LEWIS TO WILLSON, COVENTRY CT DEEDS, BK. 3, PG 409-10: Tolland County, Connecticut Submitter: Jan Wilson Ramos Date Submitted: 1998 *********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ct/ctfiles.htm *********************************************** To All people to whome these Presents Shall Come Greetings Know ye that I Jabez Lewis of C___________ in ye County of Hartford and colony of Conecticut in New England for the Consideration of one Hundred and Twenty two pounds ___teen Shillings Corrant Money old Taner Received to my full Satisfaction of John Willson of Coventry in ye county of Windham & Colony aforesaid do Give Grant Bargain Sell and Confirm unto the sd John Willson and to his Heirs and assigns forever one certain tract or percle of Land Lying in Coventry in Ye County of Windham & Colony aforesd Containing thirty four acres and Sixty Rods which was let out to me by the dinition according to ye Judgment of Cort Directing them and is part of ______ Hundred acre Dinition ye East end of so Dintion and is Bounded as I do sweth South upon a highway & west upon Jedediah Carpenters Land that he bought of John Lewes North upon William Pitkins Land east upon John Willsons Land aforesd and Lyes in bredth east & west fifty five Rods and in Length North & South one Hundred Rods To Have and to Hold ye above Granted and Bargained Premises unto him ye sd John Wilson and to his Heirs and assigns for ever to his and there own proper and Behoof and also I the sd Jabez Lewis do for my Self my Hiers and assigns Covenant with ye sd John Willson his Heirs and assigns that at and untill ye ensealing of these presents I am well Seized of ye premises as a good Right to Bargain and Sell the Same in manner and form as is above Written and that ye Same is free of all Incumbrances whatso ever and furthermore I ye sd Jabez Lewis do by these presents bind my Self my Heirs for ever to Warrant and Defend the above Granted and Bargained Premises to him the said John Wilson and to his Heirs & assigns for ever against all Claims and Demands whatso ever In witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal this 2nd day of July AD 1745 Signed Sealled and Delivered In presents of Thomas Porter Jabez Lewis John Badcock Coventry July ye 2 AD 1745 there personly apeared Jabez Lewis and acknowledged ye above written Instrument to be his free volentary act and Deed before me Peter Buell Justice of ye Peice The above written a true copy out of ye original entered July ye 2nd Day AD 1745 Attest Thomas Porter Town Clerk (transcribed by Janette L. (Wilson) Ramos preserving the original punctuation, spelling, & syntax RamosGang@Worldnet.att.net)