Note: Samuel Robbins is selling 35 acres of land to Abraham Hollenbeck
To all people to whom these presents that come greeting know ye I Samuel Robbins of Canaan in Litchfield County and colony of Connecticut in New England for consideration of the sum of three hundred pounds money according to old tener bills to me in hand paid by Abraham Hollenbeck of the same town and county and colony afore said. The receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge myself fully satisfied and paid therefore do give grant bargain sell convey and confirm unto him the said Abraham Hollenbeck and his heirs and assigns for ever one certain tract or lot of land lying in the township of Canaan. Containing thirty five acres of land being part of a second division lot called and known by the name of a Swamp lot in number [?] twenty third share beginning at the six rod highway at the front of said lot thence to extend eastward into said lot to make the 35 acres to have and to hold the above granted and bargained premises with the priviledges and appurtenances thereof unto him the said Abraham Hollenbeck and his heirs and assigns forever to his and their own proper use and behoof and also [?] the said Samuel Robbins do for myself my heirs executors and administrators covenant with the said Abraham Hollenbeck and his heirs and assigns at and until the ensealing of these presents I am well seized of the [?] as a good and indefeasable estate [?] simple and have good right to bargain and sell the same in manner and form as is above written and [?] the same is free of all incumberances whatsoever and furthermore the said Samuel Robbins do by these presents bind and oblige myself my heirs and assigns forever to warrant and define the above said premises against all lawful claims and demands what ever in witness whereof I have set to my hand and seal this 20th day of March and in the twenty fifth year of the reign of our sovereign Lord George of Great Britain King AD 1752
Signed and delivered in presence of us Benjamin Kellogg and Jacob Bunce
Canaan in Litchfield County there personally appeared Samuel Robbins signer and sealer to the within written instrument and freely acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed. David Whitney Justice of the Peace. April 2, 1752. Rec and recorded by me David Wright - Clerk.
Canaan Connecticut Deed; Volume 2, page 58