Deed from Rachel Wawowos and Sarah Towsey to Timothy Root
To All People to Whom These Presents Shall Come: Greeting
Know you that we, Rachel Wawowos[1] and Sarah Towsey, widows, natives late of Farmington but now of Stockbridge in the State of the Massachusetts Bay, by and with the advice and direction of Hezekiah Wadsworth and Elnathan Gridley, two of the committee appointed by the Honorable General Assembly of the State of Connecticut to advise and direct in the sale of Indian land in said Farmington, and for the consideration of seven pounds lawful money received to our full satisfaction of Timothy Root of said Farmington, do give, grant, bargain, sell, and confirm unto the said Timothy Root and to his heirs and assigns forever two pieces or parcels of land situate in said Farmington and in the late division made of the Indian grant on the west side of Pequabuck Meadow. One piece is a part of the 5th Lot in said division set to the said Sarah Towsey, and said granted part contains four acres, one rood, and twenty-nine rods; one acre, one rood, and six rods at the east end of said lot, being reserved for Abigail Shilling, and is butted east on the said land reserved for the said Abigail Shilling, west on highway, north on the lot set out to the said James Wawowos, and south on the lot set out to the said Rachel Wawowos. The other piece is the 6th Lot in said division, set out to the said Rachel, and contains five acres and a half and thirty-five rods, butted, part on land of Abigail Shilling and part on land of Ruth Adams, west on highway, north on the first piece contained in this deed, and south on land of Solomon Mossuck.
To have and to hold the above granted and bargained premises with the appurtenances thereof, unto him, the said Timothy Root, and to his heirs, and assigns forever, to his and their own proper use and behoof. And also, we, the said Rachel and Sarah, do for ourselves and our heirs, executors, and administrators, covenant with the said Timothy Root and with his heirs and assigns that, at and until the ensealing of these presents, we are 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, we, the said Rachel and Sarah, do, by these presents, bind ourselves and our heirs forever to warrant and defend the above granted and bargained premises to him, the said Timothy Root, his heirs and assigns against all claims and demands whatsoever.
In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals,
Rachel Wawowos, seal
Sarah Towsey, seal
May 27, 1778
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Witness:
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Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of Solomon Whitman, Elnathan Whitman
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Authorization:
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Allowed and approved by us, Hezekiah Wadsworth, Timothy Root, Committee
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Certification:
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Personally appeared Rachel Wawowos and Sarah Towsey, signers and sealers of the foregoing instrument and acknowledged the same to be their free act and deed before me, Solomon Whitman, Justice of the Peace, Hartford County in the jurisdiction of Farmington, May 27, 1778
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Recording:
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A true entry of a deed recorded May 29, 1778 per Solomon Whitman, Registrar
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Cataloguing:
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220
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[1] Rachel's husband, James Wawowos, died sometime before 1778. Sarah's husband, David Towsey, died in 1778.
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