Deeds, 1759-1819 Digital

Contains original and copies of deeds to property in Ipswich, Hallowell, and Raymond Township, and rights to commonage, to John Heard and others, dated 1759-1819. Included are deeds to an Ipswich distillery business transferred among William Story, Ebenezer Pemberton, Heard, William Dodge, and Royall Tyler and Nathaniel Hatch, a writ of possession related to the estate of James Bowdoin, and deeds of Ipswich land to Heard from Hannah Rogers and Martha Staniford, as well as a deed to a warehouse and one-sixth part of a wharf from Nathaniel Farley. There is also a 1778 deed from Nehemiah Abbot, an Ipswich baker serving in the Continental Army, to John Heard for a tract of land in Ipswich bordering Susannah Stacey's (possibly Swasey's) tavern house; and a deed of a house on Union Street in Boston from upholsterer Moses Grant to Heard in 1794.