Extract of an 1811 Mortgage between Jonathan Dana Clark and Abigail Emerson for 140-1/2 Acres in Berwick, Maine

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Extract of an 1811 Mortgage of Jonathan Dana Clark (abt 1756-1817) of Berwick, Maine, to Abigail Emerson, Widow, in the amount of $256 for her purchase of 140-1/2 acres of land in Berwick, in the area of Chadbourn's Pond and Great Works River.  

Note: Berwick was much larger in 1811 than it is now; South Berwick was set off in 1813 and North Berwick in 1831, with other portions set off later.

Widow Abigail may have been Abigail (Lyman) Emerson (1765-1836), whose husband Edward Emerson, Jr., had died in 1803.

The extractor was William Frost, Register, presumably York County Treasurer William Frost (1754-1836), many of whose papers are held at Yale University.  

Read the original instrument on page 57 of Book 87 - scroll to the next image.  The extract notes that the acreage was bounded by land owned by Chadbourn, Grant and Merriam, but the original goes into far more detail.

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