This is a deed written by Samuel Jones to show he was conveying land he owned in Lexington, Mass. to Daniel Harrington in May 1763. Jones was a blacksmith, according to the deed, and for one hundred pounds, he was selling his land to Harrington, who later became involved in the fighting against the British during the Revolutionary War. Harrington was also a blacksmith and lived near the Lexington Green and Buckman’s Tavern, so he was aware of all that was happening on the evening of April 18, 1775, when a mounted patrol of British Regulars passed through town looking for weapons and to seize Samuel Adams and John Hancock, and he was probably one of a number of militiamen who immediately gathered at Buckman’s Tavern to discuss the event. We don’t know if he fought on the Lexington Green, but in May 1775, he served under Captain John Bridge in Cambridge during the siege of Boston. In March 1776, he was commissioned a First Lieutenant in Captain Francis Brown’s 8th Company in the Third Middlesex County Regiment of the Massachusetts Militia; he served for three months in Boston and one in Dorchester, Mass., and he served in Captain George Minot’s Company with Colonel Ballard’s Regiment in the fall of 1777, and in the patriots’ march to Bennington, Vermont, during the Ticonderoga campaign. He was commissioned captain in March, 1778 and commanded a company in Colonel Jonathan Reed’s regiment of guards at Cambridge for three months in 1778, so he clearly participated in the Revolutionary War. The deed was witnessed by Esther Jones, Samuel Jones’ wife, and the deed lays out the boundaries of his land for all to see. This included four and three-quarter acres that touched on land owned by Reverend Jonas Clark, who was instrumental in saving the lives of John Hancock and Samuel Adams at the very beginning of the Revolutionary War. The deed was signed on May 12, 1763 and recorded on Oct 12, 1765, with two recording stamps on the lower right, and it measures 13 1/4 x 8 in. wide, with seam splits along the top two folds, light browning, the two seams can be repaired, and a document related to Jonas Clark, whose parsonage became a haven of safety for John Hancock and Samuel Adams, two of the most important figures of the American Revolution. #3543 #77