Deeds of Mount Desert Island
Peters Plan - F19
a project of
V. F. Thomas Co. - P. O. Box 84 - Hulls Cove, Maine 04644
info@vfthomas.com
(updated 11 June 2016)
1:368–369
Date: 28 March 1792
Town: Bar Harbor
Grantors: Bartholomy DeGregoire and Maria Theresa DeGregoire
Grantee: Thomas Wasgatt Sr. [under the name Thomas Wasgatt (i.e., no “Sr.”)]
Description: 100 acres (exclusive of roads)
Beginning at a stump that stands on the east side of a small brook, which stump is the bounds between the said Thomas Wasgatt Sr. and Solomon Higgins;
thence running first S 45° W 389 rods to a spruce tree;
then N 45° [W?] 40 rods to a hemlock tree;
then N 45° E to the shore;
then N following the shore to the first mentioned bounds.
Grantors obtained this parcel via: grant from the General Court of Massachusetts
Grantee disposed of the northwest longitudinal half (= 50 acres) of this parcel via 5:215
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5:215
Date: 5 April 1793
Town: Bar Harbor
Grantors: Thomas Wasgatt Sr. [under the name Thomas Wasgatt (i.e., no “Sr.”)]
Grantee: Moses Wasgatt
Description: 50 acres, the northwest longitudinal half of the 100 acres purchased from the DeGregoires via 1:368–369
Beginning at the shore at William [Wasgatt]’s northeasterly corner bound;
[then] running southwesterly in said William [Wasgatt]’s range to the head of my [Thomas Wasgatt’s] lot;
then extending southeasterly an equal distance at the shore and the head so as to include the said 50 acres.
Note: also included were “one-half the dwelling house and half the barn”; Moses used this parcel as collateral for a loan from Thomas Wasgatt (6:395).
Grantor obtained this parcel via 1:368–369
Grantee disposed of this parcel via ???:???
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