Autograph Document, Signed Thad. Mason , as Clerk of the Middlesex Courts for a legal deed between Abigail and Benjamin Waters

by Massachusetts Charlestown

$250 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

1 p., partially printed and accomplished, docketed on verso. 1 vols. Folio. Old folds, minor holes affecting some text, toning, else VG. Item #228523 In 1663, Francis Norton and Nicholas Davison were granted 500 acres by Charlestown for various services rendered to the town. Norton was a haberdasher and successful merchant, who made most of his money in the fur and fish trades, in which his neighbor, Nicholas Davison was a frequent partner and

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