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    "title": "Deed of property in Brewster sold to Eli Small of Harwich by Ensign Nickerson of Chatham",
    "description": "Seller(s) Name: Nickerson, Ensign. Buyer(s) Name: Small, Eli. Witness(es) Name (other than Justice of the Peace): Eldredge, Oliver. Justice of the Peace: Eldredge, William. Other Names Mentioned: Cahoon, Molly, Widow; Forster [?], Freemon; Crosbe [Crosby?], Abijah; Freeman, Seth; Davis, Job C. (original registrar); Bangs, Dean (1829 registrar).",
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    "year": 1815,
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        "Title supplied by cataloger.",
        "Ensign Nickerson described as \"yeoman\"; Eli Small described as \"miller\"; first white oak tree is described as \"marked on fore sides\"; deed re-recorded in County Record Book for the Town of Brewster on January 16, 1829.",
        "Acreage: 3",
        "Price: $63.50",
        "Finding aid available at: http://www.sturgislibrary.org/pdf/stanley_smith_deed_collection.pdf",
        "Book of Evidences of Land, Folio (or page): 75th, 181; No. 1, page 290",
        "Transaction keyword(s): peace (piece) or lot of wood land, dwelling house, white oak tree marked, red oak tree marked"
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