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Lincoln, Benjamin (1733-1810) Quit Claim Deed

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.07435 Author/Creator: Lincoln, Benjamin (1733-1810) Place Written: [Boston, Massachusetts] Type: Document signed Date: 30 July 1800 Pagination: 1 p. : docket ; 30.1 x 20 cm. Order a Copy

Partially printed deed releasing a "certain tract of Land lying within the Waldo Patent in the county of Hancock" from Benjamin Lincoln and Henry Jackson to Benjamin Joy. James Lovell and William Stevenson sign as witnesses.

Jackson, Henry, 1747-1809
Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810
Joy, Benjamin, 1758-1830
Stevenson, William, fl. 1800
Lovell, James, 1737-1814

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