Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 9,118, for Solomon Lee, Massachusetts

SERVICE
Mass.
Lee, Solomon Rebecca
NUMBER
W.9.118
CONTENTS

Massachusetts Rebecca Lee widow of Solomon Lee Mass who served in the Revolutionary
war, as a Private
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
96 Dollars 00
Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
31 January 1853
Certificate of Pension issued the 11 th day of May 1853
and sent to
F. Hall
Boston
Mass
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act July 29, 1848, Page 42 Vol. a
1818

Notification sent July 26th 1820 to Richard Jackson, Esq.
7356
4
Massachusetts
Solomon Lee
of Manchester in the state of Massachusetts who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Putnam of the Mass: line, for the term of 3 years
Inscribed on the Roll of Massachusetts at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 30 of March 1818
Certificate of Pension issued the 6 of March 1819 and sent to Hon. Wm Wetmore Boston
Arrears to 4th of March 1819. 11 mos 6 / 31 - 89. 54 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 Sept 1819. 48 -
$137.54
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }

Col. Lee
20 th
Solomon Scribner
Potomac Miss Reg.
177-80
30 March 1818
Correct
Correct

State of Massachusetts
I Solomon Lee — a Citizen of the United States, now resident at Manchester in the County of Essex — in the State aforesaid, do on oath testify and declare, that in the War of the Revolution, on or about the first day of February In the year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred & seventy seven —
I entered and was engaged in the land — service of the United States on the continental establishment, and served accordingly from that time to the second day of February In the year Seventeen hundred & eighty, in the Massachusetts lines of the Army as a private — against the common enemy, without any interruption or absence: that I belonged to Captain White's Company in the Regiment of Colonel Peper Putnam & General Nickersons brigade — being the fifth regiment first commanded by Col. Hutchinson
and that I left the service on the second day of February being then honorably discharged
and that by reason of my reduced circumstances in life and poverty, I stand in need of assistance from my country for support, being now of the age of fifty nine years. — I have not any other evidence in my power to offer, than what is herewith exhibited, my Certificate of discharge being lost by lapse of time. —
And I hereby relinquish all claim to every pension heretofore allowed me by the laws of the United States, if any may be or hath been so allowed.
Solomon Lee
BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this tenth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen Pursuant to a law of the United States, entitled, "An Act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," made and passed on the 18th of March, A. D. 1818, personally appeareth before me the Subscriber an of the Associate Justices of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the Middle Circuit within the State aforesaid & presiding pro hac vice
the abovenamed Solomon Lee and after due examination and caution to testify and declare the whole truth, he maketh oath to the declaration aforesaid, and subscribes the same in my presence; and, on examination duly made by me said Judge, it appeareth to my satisfaction that the said declaration is true. In testimony Whereof I hereunto affix my name & the seal of said Court
W m Wetmore

I testify & say that I well know that the within named Solomon Lee served in the army of the United States as he has within declared, I having served with him
Josiah Lee
Sworn to
W m Wetmore
Judge within named

