| Grantor: | William Whitaker (of New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts, administrator on the estate of Asa Vorce, late of New Salem, deceased intestate) |
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| Grantee: | Jonas Vorce (labourer, of New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts) |
| Date: | 27 June 1820 |
| Price: | $620 |
| Description: | William Whitaker ... by an order of the Court of Probate, held at Wendell for the County of Franklin on 17 May 1820, was licensed and duly empowered to sell and pass deeds to convey so much of the real estate of the deceased for the payment of his debts with incidental charges as will produce the sum of $620, and whereas William Whitaker having given 30 days public notice of the time and place of the intended sale by posting notifications in New Salem and in the two adjoining towns of Wendell and Orange, also in Greenfield, the shire town of said county, and having given bond and taken the oath by law, did on 27 June instant [1820], pursuant to the license and notice to sell at public vendue at the store of William Whitaker in New Salem, the following tracts of land, being the whole of the real estate of Asa Vorce, to Jonas Vorce for the sum of $620, being the highest bidder, as follows: lot no. 10 in the 4th division and part of lot no. 11 in the 4th division, also part of lot no. 41 in the 2nd division and lot no. 43 in the 2nd division of land in New Salem, also 2/3 parts of pew no. 42 in the center meeting house and 2/3 parts of pew no. 27 in the north meeting house in New Salem, being the whole of the real estate of which Asa Vorce died seized, excepting however, the widow's right of dower in the premises, as the same has been heretofore set out, also the reversion of the said deceased widow's right of dower |
| Witnesses: | Aaron Sawyer Wm. Brooks |
| Grantor: | Jonas Vorce (yeoman, of New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts) |
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| Grantee: | Samuel Ellis (blacksmith, of New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts) |
| Date: | 1 April 1836 |
| Price: | $500 |
| Description: | certain tract or parcel of land lying in New Salem of lot no. 11, bounded as follows: beginning at a cherry tree at the southeast corner of Samuel Ellis' land & running easterly to the brook, thence on said brook by land of Nathan Haskins to Jacob Haskell's land, thence north on said Haskell's land to a stake & stones, thence westerly on said Haskell to Samuel Ellis' northeast corner to a stake & stones, thence south to the first mentioned bound |
| Witnesses: | Jabez E. Whipple David Wilber |
| Note: | Jonas Vorce together with Betsey Vorce, wife of Jonas, who relinquishes her right of dower in the premises; signed by Betsey Vorce |
| Grantor: | Jonas Vorce (yeoman, of New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts) |
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| Grantee: | Jesse Vorce (labourer, of New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts) |
| Date: | 5 September 1843 |
| Price: | $1000 |
| Description: | All the tract of land which I now own situated in New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts, with the buildings thereon |
| Witness: | Emerson Foy [i.e., Fay] |
| Note: | Jonas Vorce and Betsey Vorce, wife of Jonas Vorce, in testimony of her release of dower in the premises; signed by Betsey Vorce |
| Leasor: | Jesse Vorce (of New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts) |
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| Leasee: | Jonas Vorce (yeoman, of New Salem, Franklin, Massachusetts) |
| Date: | 5 September 1843 |
| Price: | $1 |
| Agreement: | let and lease unto Jonas Vorce all the tract of land situated in New Salem, which Jonas Vorce has this day deeded to me, to use & improve & occupy according to the rules of good husbandry, peaceably & quietly without molestation, let, or hindrance by me, or any for or under me, during the natural lives of Jonas Vorce and Betsey Vorce, the wife of Jonas Vorce, and for the use and improvement of the above said tracts of land, Jonas Vorce doth covenant and engage to pay or cause to be paid unto Jesse Vorce, his heirs or assigns, $1, and at the decease of Jonas Vorce and Betsey Vorce, the aforesaid lots of land are to return to the peaceable enjoyment of Jesse Vorce, his heirs, and assigns |
| Witness: | Emerson Fay |