Deeds of Mount Desert Island
Peters Plan - C24
a project of
V. F. Thomas Co. - P. O. Box 84 - Hulls Cove, Maine 04644
info@vfthomas.com
(updated 25 May 2016)
The deed found in book 1 on pages 451–452 covered two parcels on the Peters Plan: B25 (first lot) and C24 (second/back lot). This web page will follow transactions involving the second/back lot.
1:451–452
Date: 28 March 1792
Town: Bar Harbor
Grantors: Bartholomy DeGregoire and Maria Theresa DeGregoire
Grantee: Levi Higgins
Description: 100 acres in 2 lots:
first lot:
beginning at the fence between Elkanah Young and Levi Higgins;
run first S 45° W 100 rods to a poplar tree;
then [S] 56.25° E 137 rods to the shore;
then following the shore to the first bounds.
second lot (back lot):
beginning at a birch tree that stands at the northern corner of John Thomas’s back lot;
run first S 33.75° W 95 rods;
then due W 14 rods;
then due N 200 rods to the southern corner of Hopkins’s [lot];
then following said line 30 rods to the head of Salisbury’s lot;
then S 82° E 36 rods;
then due S 120 rods;
then S 56.25° E to the first bounds
Grantors obtained this parcel via: grant from the General Court of Massachusetts
Grantee disposed of the second/back lot of this parcel via ???:???
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