Solomon Lee
7356
Chas 1919
March 1919 not in
age 62 fokman disabi?
July 1919

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
ESSEX, ss.
At the Circuit Court of Common Pleas of the Middle Circuit, begun and holden at Salem, within and for the County of Essex, on the third Monday of June, A. D. 1820.
Present, Hon. SAMUEL DANA, Chief Justice.
Hon. WILLIAM WETMORE, and
Hon. STEPHEN MINOT, Associate Justices.
In open Court here, being a Court of Record for said Circuit, proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a record of its proceedings, and having the power of fine and imprisonment, Solomon Lee resident in Manchester in said Circuit, who is named in Pension Certificate No. 9,356 - now in his possession, of which the following is a true copy, to wit,
"WAR DEPARTMENT.....REVOLUTIONARY CLAIM."
"I certify that, in conformity with the Law of the United States, of the 18th March, 1818.
Solomon Lee — — — — — late a private "in the Army of the Revolution, is inscribed on the Pension List, Roll of the Massachusetts Agency, at the rate "of eight — — — — — dollars per month, to commence on the thirtieth "day of March — — — — — one thousand eight hundred and eighteen ."
***** * L. S. * *****
"Given at the War Office of the United States, this sixth — — — — — day "of March — — — — — one thousand eight hundred and nineteen ."
J. C. CALHOUN, Secretary of War,"
appears, and exhibits to the Court here a Schedule, subscribed by him, as follows, to wit,
SCHEDULE,
containing his whole estate and income, his necessary clothing and bedding excepted, to wit, (he owes $ 350.00)
  A quarter of an acre of land, House & wood house - $ 400.00   Three & a half acres of wood land $ 35 - half an old boat $ 50. 85.00   Case drawers $ 4 - 2 tables $ 1.50 - 12 chairs $ 2. - - - - - 9.50   Light - stand 0.20, pewter ware $ 1. 2 looking glasses 0.30. 2 p & andirons $ 1. - 2.50   Pots, kettles, tin ware $ 1. tea spoons $ 1. bible 0.50. tongs & shovel 0.50 - 3.00   Crockery $ 1. sea chest 1.50. axe 0.75. eel - spear & clam fork $ 1.00 - 4.25   Beetle & wedges 0.50 - fishing lines $ 2. hogshead salt $ 5. - - - - - 7.50   Saw, shovel, hoe - - - - - 2.00     Total - 511.95     deduct debts - 350.00     he is worth $ 161.95   
His debts are due to Sam d . Morgan, William Lee and Glen d . Tappan.

He is sixty two years old and very deaf: is a fisherman and goes fishing about four months in a year: his wife is 60, and has been attended by a physician three and a half years on account of sickness: and he has a daughter Lydia aged 21 who has always been infirm. These are all his family
He served three years from 1777 to 1780 in Capt. White's Company in Col. B. Putnam's Regiment in Massachusetts Line.
Solomon Lee

and at the same time he produces to the Court here the following Oath, taken and subscribed by him, before the Hon. W m Wetmore a Judge of said Court as aforesaid, to wit,
I, Solomon Lee - do solemnly swear, that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the revolutionary war," passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property, or securities, contracts, or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. So help me GOD.
Solomon Lee
Essex, ss. C. C. C. P. June, Term, A. D. 1820.
Then the abovenamed Solomon Lee took and subscribed the aforewritten Oath before me
W m Wetmore Judge of said Court.
I, ICHABOD TUCKER, Clerk of the Court aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath, and Schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said Court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is five hundred & eleven dollars & 75 cts, and he owes $350.-
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court, at Salem, in said County of Essex, on this 17 th day of July A. D. 1820
Attr. Ichabod Tucker Clerk

No 393 Rebecca Lee widow of Solomon Mass Oct 3 rd Feb 1857 for her annuity, paying 3 Feb 1857
Franklin Hall Boston Mass

State of Massachusetts
Essex County
On this fifteenth day of February, A. D. 1833 personally appeared in open court before the subscri- ber of Probate within and for said County, Rebecca Lee, a widow of Manchester in said County aged 83 years, who being duly sworn, did to me, clerk, on her oath, make the following declaration to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of 60th sess., sess. 3 d February, 1833.
That she is the widow of Solomon Lee who was a prisoner of the United States under the law of 18 March 1818 at the rate of ninety six dollars per annum on account of his services as a private in the war of the Revolution and who died on the twenty ninth day of October in the year 1837. For part of his services she refers to the evidence on file in the Pension Office.
She further declares that she was married to said Solomon Lee on the first day of November in the year 1830. She further swears that she is now a widow and that she has never before made any application for a pension. She further declares that she has appointed Franklin Hall of Boston her true and lawful attorney to obtain the pension if any that may be

due her on account of the services of her said husband.
Rebecca Lee
Sworn to and subscribed the day & year above written before me
R. H. White Judge of Probate

State of Massachusetts, ss. Essex County, ss.
I, Daniel H. White Judge of the Court of Probate within & for said County, do hereby certify that at a term of said Court held at Salem in and for said County on the fifteenth day of February, 1853, satisfactory evidence was produced to said Court to prove that Solomon Lee who was a Prisoner of the United States under the law of 18 March 1818 at the rate of twenty six dollars per annum was a resident of Manchester & died in said Manchester on the 29th day of October 1837 and left a widow Rebecca Lee who still remains his widow and is the identical person who has made the foregoing declaration.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & caused the seal of the Court to be affixed at Salem this fifteenth day of February in the year 1853.
D H White Judge of Probate

Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Secretary's Office, Boston, February 16 th 1853
I hereby Certify, That at the date of the annexed attestation Joseph Hooper was a Justice of the Peace for the County Essex
in the said Commonwealth, duly commissioned and constituted; and that to his acts and attestations, as such, full faith and credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the Seal of the Commonwealth, the date above written.
E. M. Wright Secretary of the Commonwealth.

