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Nathaniel Oak to Jacob Cutter, 24 December 1822: sale of one share in the Chelsea Turnpike Corporation for $60, with the same-day acknowledgment before Elisha Hyde, Justice of the Peace.
Image · dated 24 Dec 1822 · source: Vermont Historical Society (Vermont Historical Society, Leahy Library, Uncatalogued Manuscripts, Misc File 1001; reproduction supplied to the owner).
Transcription
Word-for-word transcription (spellings kept; uncertain letters in brackets).
Know all men by these presents that I Nathˡ of Chelsea Orange County State of Vermont for the Consideration of Sixty dollars paid to my full Satisfaction by Jacob Cutter Portsmouth N.H. have and hereby do sell & Convey to the said Jacob his heirs and Assigns forever all the right title & Interest which I have in the Chelsea Turnpike Corporation one Share [overwritten; possibly “Numbered Nine”] and numbered Nineteen. To have and to hold said Share to him the said Cutter use and benefit subject all the Reservations and Retentions named in the Original grant And I the said Nathˡ Oak for myself my heirs Executors & Administrators hereby engage to the sᵈ Cutter his heirs and Assigns that I will warrant said Share against all Claims and will have and Claim no further right to sᵈ Share. In Witness I have set my hand & Seal this 24th day of Dec 1822.
In presence of
[Nathan H[o/y?]le]
Elisha Hyde
Nathˡ Oak
State of Vermont }
Orange County ss. } Personally Appeared at Chelsea December 24. 1822 Nathˡ Oak and Acknowledged the same to be his Voluntary Act and deed Before me
Elisha Hyde Just. of Peace
[The first witness’s surname and the words after “one Share” are uncertain. The opening reads “I Nathˡ of Chelsea”; no separately legible “Oak” is supplied there. Review, September 29, 2026: the recording clerk’s signature is read as D. Azro A. Buck. The share-number overwrite, first witness’s surname and final recording-page digit remain uncertain. The prior transcript is retained in Transcript-history.]
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Keep in mind: The instrument: Nathl Oak of Chelsea conveys to Jacob Cutter of Portsmouth, N.H., for sixty dollars, his right, title and interest in a Chelsea Turnpike Corporation share, signed 24 Dec 1822, with the acknowledgment of the same date. Identity: Likely, not Confirmed; the deed names 'Nathl' of Chelsea, Orange County, Vermont, and the signature reads Nathl Oak; the pensioner Nathaniel Oak (1751-1840), who lived in Chelsea until 1839, is the leading candidate, but the deed gives no age or family tie. The share number is partly overwritten (provisionally 'numbered Nineteen', possibly also 'Nine'); the first witness's surname is uncertain.