Unrecorded New Hampshire Broadside

Dakin, Timothy

Lands For Sale! The subscriber, as Agent and Attorney for all the Heirs at Law of Aaron Brown, Esquire, late of Groton Mass, Mass. deceased, will offer for sale at Public Vendue, at Stickney's Tavern in Concord, N.H. on Wednesday, the first day of November next at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, all the lands of which the said deceased died [sic], seized and possessed in the towns of Groton and Hebron, N.H. in the county of Grafton, consisting of the following Lots and Parcels...

[Concord?]: September 16, 1815. Broadside, approx. 15" x 9", signed in type by Timothy Dakin; paper toned, folded, creased, and with several small holes (one affecting 2 letters - sense remains clear), some chipping at extremities including a 4" x 1" loss at the top corner (no loss of any text). Under the lengthy running head is a list of 8 auction lots for sale, mostly undeveloped land, but one with "a small dwelling house [and] a fine young orchard" on the main road in Groton. One lot is adjacent to the Groton meeting-house and most of the lots within 5 miles of it. The last lot consists of 11 parcels totaling 768 acres. Groton and Hebron are located in Grafton County, N.H. about 45 miles NNW of Concord. In addition to Dakin, who lived in Mason, N.H., near the Massachusetts border, interested parties may contact Eleazar Ball in Groton, N.H. Dakin was a prosperous mill owner in Greenville, N.H. The fine brick-end Federal house that he built there in 1814 still stands. Aaron Brown (1752-1811) was a Groton, Massachusetts merchant who served as the town's representative to the Massachusetts General Court, 1791-1793. Not in OCLC; not in American Imprints. Item #54949

Price: $400.00