Feb 25, 2021 - Sale 2559

Sale 2559 - Lot 13

Price Realized: $ 1,375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000
GOVERNOR OF PLYMOUTH COLONY WINSLOW, JOSIAH. Document Signed, "Jos: Winslow," bearing witness to Hannah [Holloway] Read's receipt of 8 pounds for a tract of land in Marshfield [MA] deeded by her to William Fford, Sr. Additionally signed by witness Nathaniel Thomas, and with mark of Hannah Read. 3/4 page, 6x3 3/4 inches; complete separation at horizontal fold repaired verso with cello tape, some dampstaining at right edge affecting few words of text, minor staining and chipping at edges with minor loss to corners. [Marshfield], 6 July 1673

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"I Hannah Read of the towne of Norridge [Norwich] in the Colony of Conecticote do hereby testify that I have receaved of William Fford Seniour of Marshfield the full . . . Summe of eight pounds in mony: being the eight pounds due to mee upon the selling . . . by mee to the aforesaid William all my Right and Interest in lands and meadow that was formerly mine in Marshfield as by a deed under my hand doth aprove bearing date of 6 (7) 1673 . . . ."