Rafael Osona Auctions Annual Catalog 2020 | Page 6
Estate of Linda Loring - 4 Rays Court, Nantucket and 6 Louisburg Square, Boston
to Benefit the Linda Loring Nature Foundation
Lot 1 through 69 Lot 185 through 217 Lot 268 through 305 Lot 357 through 363
Estate of Linda Loring Part II august 22, 2020
1. NANTUCKET, SEPTEMBER 9 TH 1835 DEED OF PURCHASE OF LAND FROM THE REFORMED METHODIST
CHURCH FOR ONE DOLLAR, Josiah Hussey, Justice of the Peace, Owen Swain and Theophilus Crocker, Trustees.
15 ¼ in. x 13 ¼ in. 1,500/2,500
“Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Nantucket September 9 th A.D. 1835, on the 29 th of the same September within named Owen Swain
and Theophilus Crocker, both Trustees of the Reform Methodist Church in Nantucket personally came before me, and acknowledged
the within instrument, by them signed and sealed in my presence & view, to be their free act & deed, and the free act & deed of the
Members of the Church within named. Josiah Hussey, Justice of the Peace and of the Quorum.” The reverse: “Know all men by these
Presents, Whereas at a Meeting of the Male and Female Members of the Reform Methodist Church in Nantucket held at their Meeting
house in said Nantucket on the seventh day of September Instant – said Meeting having been duly notified it was Voted that one or
more of the Trustees of said Church be impowered to execute a good sufficient Warrentee Deed to Moses H. Swift of said Nantucket,
Pastor of said Church a certain Lot of Land in said Nantucket, belonging to the Members of said Church, herein after described in
consideration, and as a full renumeration for the labors & services by him rendered to said Church. Now, therefore, Know Ye, that
we Owen Swain & Theophilus Crocker of Nantucket aforesaid, Trustees of said Church by virtue of the power and authority, in us
vested as aforesaid, and in consideration of One Dollar, and the labors & Services done, rendered & performed by the said Moses
H. Swift for the benefit of said Church, whereas said sum of One Dollar we have duly received, and which said labors & Services are
hereby acknowledged – do hereby, in our said Capacity, give grant, sell and convey unto the said Moses H. Swift, and to his heirs and
Assigns forever, a certain Lot of Land in said Nantucket, belonging to said Church on the East End of the Meeting house lot, bounded
as follows, on the East by land of George Bowers – on the south by the Highway, on the West by Land of Said Church now Mortgaged
to Daniel Coffin Esq and on the North by land of William C. Hussey – measuring on the East and West lines forty two and ½ feet – and
on the North & South Lines thirty two & ½ feet…..
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