Note 8 — Chapter VI

Page 31—Regarding Henry Richmond and his son Eliab’s purchase, the deed shows how the boundaries were to be determined. His son was to have some 580 feet on the shore of the pond, starting on the southwest corner of the property and then northerly and northeasterly to such a point of the compass as to include the exact quantity of thirty acres, thence easterly to the boundary with Jonathan Holmes and by his land to the first corner.

Eliab and Hannah Richmond held these thirty acres from January 1773 for eleven years until April 1784, and probably lived on and farmed these acres. These years coincide closely with those of the American Revolution. When he sold them to Nathaniel Clark, Book 63, Page 69, for 11 pounds 8 shillings, he took a loss of some two pounds during the eleven years. Nathaniel Clark had bought Henry Richmond’s property a year earlier.