A copy of a Record of a marriage as found recorded in the Records of the Town of Manchester, Essex County, Massachusetts, by John C. Long then Town Clerk.
“ Solomon Lee & Rebecca Tewksbury, both of Manchester were lawfully married Nov. first one thousand eight hundred thirty, by Rev. S. M. Emerson,”
I, John Lee, do certify that the above is a true extract from the records of said town of Manchester with the exception of the date, which is expressed on the record in full, legible figures as follows, viz. “Nov. 1. 1830.”
I John Lee, above named depose and say that I hold the office of Clerk of said Town of Manchester and that the above is a true extract from the records of said town with the exception above named as certified by me
John Lee } Town Clerk of Manchester
Essex, ss. February 5 th 1853. Subscribed and sworn to before me
Joseph Hooper Justice of the Peace.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Essex, ss. Manchester February 5 th 1853
Then personally appeared Rebecca Lee; the widow of Solomon Lee, and made oath that she is the widow of Solomon Lee, and has remained his widow since his death. Before me Joseph Hooper Justice of the Peace

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April 5, 1926
Emma G.W. Brown 113 North 19th St., Philadelphia, Penna.
Madam:
I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim W. 9118 it appears that Solomon Lee enlisted February 1, 1777, served as a private in Captain White's Company, Colonel Rufus Putnam's Massachusetts Regiment and was discharged February 8, 1780.
He was allowed pension on his application executed March 30, 1818 while a resident of Manchester, Essex County, Massachusetts aged fifty-nine years. He
In 1820 he stated that his wife was aged sixty years and daughter Lydia aged twenty-one years. His wife Jemima was living in 1823, date of her death not stated.
He married November 1, 1830 in Manchester, Massachusetts, Rebecca Tewksbury. He died October 29, 1837 in Manchester, Massachusetts and his widow Rebecca was allowed pension on her application executed February 15, 1853 while a resident of said Manchester aged eighty-three years.
The above noted is the only soldier named Solomon Lee

found on the Revolutionary War records of this Bureau.
Respectfully,
WINFIELD SCOTT Commissioner.

1912 July 13. Hirt to Mrs. C. G. Washington Miller in N. 3315 Walker Ave. C. 1926 Sept 5 - Hirt to Mrs. Emma J. H. Brown M.M.F.
Rev WIDOW, & Co.
File No. 9118
Rebecca Lee
Wid
Solomon Lee
Print Row War
Act: July 29 th  1848
Index: Vol. A , Page 427
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Manchester March 30. 1818
This may Certify that Solomon Lee of Manchester in the County of Essex and State of Massachusetts — is now a Citizen of the United States and is a person of indigent circumstan- ces and is justly entitled on that account to the pension allowed by the government of the United States for services rendered in the Revolutionary War —
Israel Porter } Selectmen Tyler Parsons } John Hooper } of Manchester
Sworn to W m Withmore Judge de

Brief in the case of Rebecca Lee, widow of Solomon Essex County and State of Mass act 3 Feb 1853
Claim, ("original," or "for increase." )
Proof exhibited, (if original.)
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance.
Husband was a prisoner under act of 18 th March 1818 at 49th St Prison. Marriage proved by certified copies of Town Records
(If for increase.)
Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what?
Name and residence of Agent Franklin Hall Boston Mass
W. C. Lee Examining Clerk.

