These research notes are provided as-is and contain supplementary working research.
Evidence
Mendon Proprietors' Records: John Gurny's 20-acre lot, sold 1692
The Mendon proprietors' records list "John Gurny, a twenty acre lot" among the town's earliest purchasers, and trace the same lot's chain of title through recurring meadow and swamp-lot abuttal references to its sale, by deed of 3 May 1692, to Josiah Thayer.
Date: twenty-acre lot recorded from the town's earliest purchaser list (post-15 May 1667 incorporation) through its sale to Josiah Thayer, 3 May 1692
Why this conclusion
- Supports Finding Two Gurney lot-holders at post-1667 Mendon: the son and the widowJohn Gurny's Mendon lot and 1692 sale is one of the two lot-holder records synthesized.
Sources
- The Proprietors' Records of the Town of Mendon, Massachusetts: Incorporated May 15, 1667. Boston: Rockwell and Churchill Press, 1899., pp. 13, 152-153, and recurring abuttal references at pp. 29, 84, 109, 159, 185, 211, 340-341, 346, 350, 373, 462: John Gurny's twenty-acre lot and its 1692 sale to Josiah Thayer.
Topic file location: Family — Mendon: John Jr. and Ruth Bundy
Technical details
- Research item:
G13-RI-000130 - Graph revision:
244 - Machine-readable JSON:
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This is one research item from the John Gurney research graph; the fuller narrative treatment is in the linked topic above and the research library.