Deed of gift, Edmond Freeman the eldest of Sandwich to his grandson Matthias Ellis
Record
- Date
- 24 Feb 1678/9; acknowledged 3 Mar 1678/9
- Held by
- Plymouth County Registry of Deeds (Plymouth Colony Deeds)
- Reference
- Old Colony Deeds vol. 5 pp. 169-170; FamilySearch 3:1:3QHV-B35Z-6SSS (genealogy transcript)
- Seen as
- originalimagetranscriptabstractindex
What it says
Printed in Freeman Genealogy pp. 16-18. “For and in consideration of the natural love and affection which I bear to the said Matthias Ellis, being my kinsman in blood, that is to say my grandson; and for diverse other good causes and considerations, as living with me until he the above said Matthias came unto man’s estate, being a support unto me in my old age and weakness.”
Gives his dwelling house and orchard, a quarter of the adjoining land, meadow bounded by “a Ditch called the Divell’s Ditch,” and a quarter of the Neck land “under Sagamore Hill near and unto which Hill there is a great Rock like the ridge of a house.” Witnesses Richard Bourne, Samuel Eady, Joseph Dotey. Acknowledged before Thomas Hinckley.