Massachusetts Solomon Lee, priv. Served 3yrs. from 1777 -
1 st Sched: dated July 1820 Real Estate $485 - Personal — 26.75 Total $ 511.75 Indebted — 350. — Sch. & Quitt. March Mar 1823 dated 15 June 1823 Exhibits — $88.25
Still indebted more than he is able to pay accounts for the decrease of property &c. By sale of one half of House & Garden for $250 to B. Leach on the 3 rd Dec r 1822. & on the 3 rd Jan y 1823. sold the other half for $105. & on the 8 th of March 1823. sold to S. Leach 3 1/2 acres of land
for $30, & p d Leach $12.03 out of the $30. The proceeds of the sales be applied to the payment of the follow- ing debts viz —    E. Faulkner —  $66.50    Helen & Cheever  45.55    Story & Hooper  29.40    Lee & Story —  53.18    India Lee —  80.00    Preston & Baker  11.25     $310.49  
authenticated copy of Deeds furnished. —
Claimant aged 65. yrs old deaf & infirm that he cannot earn a subsistence wife - (age not given) state to be "all the time under the care of Physicians"
Ichabod Tucker Esq. Restored Salem 2 Sep 1823 Sep 1819 669 26 Mass.

Ans - April 1926
112 n 1981
Phila Pa
Feb 24 1926
Dear Commissioner
Can you please Inform me of Solomon Lee of Mass whose pension records show he served as a private in Capt Wofford Whiles Co in the Ballahon of mass Bay Forces com by Col Rufus Putnam also distinguished 5 Bat - of mass Bay Forces he Enlist ed 1 Feb 1777 3 years and discharge Feb 1 1780 -
Respectfully Mrs B G Washington Brown

Feb 17 1926
Dear Commissioner
Can you please tell me  or me of Solomon Lee of Manchester Mass drew a pension he was in the Revolutionary War Nov 1776 and for three years in Continental Army Feb 1 1777 to Feb 1 1780 - Born Jan 16 1733/4 - or did Solomon Jr get Pension - who served

I am desirous of obtaining my own record and was present in taking Bor- Burrows army in 1781
Thanking you
I am sincerely
Emma G Washington Brown
112 N 19 Street
Phila Pa
My Great Grand Father
was a son of one of these soldiers
Joseph Lee - and -
He served Malross capt John Douglass's co John Lash's 2 artillery
Muder Roll's List April 1781 dated near Point Enlistment was for war on command at Artillery Park in April 1781
I am a D A R through his services he is buried in Vaucluse Co
she had the high jumper and as she does not ask the time I do not read it

In reply to your request of _____, received for a statement of the military history of Solomon Tice a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     July 1, 1777 to July 2, 1780 3 yrs. Private W. H. H. Rufus Putnam Mass.   discharged at Bunker Hill              
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, _____
Date of application for pension, March 30, 1818
Residence at date of application, Mendota, Iowa, Mass.
Age at date of application, 59 years
Remarks: In 1820 he stated his wife was 60 yrs. of age and dau. Lydia 21 yrs. Wife Joanna was alive in 1823, no date of death shown. He mar. Mar. 1, 1830 Rebecca Cook; he died Oct. 20, 1837; she was alive in 1853 at age of Mendota - 83 yrs.
Very respectfully,

Declaration of Solomon Lee
Ichabod Tucker Jr Salem Mass #3

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Essex ss.
At the court of common Pleas begun and holden at Salem within and for the county of Essex on the third Monday Monday of June A.D. 1823.
On this sixteenth day of June 1823 personally appears in open court here, the same being a court of record proceeding according to the course of the common law, with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount, keeping a Record, its proceedings and having the power of fine and imprisonment. Solomon Lee, resident in said county, aged 65 years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath, make the following Declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the acts of the 18 th March 1818, the 1 st May 1820, and 1 st March 1823, that he the said Lee enlisted for the term of three years on the first day of January 1777 in the company commanded by Capt. White, in the Regiment commanded by Col. Rufus Putnam in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the continental establishment and that he continued to serve in the corps until Jan y 1780 when he was discharged from the said service at Soldier's Fortune in the State of New York.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18 th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me; nor have I any income other than what

