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1749/04/20
Cutler, Timothy (fl. 1749)
Attestation that the widow of a surgeon serving under William Pepperell is still alive and without a pension.
GLC01450.305
8 December 1729
Dumaresq, Phillip (fl. 1729-1738)
[Deed between Dumaresq and Thomas Fitch]
Captain Dumaresq acknowledges receipt of £500 from Fritch for a house and tract of land. Cosigned by Phillip's wife Susanna. Countersigned by Samuel Tyby and Gabriel [LeBlond?], witnesses. Samuel Sewall, Jr., justice of the peace, signs a note at...
GLC02437.10407
26 February 1747
Campbell, John (fl. 1747)
[John Campbell's declaration regarding the Damariscotta River settlement]
Attests that he took up land in an area under the charge of Colonel [David] Dunbar. Dunbar was replaced by Colonel Samuel Waldo, and some families left the area while others remained. The greatest concentration of settlers dwelled in the township...
GLC02437.10411
22 November 1721
Waldo, Jonathan (fl. 1721)
[Deed]
Signed by Jonathan and Hannah Waldo. Bartholomew Gedney and Edward Emerson signed as witnesses. Samuel [Chookley] signed as Justice of the Peace on 19 September 172[2]. A deed of gift from Jonathan Waldo to Samuel Waldo for several parcels of land...
GLC02437.10631
12 Decemer 1737
Phips, Spencer (1685-1757)
[Contract]
Signed by various parties on the last two pages. A long detailed indenture contract between Spencer Phipps, Elisha Cook, John and Sarah Phips, Dame Jane Cook (guardian of Mary Cook), Nathaniel Hubbard, Frances Brinley, Samuel Waldo, and various...
GLC02437.10633
circa 1750-1820
Unknown
to Elizabeth
Writes about a village and states that "their awkward attempts to appear what they are not, and never can be is amusing enough. For instance what do you think of Old Squire Gleason enacting the Beau and not only this but apearing [sic] the gallant...
GLC02437.08132
circa 1756-1794
Flucker, Sarah Lyons (fl. 1784-1794)
to Lucy Knox [incomplete]
Writes to her sister about her children and asks about Lucy's family.
GLC02437.08223
5 February 1762
[Legal document transferring a slave woman's ownership]
Legal document from Nausau Island, New York, conveying a "Negro woman called…Candes thirty odd years of age" to Joseph Coles for 65 pounds, from Thomas Smith and John Butler, executors of the estate of Richard Butler.
GLC09345.01
01 December 1674
Perring, Henry
[Last will and testament of Henry Perring of Brookhaven on Long Island].
Attested and signed by Richard Woodhull. Bequeaths his full estate to his wife Hanna Perring, unless she remarries. Perring, Brewster, and Woodhull were among the first patentees of Brookhaven, Long Island.
GLC03769.001
25 May 1691
Sewall, Samuel
to the Constables of Roxbury
Summons the constables to bring in William Wally on the complaint of Winnifred Chick. Also requires the constables to bring in at the same time Benjamin Daws, Jacob Parker, and John Goose to appear as witnesses. A note on verso in Sewall's hand...
GLC02678
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