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[PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS]. Manuscript document signed by William Bradford (1624-1704), Nathaniel Clarke, Nathaniel Southworth and Thomas Harvard, an indenture transferring land in the township of Plymouth, [Plymouth], 30 March 1699. 1 page, oblong folio (12 x 15½ inches), remnants of wax seal, mounting marks on corners, otherwise in fine condition, framed. Unexamined out of frame. A TOWN PLOT IN COLONIAL PLYMOUTH. A rare 17th-century deed of sale for land within the confines of the town of Plymouth: "Nathaniall Southworth of plimouth in the province of Massachussets" agrees to sell "for and in consideration of ten pounds currant silver money and lands," a tract of "thirty acres of upland" that are "bounded...on the east with the bay of salt water," and incorporating a house. Plymouth, established in 1620 as the first permanent English settlement in New England, was settled by the Separatists or Pilgrims who sought religious freedom.

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[PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS]. Manuscript document signed by William Bradford (1624-1704), Nathaniel Clarke, Nathaniel Southworth and Thomas Harvard, an indenture transferring land in the township of Plymouth, [Plymouth], 30 March 1699. 1 page, oblong folio (12 x 15½ inches), remnants of wax seal, mounting marks on corners, otherwise in fine condition, framed. Unexamined out of frame. A TOWN PLOT IN COLONIAL PLYMOUTH. A rare 17th-century deed of sale for land within the confines of the town of Plymouth: "Nathaniall Southworth of plimouth in the province of Massachussets" agrees to sell "for and in consideration of ten pounds currant silver money and lands," a tract of "thirty acres of upland" that are "bounded...on the east with the bay of salt water," and incorporating a house. Plymouth, established in 1620 as the first permanent English settlement in New England, was settled by the Separatists or Pilgrims who sought religious freedom.

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