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Seller(s) Name: Hopkins, Rebecca. Buyer(s) Name: Hopkins, Asa. Witness(es) Name (other than Justice of the Peace): Hopkins, Curtis [?]. Justice of the Peace: Sparrow, Isaac. Other Names Mentioned: Hopkins, Elkanah; Twining, Barnabas; Linnell, Edmund; Hopkins, Prissilla.
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c247j4349
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Deed of property in Brewster sold to Asa Hopkins by Rebecca Hopkins of Orleans
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c247j4349
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title
Deed of property in Brewster sold to Asa Hopkins by Rebecca Hopkins of Orleans
description
Seller(s) Name: Hopkins, Rebecca. Buyer(s) Name: Hopkins, Asa. Witness(es) Name (other than Justice of the Peace): Hopkins, Curtis [?]. Justice of the Peace: Sparrow, Isaac. Other Names Mentioned: Hopkins, Elkanah; Twining, Barnabas; Linnell, Edmund; Hopkins, Prissilla.
date
["September 30, 1820"]
year
1820
rights
No known copyright restrictions. Please credit Sturgis Library.
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No known restrictions on use.
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no restrictions
language
English
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SSDeeds.1.3.1820.2
institution
Sturgis Library
collections
Stanley Smith Deed Collection
subjectsGeographic
Barnstable (county)
Brewster
Massachusetts
North and Central America
United States
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Documents
Manuscripts
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Deeds
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Text
country
United States
state
Massachusetts
county
Barnstable
city
Brewster
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1
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1 item
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c247j3008
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c247j301j
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41.75
schema:longitude
-70.0833
notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
The deed is for two pieces of land, the first having a northern boundary of 40 poles, a western boundary of two poles, a southern boundary of 40 poles and an eastern boundary of two poles; second piece of land has western boundary of 12 poles, a northern boundary of nine poles, an eastern boundary of 12 poles and a southern boundary of 12 poles; Rebecca Hopkins is also giving up "all my Rite on that wood Land which was improved by Prissilla Hopkins of Orleans Decesed."
Price: $18
Finding aid available at: http://www.sturgislibrary.org/pdf/stanley_smith_deed_collection.pdf
Transaction keyword(s): wood land, Grasey (Grassy) nook, stone, halfway hill, Rite (dower right?)
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