Gurney house & orchard, Monatiquot
Place research page generated from the structured place spine and the companion place markdown.
A house, orchard, a five-acre parcel on the Monatiquot River ('at Monotecott'), and an adjoining half-acre that John Gurney owned outright in the Braintree middle precinct (now Braintree center/East Braintree) and sold to Richard Thayer, planter, for £14 on 12 February 1661/2 (possession given 16 April 1662). The five-acre parcel was bounded by the Monatiquot River on the south and the lands of Richard Thayer, Nathaniel Mott, and John Hodman (east), Symond Crosby (north), and George Oldredge (west). This freehold was distinct from, and several miles from, the Tyng leasehold up at Mount Wollaston.
Linked ancestors
- G13 John Gurney Probable landholding / property reference
Research notes
John Gurney owned a freehold in the Braintree middle precinct (now Braintree center/East Braintree): a house, orchard, a five-acre parcel on the Monatiquot River (“at Monotecott”), and an adjoining half-acre. He sold it to Richard Thayer, planter, for £14 on 12 February 1661/2, giving possession “by turffe & Twigg” on 16 April 1662; he signed by mark, witnessed by Peter Brackett and John Rockwell. The five-acre parcel was bounded by the Monatiquot River (south) and the lands of Richard Thayer, Nathaniel Mott, and John Hodman (east), Symond Crosby (north), and George Oldredge (west) — Thayer was assembling a contiguous riverside holding. No record names who held the parcel before John.[1]
This freehold was several miles from, and a different precinct than, John’s leased Tyng farm at Mount Wollaston. See the John Gurney (G13) companion and Braintree.
Suffolk Deeds, Liber V (registry transcription), pp. 457–459, John Gurney of Braintree, tailor, to Richard Thayer, sealed 12 February 1661/2, recorded 12 June 1668; Samuel A. Bates, The Ancient Iron Works at Braintree, Mass. (1898), p. 10; full transcript at
sources/corpus_supplement/suffolk-deeds-lib5-457-459-john-gurney-thayer-deed.md. Source IDs:bates-ancient-iron-works-braintree-1898;familysearch-fulltext-search. ↩︎