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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,
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    "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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