Deed - Proprietors Book; page 169 (LDS microfilm). Canaan, Connecticut

Note: Abraham Hollenbeck gets 1.75 acres as compensation for land lost to road construction.

Whereas there formerly was allowed to Abraham Hollenbeck 500(?) rod of [?] for the consideration of what the Five Rod Road took off of the 15 acres [?] laid to him for the consideration of an Indian deed but not laid to him [?] 185 rods thats now taken off of his part of the division that was laid to him by the mistake in the committee first laying off [??] We do allow to him the said Abraham Hollenbeck in the undivided land an acre and three quarters and 5 rods lying bounded east on the said 5 Rod Road and west on the country grant thats [?] and Capt Peter Hogoboom bounded as followeth. Beginning at a white oak stump standing near his barrack thence northerly baring west near 43 rods to a stake standing in the east line of said grant of land at the corner between said Hollenbeck and said Hogoboom thence east or near thereabouts 12 rods to a black oak tree then south and baring to the west to the first bounds by the highway laid out by the instruments April the 4th 1744 by us Andrew Stevens Surveyor.

Recd for record April 4, 1744
And recorded for Andrew Stevens

David Whitney
Ephraim Fellows
Committee

Canaan Connecticut Deed; Volume Proprietors Book, page 169 (LDS microfilm)