Dennis, Barnstable County(Cape Cod), Mass  Deeds

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Contributed by L.Ray Sears, III (LRSears@CapeCod.net)


This next deed is very interesting because I actually have a survey of the beachfront location. 
{What I wouldn't give to still own the place?}  I will scan in both the deed and the plat.  
If you can view the deed image, at the bottom you will see a 50 cent United States Inter. Revenue 
documentary stamp Series of 1898 depicting a steamship. You will need the free Adobe Acrobat PDF 
viewer (www.adobe.com) to see it.

www.searsr.com/deeds/d1899a.pdf
www.searsr.com/deeds/d1899b.pdf
www.searsr.com/deeds/d1899c.pdf
www.searsr.com/deeds/d1899d.pdf

[Again the deed is handwritten on a boilerplate Quit-Claim deed form with Carters Extra Superfine 
watermark and glued together in three parts because the blank space on the boilerplate was not 
large enough.  The boilerplate was "Sold by T.H. BALL,Law Stationary, 49 Court Street, Boston."]

                        QUIT-CLAIM
             Know all men by these presents
That I, William G Sears of Dennis
the County of Barnstable
IN CONSIDERATION OF Three hundred and fifty dollars,paid by
Elkanah H[owes]. Sears [my great-grandfather] of Dennis in said county
the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby..... remise, release,and forever
QUIT-CLAIM, unto the said Elkanah H. Sears his heirs
xecutors administrators and assigns all right
title, estate interest, property and claim, either
at law or in equity, in and to a cerain piece
of land situate in East Dennis about midway
between the mouths of Sesuit and Quivet creeks
said piece containing four (4)acres, more
or less and consisting of one and on-hlaf(1 1/2) acres
of cranberry bog, the remainder being pasture land
the whole of said piecebeing bounded as follows,-
on the South by Coles Pond  and by land of Nathan
Sears, such southern boundary not being a
continuous line, but broken at two points
which would approximately set off the
middle third of the southern boundary, from
and between which said points land of the said Nathan Sears
projects northward and, extending from the Eastern
most of said points northward by a stone wall to a
drinking place, thence westward three or four (3 or 4) rods
by a stonewall, and thence southward by a stone wall
to the westernmost of the two said points, partly
separates the above mentioned cranberry bog and
pasture land -for the rest,on the West by land of
the heirs of Elkanah Sears, on the North by the
fence next the beach as it now stands, on the
Eastby the fences next the beachas they now
stand and by cranberry yard of the estate
of Edwin D. Crowell,- the releasor hereby
now and always reserving and excepting
the following rights,- profits and interests
a right of way to Flax Pond cranberry yard ^for all present uses
and the right to land and screen cranber
ries, a right to take sand and earthy
materials therefrom and cart over the-
same, a right of way tothe shore with
landing.  The piece of land above 
described and by these presents released
was a part of the estate of William Sears[g-g-grandfather]
late of Dennis.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, the above release premises, with the privileges and appurtenances
to the same belonging,to the said Elkanah H Sears his
Heirs and Assigns, to their use and behoof forever.
AND I the said William G. Sears for myself and for my Heirs,
Executors and Administrators, do covenant with the said Elkanah H.Sears
his Heirs and Assigns, that the premises are free from all incumbrances made or suffered by
me except those above mentioned
and that I will and my Heirs, Executors and Administrators, shall WARRANT AND
DEFEND the same to the said Elkanah H. Sears his Heirs and Assigns forever,
against the lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming by, through or under me
but against none other.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the said William G. Sears and Mary H. Sears his wife,who [forgive?] in this deed
in token of her release of all right and title of or to both dower and homestead in the granted
premises, have hereunto set their hands and seals this first day of [March]
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-nine       [50 cents IRS DOC Stamp]

  Signed, sealed and delivered, in presence of                 
       (s)Nathan Sears         }       (s) William G. Sears       [Seal]
       (s)Asa F. Ames          }       (s) Mary H. Sears          [Seal]


  Barnstable SS. March 1 1899                   |   Barnstable ss  
  Then personally appeared the above-named      |      April 6, 1903 [189 strike out]
     William G Sears                            |   Received and entered with Barnstable
  and acknowledged the above instrument to be   |   County Registry
  his free act and deed; before me,             |
  (s)Nathan Sears,Justice of the Peace             |   Deeds, Lib. 260...Fol.s 413,414 & 415
                                                |   Attest (s) Andrew F Sherman Register