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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….. 1 Rafael Osona Auctions