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Papers of the Winthrop Family, Volume 4

Deed of John Winthrop to John Newgate1
JW Newgate, John

1639-12-18

Knowe All men by these presents that I John Winthrop Esqr. Governour of the Jurisdiction of the Mattachusetts Bay in New England for fower score pounds of lawfull money of England to me in hand payd by John Newgate of Boston in New England Feltmaker Doe hereby graunt bargain and sell unto the said John Newgate All that my Lott of upland lying neare Rumney marsh in New England conteyning One hundred and Fifty acres be it more 162or lesse,2 abutting upon the highway there leading to Divers mens lotts on the East, and upon the lands perteyning to Charlestowne towards the west, and the Lands now of Nicholas Parker sometimes Mr. Vanes towards the south, and partly upon the lands of James Pen and partly upon the lands of the said John Newgate on the north parte, with the appurtenances. To have and to hold the said Lott with all the appurtenances unto the said John Newgate his heires and Assignes for ever. In witnesse whereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seale the Eightteenth Day of the tenth moneth in the yeare of our Lord One thousand six hundred thirty and nyne and in the Fifteenth yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles now King of England etca.

Jo: Winthop Signed sealed and Delivered in the presence of: Stephen Winthrop et mei Tho: Lechford scriptoris hujus
1.

Original not located; facsimile in Winthrop Deeds, 30; 2 Proceedings , VII. 139. For Thomas Lechford's record of this transaction, see Lechford's Notebook, 232.

2.

Cf. Report of the Record Commissioners of the City of Boston, 11 (Boston, 1881), 27.