1796 DEDHAM MA Document Sale of Spring Water Rights Signed by NATHANIEL AMES +5

2 folio pgs. manuscript document, approx. 7-1/4″ x 12-1/2″, dated at
Dedham, Massachusetts, Oct. 9, 1796
, in which Timothy Richards (1752-1834) and his wife Sarah, sell to John Guild, a tanner, the privilege to draw water from the spring in his house lot, for which Guild paid one dollar.
Includes:
“Know all men by these presents that I Timothy Richards of Dedham in the County of Norfolk and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Yeoman, in consideration of one dollar paid to me in hand by John Guild of said Dedham, tanner….do hereby grant, bargain, sell and convey to the said John Guild and his heirs the right and privilege of drawing water from the spring in my house lot in said Dedham, which spring lies Southwestwardly from my dwelling house, and is near the line of Thaddeus Mason’s land, at all times freely to draw water therefrom either by logs to be laid in the ground, or by a ditch or drain cut in my said lot to the line of Thaddeus Mason’s aforesaid lot, or by any other fit and proper method as he shall find it convenient, and for that end to pass and repass through such part of my said lot at his discretion as he shall think proper and as shall be necessary  to draw said water, or to lay or repair the logs or to make or repair the ditch or cut therefor and for no other purpose….”
Signed
by Timothy Richards and his wife Sarah Richards, and by two witnesses,
Joseph Lewis
, (1738-1804), a Capt. in the Revolutionary War, and was at Lexington on April 19, 1775, and by Edward Fisk.
Also signed by Justice of the Peace,
NATHANIEL AMES
, (1741-1822), a Physician in Dedham, who graduated from Harvard in 1761, he also published Almanacs, and was an ardent anti-Federalist. His brother, Fisher Ames, was a Federalist leader in the U.S. Congress. Nathaniel Ames was elected to the Great and General Court (Mass. House of Representatives) in 1791. After Norfolk County was created, he was chosen as the Clerk of both the Court of Common Pleas and the Court of General Sessions of the Peace, but was removed from both offices by the Federalist Administration in 1797.
Also signed by
Eliphalet Pond Jr.
(1745-1813), a Colonel in the Revolutionary War, he served as Register of Deeds in Norfolk County from 1793 to 1813.
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