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Number 05: Deed from March 8, 1748

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1748 March 8: Deed to land in what is now Lanesborough, Mass. Signed by Samuel Stone, Junior, of Framingham, Husbandman, conveying land Lot No. 94 in a new township called Osatonick in Richfield, to Ephraim Williams, Esq., of Stockbridge. Witnesssed by Josiah Drury, Elisha Jones. Acknowledged before Josiah Brewer. Recorded by Edward Pynchon. The present town of Lanesborough, including Cheshire was first called Richfield, afterwards called New Framingham. First actual settlers came in 1754, six years after Ephraim Williams, Sr., took title to Lot No. 94.

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Title Number 05: Deed from March 8, 1748
Source Williams, Ephraim, Sr.
Type of Resource text
Genre legal article
Date Issued 1748-03-08
Language eng
Description 1748 March 8: Deed to land in what is now Lanesborough, Mass. Signed by Samuel Stone, Junior, of Framingham, Husbandman, conveying land Lot No. 94 in a new township called Osatonick in Richfield, to Ephraim Williams, Esq., of Stockbridge. Witnesssed by Josiah Drury, Elisha Jones. Acknowledged before Josiah Brewer. Recorded by Edward Pynchon. The present town of Lanesborough, including Cheshire was first called Richfield, afterwards called New Framingham. First actual settlers came in 1754, six years after Ephraim Williams, Sr., took title to Lot No. 94.
Subject Deeds
Subject Ephraim Williams 1715-1755
Geographic Lanesborough MA
collection Dwight_050_005
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