Deed from Lemuel Carrington to Samuel Adams, Jr.
To All People to Whom These Presents Shall Come: Greeting
Know you that I, Lemuel Carrington, of Farmington and County of Hartford and State of Connecticut, for and in consideration of the sum of eleven pounds lawful money by me received to my full satisfaction of Samuel Adams, Jr. of Farmington and Hartford County, do give, grant, have bargained, and have sold and, by these presents, do bargain, sell, and confirm unto the said Samuel Adams, Jr. one piece or parcel of land lying west of the reserved lands that I bought of Daniel Rowe[1] and contains four acres of land butted and bounded as followeth, namely, west on Stephen Hotchkiss land, north on Caleb Matthews, east on my own land, and south on my own land, and is to be fifteen rods wide on the north end and running southerly forty-nine rods, then west to Stephen Hotchkiss land, and is to be wide enough as the south end to make four acres, together with a drift road through Daniel Atkins land from the highway at the east end of said Atkins land.
To have and to hold the said bargained premised with the appurtenances to the proper use and behoof of him, the said Samuel Adams, Jr., and his heirs and assigns forever, to his and their own proper use and behoof and I, the said Lemuel Carrington, do for myself and my heirs covenant with the said Samuel Adams, Jr., his heirs and assigns that, at and until the signing and sealing hereof, I am well seized of the premises as a good and 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 from all encumbrances whatsoever. And, furthermore, I, the said Lemuel Carrington, do bind myself and heirs forever to warrant and defend the above granted and bargained unto him, the said Samuel Adams, Jr., and to his heirs and assigns against all claims and demands whatsoever.
In witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal,
Lemuel Carrington, seal
March 5, 1781
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Witness:
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Signed, sealed, and delivered in presence of Joel Tuttle, Phineas Royce
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Certification:
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Litchfield County for the jurisdiction of Watertown, the day and date above. Then personally appeared Mr. Lemuel Carrington, signer and sealer of the foregoing instrument and acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed before me, Phineas Royce, Justice of the Peace
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Recording:
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A true entry of a deed recorded April 9, 1781, per Solomon Whitman, Registrar
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Cataloguing:
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77
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