The land of Ebenezer Blackman recorded 16 April 1685

Ebenezer Blackman by gift his father Francis Hall hath three acres of meadow lyeing in ye salt pond in ye gt neck bee itt more or less it being ye equall half of six acres that ye s'd Hall had there bounded North with Capt. Wm Curtiss South with ye remaining pte of ye s'd six acres butting East with ye beach West with Isaac Nicholls & .... Tomlinson their meadow 
Item - by gift as aboves'd hath one acre & quarter of land & twenty four rods be itt more or less lyeing att ye North end of ye laine/towne?? bee itt more or less bounded North with Jonathan Nicholls South with Ephraim Stiles West with ye highway with another range of lots these two parcells next above recorded is confirmed to ye s'd Blakeman his heirs & assignes by ye aboves'd Hall by his subscribing hereto this 16th day of Aprill 1685 by ye aboves'd Hall his subscribing being hereto
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.74]