Deed from Elijah Wampey to Abigail Shoran
To All People to Whom These Presents Shall Come: Greeting
Know you that I, Elijah Wampey, of Farmington in said County of Hartford and Colony of Connecticut in New England for the consideration of nineteen pounds, five shillings lawful money received to my full satisfaction of Abigail Shoran an Indian girl belonging to said Farmington do give, grant, bargain, sell, and confirm unto the said Abigail Shoran and to her heirs and assigns forever one piece or parcel of land lying in said Farmington and on the west side of Pequabuck meadow and at a place called and known by the name of Fort Hill and contains eleven acres of land and is butted and bounded as followeth: (namely) south of land belonging to Hezekiah Wadsworth, west on the highway running by the common fence, east partly on Thomas Wadsworth's land and partly on land belonging to Thomas Lewis and north on my own land.
To have and to hold the above granted and bargained premises with the appurtenances thereof, unto her, the said Abigail Shoran, and to her heirs and assigns forever, to her and their own proper use and behoof. And also, I, the said Elijah Wampey, do for myself and my heirs, executors, and administrators, covenant with the said Abigail Shoran and with her heirs and assigns that at and until the ensealing of these presents, I am well seized of the premises as a good indefeasible estate in fee-simple and have good right to bargain and sell the same in manner and form as is above written, and that the same is free of all encumbrances whatsoever. And furthermore, I, the said Elijah Wampey, do by these presents, bind myself and my heirs forever to warrant and defend the above granted and bargained premises, to her[1] the said Abigail Shoran and to her heirs and assigns, against all claims and demands whatsoever.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal,
Elijah Wampey, Seal
July 5, 1768, in the reign of our Sovereign Lord, George III of Great Britain, in the Year of Our Lord 1768
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Witness:
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Signed, sealed, and delivered, in presence of Asahel Wadsworth, Solomon Whitman
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Certification:
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Personally appeared Elijah Wampey, signer and sealer of the foregoing instrument, and acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed before me, Solomon Whitman, Justice of the Peace. Hartford County, in the jurisdiction of Farmington, July, 1768.
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This may certify that the bargain and sale above written was by the allowance and under the direction of us, the subscribers, Solomon Whitman, William Wadsworth.
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Recording:
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A true entry of deed recorded May 16, 1781 per Solomon Whitman, Registrar
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Cataloguing:
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Volume 23, page 410
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[1] The original deed read her instead of him.
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