Elizabeth Washburn to Indian Sam James (1694]
This will concerns Elizabeth Packard wife of the
immigrant, Samuel, who married Mayflower Descendant John Washburne late in life
[Plym. Co. Deeds, 10: 1: 333] "Elizabeth Washburn Widow of the Town of
Bridgewater" for £5 current money "paid unto me by an Indian known by the name
of Sam James of sd Bridgewater" sold to him "All that my twenty acre Lot of Land
being Situate within the Confines of sd Bridgewater and at a Place called & known by
the name of Setucket Pond and being about Fourty Poles in breadth and about eighty Poles
in Length & on the Southern Side of said Pond It being the Sixth Lot from Pimkin
Bridge of that Division of twenty acre Lots & lying between the Land of mr James Keith
and the Land of Thomas Hayward Senr .... and I sd Elizabeth Washburn .... Covenant ., . .
yt I at the time of making over & Passing away the sd Land .... Stood truly &
lawfully Seized & Possessed with the Same .... by vertue of my first
Husband viz: Samuel Packard his Will"
The deed was dated 27 October, 1694, and signed by a mark, and was acknowledged the same
day before Thomas Hayward, Justice of the Peace. It was witnessed by Samuel Packard,
Thomas Washburn and Edward Fobes, and was recorded 22 October, 1713.
