1802 Deed - Joseph Perkins to Benjamin Watkins
Introduction
Essex County, MassachusettsDeed Book 171, p34
19 Jul 1802
Transcript
To all people to whom these presents shall come - Whereas I Joseph Perkins of Salem in the County of Essex & commonwealth of Massachusetts Esquire, administrator of the estate of John Reeves late of Salem in the county of Essex Wheelwright, deceased, by an order of the supreme judicial court, which was begun and holden at Salem in said county on the second Tuesday of November last past, was licenced to make sale of all the real estate of the said John Reeves for the payment of his debts, and for incidental charges, therefore know ye that I the said Joseph Perkins, administrator as aforesaid, as well by virtue of the power and authority to me given as aforesaid, as in consideration of the sum of six hundred & sixty one dollars ? paid me by Benjamin Watkins of said Salem Esquire, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, have granted bargained and sold, and do hereby in said capacity grant bargain sell convey and confirm unto him the said Benjamin Watkins his heirs and assigns forever - a piece of land situated in said Salem, with part of a dwelling house & out house, thereon, bounded northerly on Essex street fifty feet & six inches, westerly o land formerly Blaney's now Wellman's nine poles & fourteen links of the chain, southerly on land formerly Richard Palmer's sixty one feet four inches & a half inch, & easterly on the land & the other part of said house, which were called No 2. in the division of Cockerel Reeves's estate, or however otherwise the same may be bounded & described, together with the appurtenances to the premises belonging, the premises being all the real estate in Salem of which the said John Reeves died seized, & the same which he purchased of his uncles Jacob & Samuel Reeves, & by them inherited from their father Cockerel Reeves - To have and to hold the same with all the privileges and appurtenances thereof to him the said Benjamin Watkins his heirs and assigns forever. And I do hereby in the capacity aforesaid covenant with the said Benjamin Watkins his heirs and assigns, that the said John Reeves died seized of the premises, that I was duly licensed by the said court to make sale thereof, and that it was necessary the same should be sold for the purposes aforesaid that previous to the intended sale I took the oath by law prescribed, and gave public notice thereof according to the directions of the law in such cases made and provided and that the said Benjamin Watkins offered most for the said premises, and the same were thereupon struck off to him, for the sum aforesaid at a public vendue held at the house of said John Reeves, deceased, on the twenty second day of December last, and I do further in the capacity aforesaid covenant to and with the said Benjamin Watkins his heirs and assigns that the premises are free of all incumbrances, and that I will warrant secure and defend the same to him the said Benjamin Watkins his heirs and assigns forever, against the lawful claim and demands of all persons. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the nineteenth day of July Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and twoJoseph Perkins a seal
Signed Sealed and delivered in the presence of us }
Daniel Bray Tho Bancroft }
Essex July 19 1802 Then Joseph Perkins Esqr within named personally appeared and acknowledged this deed by him signed to be his voluntary act Before Tho Bancroft J Peace
Essex Recd July 20 1802 & recorded & examined by John Pickering Regr