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Deed - Francis Hall & Joseph Blackman - 1685


The land of Joseph Blackman recorded to him his heirs & assignes for ever this 16th Aprill 1685 as followeth

Joseph Blackman by gift his father Francis Hall hath two acres of meadow lyeing att ye wood end by ye old field ditch bee itt more or less bounded on ye East & North with the highways West with meadow belonging to Adom Blackman South with Isaac Judson his meadow.

Item - by gift as aboves'd hath five acres of upland lyeing in ye new pasture bee itt more or less bounded on ye West with ye highway North Shermans land & West with Shermans land South with lands formerly belonging to Caleb Nicholls - these two parcells above recorded is confirmed to ye said Joseph by ye aboves'd Hall by his subscribing hereto this 16th day of Aprill 1685
Francis Hall
Signed in ye presence of 
Joseph Curtiss
Joseph Blackman
Acknowledged by ye grantee to be his own act & deed before mee
William Curtis Commis'r


[Land Register - Stratford, Connecticut - V.2 pg.124]

Note - Joseph Blackman was Francis's son-in-law, married to his daughter Hannah