• Collection : Stanley Smith Deed Collection
  • Finding aid link : http://www.sturgislibrary.org/pdf/stanley_smith_deed_collection.pdf
  • Unique ID : SSDeeds.5.2.1812.6
  • Property Town : Orleans
  • Selling date : 1812-08-12
  • Buyer(s) name(s) : Smith, Nehemiah
  • Buyer(s) residence(s) : Eastham
  • Seller(s) name(s) : Smith, Josiah; Smith, Elisha
  • Seller(s) residence(s) : Orleans
  • Acreage : 3 ("Tons" ?); 1/4 acre
  • Price : $60
  • Justice of the Peace : Freeman, Solomon
  • Date recorded by Justice of the Peace : 1812-08-12; 1812-08-14
  • Witnesses : Snow, Jonathan; Snow, Gideon, S.; Kingman, Simeon
  • Other names mentioned : Nickerson, Nathaniel; Young, Moses; Knowles, William; Smith, Richard; Smith, Silvanus; Davis, Job C.
  • Original date recorded by Registrar : 1814-05-24
  • Transaction keywords : "Meddow," i.e. meadow, fence, rods, lane, land, island, yeoman, mariner
  • Book of Evidences of Land & folio (or page) : Barnstable, Book 73, Folio 189
  • Archives folder : 2
  • Notes : Josiah and Elisha Smith were both yeomen, and Nehemiah Smith was a mariner. They sold half of the lot undivided with Nathaniel Nickerson. The bounds went from Moses Young land to a fence, to William Knowles' land, northeast 21 rods from his land to Richard Smith's lane, and then 9 rods, 14 feet to Silvanus Smith's "meddow." Also a piece of land called the island, about 1/4 acre.
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