is contained in the following  Schedule
  base of Drawers $4. two tables $1.50 twelve chair $2.  $7.50    Light stand $0 20 pewter ware $1.00. two looking glasses $20  1.50    two pair decanters $1.00. Pots, Kettles & tin ware $1  2.00    Tea spoons $1.00 Bible 0.50 shovel & long $0.50  2.00    crockery $1.00 sea chest 1.50 axe 0.75 set spear & clam fork $10.75  2.25    beetle and wedges 0.50 Saw 0.50 - half an old boat $20.00  21.00     $38.25  
That since the exhibition of my first Schedule the following changes have been made in my property:-
On the 3 d Dec r . last I conveyed and sold to Israel Foster the lower half of the dwelling house, woodhouse and garden mentioned in my first schedule for two hundred and fifty dollars in money: the other half of the same I sold and conveyed on the 3 d January last to Benjamin Leach for the sum of one hundred and five dollars in money; and on the 8 th of March last I sold and conveyed to said Leach my three and a half acres of woodland for thirty dollars in money, first deducting from said $30.00 the sum of twenty two doll s and sixty three cents which I then owed to said Leach: and with the proceeds of said sales I paid the following just debts, viz t
  March 26. 1823 to Dr Enoch Faulkner  $66.80    April 25. 1823 to Dr Asa Storey  16.23    March 15. 1823 to Sarah Allen  35.42    May 15. 1823 to John Cheever  11.13    March 25. 1823 to Abigail Hooper  13.23    Dec. 6 - 1822 to Arthur Story  26.58    April 3 d 1823 to Andrew Lee  26.60    Jan y . 3 d 1823 to Lydia Lee  80.60    March 18. 1823 to Nancy Preston  3.00    March 25. 1823 to Joseph Baker  8.25  
and I owe many other debts which I am unable to pay. I am 64 years of age - was a seaman when I could work my family consists of a wife who is sick and all the time under the care of a physician - I am very deaf - and am so infirm and poor that I cannot earn a subsis-

We Eben Tappan & D L Bingham both of Manchester lawful age Depose and say that it is our opinion that Solomon See of Manchester has sold his real estate for a fair price. Manchester May 28-1823
Ebenezer Tappan
Deborah L. Bingham
Essex ss May 28-1823 The above named Ebenezer Tappan and D L Bingham is sworn to the truth of the above Deposition by them subscribed
Before Me David Colby justice of the peace
Essex. I certify that said Colby is a Justice of the Peace for said County, and the above is his signature.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk of the Judicial Courts within and for the County of Essex.

Copy Solomon Lee to Benjamin Leach jr.
ten
57 p

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I Solomon Lee
the County of Essex & Commonwealth of
in consideration of ... Dollars ... paid ... Benjamin Leach Jr of Manchester in the afore said Commonwealth mariner
(the receipt whereof do hereby acknowledge) do hereby give, grant, sell and convey unto the said
Benjamin Leach Jr three fourth parts of a certain tract of land in Manchester aforesaid which was formerly the Estate of
Deceased being the South Division Lots ... bounded Easterly on wood Land of Abner Allen John Allen & heirs of William Lee Deceased and westerly on passage wood Land then
Easterly on wood of William Haddam & Rods then westerly on said ... to Land of Nathan Allen then southerly on
... to Bounds first mentioned containing ... and fourths be the same more or less ... Land I Bought of J Hooper and J Kidfield
To HAVE and to HOLD the granted premises with the appertenances to the said
heirs and assigns, to their use and benefit forever. And the said Solomon Lee for myself
heirs, executors and administrators, do hereby covenant with the said Benjamin Leach Jr
heirs and assigns—That I have lawfully seized in fee of the premises—That they are free of all incumbrances—That I have
good right to sell and convey the same to the said Benjamin Leach Jr and that
he will, and my heirs, executors and administrators shall, warrant and defend the same to the said Benjamin Leach Jr and his heirs and
assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of any persons. and Semina the wife of the said Solomon Lee hereby
Consents to quit her right of dower in said premises
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we the said Solomon Lee and Semina his wife have hereunto set Our hand, and seals, this Eight day of March, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Twenty three
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of us, Solomon Lee (L S) Semina Lee (L S) Lydia Lee Ariel Lee
Essex ss. March 8 1823 with above named Solomon Lee acknowledged the above instrument to be his free act and deed before me David Colby Justice of the Peace
True copy of record. Book 231 Page 54. Witness my hand & seal this 8th day of March 1823

