold are both listed as yeomen. The Town of Eastham originally granted to Joshua Higgins a “one hundred and thirty seventh part of common and undivided” land as one of 137 inhabitants of the town in 1743. Solomon Otis is listed as registrar.
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