1759 COLONIAL DEED (DURHAM, NH & KITTERY & WELLS, ME) THOMPSON TO STAPLES For Sale

PRE-REVOLUTIONARY COLONIAL DEED 1759PROMINENT FAMILIES OF MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE
"In the fifth Day of June Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred & fifty nine---and in the thirty Second year of his Majestys Reign." In this document, Seth Thompson in Durham in the province of New Hampshire deeded to Peter Staples of Kittery in the County of York in the Province of Massachusetts one hundred acres situated in Wells that Thompson had earlier purchased of Benjamin Curtis and Benjamin Curtis Jr. of Plymouth, Massachusetts. Thompson's wife Elizabeth released dower. Seth Thompson, born circa 1725, son of John and Mary ( ) Thompson, was at the Crown Point Expedition of 1761. The Thompson family was a large, prosperous one whose land was given for the creation of the Thompson School of Agriculture, the beginning of the University of New Hampshire in Durham. Peter Staples similarly was of a well-known family that lived in that part of Kittery, Maine that became Eliot in 1810, directly across the Piscataqua River from New Hampshire. He was probably the son born 1721 to Peter Staples and Joanna King. According to Stackpole's Old Kittery Families, he was a captain of a company at the capture of Cape Breton in 1745 and died in 1768. More research would, no doubt, give further info on Peter. The witnesses were John Stavers ? (I believe this name is Stevens) and Joshua Wentworth. It is signed on the reverse by Matthew Livermore who was a Portsmouth, NH school teacher, but he later became King's Advocate in the Admiralty Courts and Attorney General of the province of New Hampshire. He died in 1776. As you can see, the deed was recorded both in Portsmouth, province of New Hampshire as well as in York County province of Massachusetts. The document has a split 3/4 across the middle. There is toning but the script is dark and totally legible. Both seals are intact. It will be mailed first class carefully folded along the existing fold. I will be listing more early Maine and New Hampshire documents as time permits.
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