Copy Solomon Lee to Israel Foster

Know, all Men, by these Presents, That
Solomon Lee of Manchester in County of Essex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts mariner
in consideration of Two hundred and fifty dollars paid to Israel Forster of the town County and State aforesaid gentleman
the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, do hereby give, grant, sell and convey unto the said Israel Forster the one half of a dwelling
That viz all the lower part the south half of the garret and the north half of the cellar and the western half of the garden the north half of the Barn with a common privilege to Pass the way from the garret likewise too and from the cellar to the common land around the house the same situated in Manchester aforesaid
to be had for the particular boundaries & privileges of the Committee in the division of my Father's Estate
To have and to hold the granted premises with the appurtenances to the said Israel Forster his heirs and assigns, to their use and benefit forever. And I the said Solomon Lee for myself heirs, executors and administrators, do hereby covenant with the said Israel Forster and with his heirs and assigns, That I am lawfully seized in fee of the premises: that they are free of all incumbrances; that I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said Israel Forster and that I will, and my heirs, executors and administrators shall, warrant and defend the same to the said Israel Forster his heirs and assigns, forever, against the lawful claims and demands of any persons.
and Lemima the wife of said Solomon Lee hereby consents to quit her right of dower in said premises
In witness whereof, We the said Solomon Lee & Lemima his wife have hereunto set our hands and seals, this third day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Twenty two
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of us,
Signed Benj Leach Jr Isaac P Crafts
Signed Solomon Lee (L S) Lemima Lee (L S)
Essex ss. March 3
Solomon Lee acknowledged the above instrument to be his free act and deed
May 8. 1853 acknowledged and examined by Amos Chase Reg Brook 730 Hague. William Eliot Reg
Signed Daniel Coffey
1822. — Then the above act

Copy Solomon See to Benjamin Seach p.

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That I Solomon Lee the County of Essex and Commonwealth mariner
in consideration of one hundred & five Dollars paid
(the receipt whereof do hereby acknowledge ) do hereby give, grant, sell and convey unto the said Benjamin Leach Jr the one half of a dwelling house situate in Manchester viz the Chambers the Eastern half of the garret the Northern half of the garret the Southern half of the cellar the Eastern half of the Barn and a common Privilege to pass the Stairs too and from the garret into the cellar with half the Common Line around the house as described in the return of the Committee who severed the Premises from the estate of my Father deceased
To HAVE and to HOLD the granted premises with the appurtenances to the said Benjamin Leach Jr his heirs and assigns, to their use and benefit forever. And I the said Solomon Lee for myself heirs, executors and administrators, do hereby covenant with the said Benjamin Leach Jr his heirs and assigns—That I am lawfully seized in fee of the premises—That they are free of all incumbrances—That I have good right to sell and convey the same to the said Benjamin Leach Jr and that I will, and my heirs, executors and administrators shall, warrant and defend the same to the said Benjamin Leach Jr his heirs and assigns forever, against the lawful claims and demands of any persons.
and I Lemima the wife of the said Solomon Lee hereby consents to quit her right of dower in said Premises
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, we the said Solomon Lee & Lemima his wife have hereunto set our hand, and seal, this thirteenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three
Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of us,
Arthur Story Edward Goldsmith
Solomon Lee (L S) Lemima Lee (L S)
Essex ss April 5 1823 the above named Solomon Lee acknowledged the above instrument to be his free act & Deed before me
David Colby Justice of the peace
True copy of record, Book 137 Page 60. Attest: Charles H. [unclear] Recorded and enrolled by Amos [unclear] May 5. 1823

lence, and am unable to subsist without aid from public or private charity
Solomon Lee.
Subscribed and sworn to before John H Williams (Judge of the Court of Common Pleas appraised $38 25
I Ichabod Tucker Clerk of the court aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing Oath and Schedule have been admitted to the Record of the said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is thirty eight dollars twenty five cents.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court on this sixteenth day of June A.D. 1823.
Ichabod Tucker, { Clerk of the Court for the County of Essex

Essex ss: July 23. 1823 I certify that Amos Choate Esq is Register of Deeds for the County of Essex duly chosen and sworn and that his Signature within written is his proper hand.
Attest.
Ichabod Tucker, Clerk of the Dist. Court.