Hills Family Legal Papers, 1826-1900 :Finding Aid

This material consists of family legal papers from 1826 to 1900. Its primary content is deeds that document the exchange of property in Massachusetts and Connecticut. Also included are two wills and one folder of miscellaneous legal papers. Arrangement is chronological according to type.

Note: These papers should be considered as a supplement to Series 3, Legal Papers of the Hills Family Papers. See separate finding aid.

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Deeds, 1826-1858

Box	Folder
1	1	1826: Boswell Stanley of Tolland, Conn. to Samuel Hills of Tolland - land in Tolland

1829: Leonard M. Hills of Tolland, Conn. to Samuel Hills of Tolland - half of land in Tolland

1833: Ambrose Hall of Tolland, Conn. to Samuel Hills Toland -- land in Tolland

1838: Alvin Kibbe 2nd of Tolland, Conn. to Samuel Hills of Tolland -- farm in Tolland

1838: Amasa Sweet of Tolland, Conn. to Samuel Hills of Tolland -- farm in Tolland

1839: John Eveleth of Amherst, Mass. to Samuel Hills of Tolland, Conn. -- farm in Amherst

1844: Hiram Fox of Amherst, Mass. to Samuel Hills of Amherst -- land in Amherst

1844: David Whipple of Amherst, Mass. to Samuel Hills of Amherst -- land in Amherst

1847: Reuben Thayer of Amherst, Mass. to Samuel Hills of Amherst -- land in Amherst [next to Hills land]; (recorded 1856)

1847: Sarah Williams of Amherst, Mass. to Samuel Hills of Amherst -- land in Amherst

1849: Simeon Prince of Amherst, Mass. to Samuel Hills of Amherst -- farm in Amherst

1853: Guardian's Deed -- Samuel Hills of Amherst, Mass., as guardian of John and Josiah Thayer, children of Samuel Thayer, deceased, to Oliver Curtis of Amherst -- land in Amherst

1854: Savannah Thayer of Amherst, Mass. to Oliver Curtis of Amherst -- land in Amherst [next to Samuel Hills farm] (recorded 1856)

1855: Dwight Dunbar of Pelham, Mass. to Samuel Hills of Amherst -- real estate in Pelham

1855: William Newell of Pelham, Mass. to Samuel Hills of Amherst -- land in Pelham

1857: Anson F. Hills of Amherst, Mass. to Samuel Hills of Amherst -- land in Amherst (recorded 1863)

1858: Albert Jewett and Vileria Jewett of Pelham, Mass. to Oliver Curtis of Amherst -- land in Pelham

Deeds, 1861-1900

Box	Folder
1	2	[1861]: Town of Amherst, Mass. to Oliver Curtis and Samuel Hills of Amherst -- cemetery lot

1864: Reuben Thayer of Amherst, Mass. to Oliver Curtis of Amherst -- land in Amherst

1866: Reuben Thayer of Amherst, Mass. to Samuel Hills of Amherst -- land in Amherst

1866: Lycurgus Cook of Belchertown, Mass. and John Jones of Pelham to Samuel Hills and Harison Hanley of Amherst -- land in Pelham

1870: James Allen of Amherst, Mass. to Frank Curtis and Thomas Hastings of Amherst -- wood lot in Pelham

1871: Thomas Hastings of Amherst, Mass. to Frank Curtis of Amherst -- land in Pelham

1871: Samuel Hills of Amherst, Mass. to Frank Curtis of Amherst -- land in Amherst

1874: Amos Gray of Hadley, Mass. to Oliver Curtis of Amherst -- land in Belchertown

1879: Samuel Hills of Amherst, Mass. to Frank Curtis of Amherst -- land in Amherst

1879: James Twohig of Pelham, Mass. to F. A. Curtis and E. B. Sears of Amherst -- land in Pelham

1880: E. B. Sears of Amherst, Mass. to O. H. and J. O. Curtis of Amherst -- land in Pelham

1885: B. F. Kendrick of Amherst, Mass. to Frank Curtis of Amherst -- two lots in Pelham

1899: Plimpton of Northampton, Mass., Curtis of Amherst, Mass., and Curtis of Hartford, Conn. to Frank Curtis of Amherst -- real estate in Amherst willed by Samuel Hills [deceased 1880] to Oliver and Emily Curtis for their lives and the life of the survivor with remainder to their children [the deedors are the children; both parents are deceased]

1900: Emily Curtis of Amherst, Mass. to Frank Curtis -- land in Belchertown

Wills, 1875, 1897

Box	Folder
1	3	1875: Samuel Hills of Amherst, Mass.

1897: Oliver Curtis of Amherst, Mass. [codicil, 1899]

Papers, 1844-1897

Box	Folder
1	4	1844: John Eveleth of Amherst, Mass. to Samuel Hills -- Release of Mortgage

1851: Rebecca Dickinson to Simeon Prince -- Release of a Mortgage

1893: James Allen of Amherst, Mass. to [A.W.] Curtis and Son of Amherst -- Rights and Easements [water rights to springs in Amherst]

1897: Ephraim Sabin of Amherst, Mass. to L. D. Hills of Amherst -- Lease for College Street, Amherst

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Hills Family Legal Papers, 1826-1900

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Finding aid prepared by Sarah Sorscher, Peter Nelson, Deborah Pelletier.

Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

© 2003

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