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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2693 Deed, Nathan Brooks, administrator, to Town of Lexington, a parcel of land on the county road, November 18, 1828KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, THAT I Nathan Brooks of Concord in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Esquire, administrator of the estate of Eleanor Swan late of Lexington in said County, widow, deceased intestate, by an order of the Court of Probate begun and holden at Chelmsford in and for said County of Middlesex on the Seventh day of October last was licensed and duly empowered to sell and pass deeds, to convey so much of the real estate of the said Deceased for the payment of debts and incidental charges as should raise the sum of eleven hundred and sixty one Dollars and ninety three cents And whereas I, the said Administrator having given thirty days public notice of the intended sale, by printing a notification of the intended time and place of sale, three weeks successivley in the newspaper called the Yeomans Gazette, printed at Concord by Herman Atwill ; having first given bonds, and taken the oath, by law in such cases required, did on the twelfth day of November instant pursuant to the license and notice aforesaid, sell at public vendue — — the following tract of land, being a part of the real estate of said Deceased to the inhabitants of the Town of Lexington for the sum of ninety Dollars. They being the highest bidder therefor, as follows, to wit : a small piece of land situated in said Lexington, containing about one quarter of an acre, bounded, beginning on the County road by the Penny Garden, thence running by said road about four rods and three quarters, to a stake by an apple tree, there turning and running west southerly to the corner of the wall by the mountain pasture, there turning and running on said wall to the Penny Garden, thence by said Penny Garden as the wall stands to the bound first mentioned Therefore know ye, that I, the said Nathan Brooks, Administrator as aforesaid by virtue of the power and authority in me vested as aforesaid, and in consideration of the aforesaid, sum of ninety Dollars to me paid by the said Inhabitants of Lexington the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, bargain, sell and convey unto him the said Inhabitants of Lexington, the tract of land herein above mentioned and described, or howsoever the same is reputed to be bounded or described. To HAVE, and to HOLD the aforegranted premises, with all the privileges and appurtenances, to the same belonging, to the said Inhabitants of Lexington, forever, to their use and behoof forever. And I, the said Brooks administrator as aforesaid, do hereby covenant with the said Inhabitants of Lexington, that I was lawfully authorized and empowered to make sale of the same, as aforesaid ; that I gave thirty days public notice of the said intended sale, as aforesaid ; that I gave bonds, and took the oath by law required, previous to said sale, that it was necessary the same should be sold for the purposes aforesaid ; that the premises were struck off to the said Inhabitants of Lexington for the sum aforesaid, at a public vendue, as aforesaid ; and that they the said Inhabitants of Lexington offered most for the same. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I, the said Nathan Brooks administrator as aforesaid, have hereunto set my hand and seal this eighteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight. Nathan Brooks admin Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of us, Mary Prichard John Keyes Middlesex ss. Nov. 29 1828 Then the above named Nathan Brooks personally acknowledged the above instrument, by him subscribed, to be his voluntary act and deed—before me, John Nayes[?] Justice of Peace [writing on left side] Midlelsex ss. January 9th 1829. Received & Recorded in the Registry of Deeds for said County. Book 287 Page 133 Attest Wm. F. Stone Regs Deed Nathan Brooks admr to Inhabitants of Lexington 2693