Box MSS VF 33
Contains 47 Results:
Abijah Sumner estate administrator's account, 1786 Digital
Account of Abijah Sumner with expenses related to administering the estate of Samuel Sumner, of Milton, Massachusetts, signed by a probate judge and dated 1786.
Assorted American and British estate records, 1810-1891
The Vertical file collection on law and lawyers consists of unbound manuscripts, including material on estate management, property transactions, apprenticeships, and financial obligations, dated 1604-1891.
Lydall Buck apprenticeship indenture, 1711 Digital
1711 bond of indenture of two-year-old Lydall Buck from Boston shopkeeper Seth Dwight to Mendon cordwainer Stephen Ports. Lydall Buck’s mother, Jane Buck, was herself indentured to Dwight.
Assorted indentures, 1814-1844
Includes indentures in New York, Massachusetts, and North Carolina, such as an 1827 indenture for Charles Smith, and African-American boy aged 11 years 6 months, to apprentice with farmer Henry Scudder of Huntington New York.
Agreements, wills, probate records, 1666-1777 Digital
Agreements, wills, probate records, 1812-1857
The Vertical file collection on law and lawyers consists of unbound manuscripts, including material on estate management, property transactions, apprenticeships, and financial obligations, dated 1604-1891.
English deeds, 1604-1684
The Vertical file collection on law and lawyers consists of unbound manuscripts, including material on estate management, property transactions, apprenticeships, and financial obligations, dated 1604-1891.
Edward Tyng deeds, 1646-1651 Digital
Contains copies of deeds from Boston brewer Edward Tyng to Henry Webb for waterfront property near Boston Harbor, dated 1646, and to shoemaker James Everill for his wharf, dated 1651.
Bendall's Dock, 1651-1684 Digital
Stephen Batson deed to John Wakefield, 1652 Digital
Copy of a deed transferring a house and marsh land on Drakes Island, in Wells, Maine (then Massachusetts), from Stephen Batson (1610-1676) to John Wakefield, dated 1652.
Boston deeds [copies], 1653-1668 Digital
Contains copies of deeds to land and buildings in Boston, dated 1653-1668, including a deed of land and a house from farmer John Grover of Boston to his widowed daughter-in-law, Hannah Grover; deed of property comprising a shop, wharf, dwelling home, and other lands, from Boston cooper James Mattocks to his newly married son, Samuel; and deed of land and a warehouse from James Nash of Weymouth, Massachusetts, to Boston merchant Thomas Dean.
Boston deeds [copies], 1669-1687 Digital
Henry Faine deeds, 1659-1672 Digital
Copies of deeds from Boston tanner Henry Faine to cooper Richard Way for land and a dwelling house, dated 1659, and to cooper Henry Cooley for a shop in the North End of Boston, dated 1672.
William Brenton deed to Thomas Peck, 1665 Digital
Deed of land in Boston from Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Deputy Governor William Brenton of Newport, to Boston shipwright Thomas Peck, dated 1665. The land abutted waterfront property already owned by Peck.
Deeds – Charlestown and Weymouth, Massachusetts, 1666-1691 Digital
Includes a 1666 copy of deed of property in Charlestown and Malden, Massachusetts, including a dwelling house and barn, from Casco, Maine, mason George Felt and Boston yeoman John Phillips, signed in 1664. The document includes information on how the division of land among property owners including Felt was marked on trees. Also contains an original deed of land, a dwelling house, and a barn, from Samuel Pitty of Weymouth to his brother, William Pitty, dated 1691.
Theodore Atkinson deeds, 1671 Digital
Contains copies of deeds of land from Boston felt maker Theodore Atkinson to his children, Ebenezer and Abigail, and to Harvard College Librarian and Resident Tutor Daniel Gookin (1650-1718; Harvard AB 1669) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, dated 1671. The land sold to Gookins was near Fort Hill in Roxbury, abutting property Atkinson had sold to John and Nathaniel Green of Cambridge and Cotton Mather.
Samuel Nowell deed to Eleazer Bateman, 1685 Digital
Deed of a land in Charlestown, Massachusetts, from Samuel Nowel of Boston to Woburn carpenter Eleazer Bateman, dated 1685. Nowell and his mother were granted the property at the time of the division of common land of Charlestown; his father, Increase Nowell, was a founder of the town.
Jonathan Browne deed to John Charnock, 1716 Digital
Deed of land in Boston from bricklayer Jonathan Browne to merchant John Charnock, dated 1716.
Thomas Moody deed to Samuel Rolf, 1727 Digital
Deed of land in Newbury, Massachusetts, from Thomas Moody (1668-1737) to joiner Samuel Rolf, dated 1727.
John Storer land record, 1729 Digital
Copies of a record of land granted by the town of Wells, Maine, to John Storer (1694-1768), dated 1729/30, and record of the grant of the same land to Benjamin Storer in 1670. The records were copied from the Wells Town Book.
Boston deeds [copies], 1731-1795 Digital
Copies of deeds to land in Boston, including Boston cutler Michael Willis' deed to tobacconist Thomas Watkins granting passage from the street over Willis' property to land belonging to Watkins; deed of land in Boston from Mary Dennison (1701-1756), of Ispwich, Massachusetts, to shipwright William Lee; and a deed from William Hickling to Job Prince for a brick home on King Street in Boston and a distillery.
Asaph Churchill receipt to Mary Taylor, 1799 Digital
Receipt from attorney and politican Asaph Churchill (1765-1841; Harvard AB 1789) of Dorchester, Massachusetts, for two notes of hand from Mary Taylor, dated 1799.
Craig Bellas & Co. letter to McCudy & Caldwell, 1842
The Vertical file collection on law and lawyers consists of unbound manuscripts, including material on estate management, property transactions, apprenticeships, and financial obligations, dated 1604-1891.
John Bacon estate papers, 1684 Digital
Contains a decision and articles of agreement with the administrators of the estate of John Bacon, of Dedham, Massachusetts, related to property willed to his wife and children, dated 1684.