Know all men by these presents that we Amos Fisher of
Dedham in the County of Suffolk in the Province of the Mas-
sachusetts bay in New England Yeoman, John Fisher of
Needham Jeremiah Fisher of Dedham in the County Afores^dYeoman, Heires to the Estate of Ensign Dan^l Fisher formerly of
s^d Dedham Rec^d for Divin Good Causes and Considerations
is hereunto moveing, have Revised Released and for Ever quitted
Claim and by these Presents do for our Selves our Heires [ ]
fully freely and absolutely Revise Release and for ever quit
Claim unto the Heires of John Stebbins late of Northam upon
Deceas^d. and to Every of them and to their Heires and assignes
for
Ever all our Right Title Interest Claim and Demand whatsoever
which we now have or which we our Selves our Heires Execu
or Administrators Shall or may at Any time hereafter have
of in or to all that Tract or Tracts Parcel or Parcels of Land
or
Meadow w^th all and Singular the Priviledges and Appurten=
Thereunto belonging which was formerly Drawn by Land Ensign
David Fisher: [viz] Thirteen Cow Commons being the Twenty Eighth
alotments the House Lot being the fourty first in Number
all the s^d Tract or Tracts of Land and Meadow Are Situate
Lying and being in the Townshipe of Deerfield Bounded as
follows [viz] One Lot in Harrow Meadow, butting East on the
House Lots West on Deerfield River Southerly on Land of Eliezer
Hawks, North on Land of Sam Dickenson, One Lot on Eagle
Brook Plain Butting East on the Common Field fence, West on
Highway, South on Land of Eliaz^e Hawks, North on Land of
Sam Dickenson; One lot in Newfort butting on
Deerfield River East; on a hill or Mountain West bounded
South on Land of Eliez^e Hawks, North on Land of Sam
Childs; One Lot in the Second Division butting on the
Meadow fence East, on a Hill or Mountain West bounded
South on Land of Eliez^e Hawks North on Land of Sam^lTaylor

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Deerfield, Massachusetts, was settled on land granted by the General Court to the Proprietors of Dedham, near Boston, in the late 1660s. The town was laid out and the lots assigned in 1671 by Lt. Joshua Fisher (d.1672) of Dedham. Remarkably none of the Dedham men permanently settled in Deerfield. In 1722 three sons of Ensign Daniel Fisher (d. in Dedham 1683), Amos (b.1654), John (b.1656), and Jeremiah (b.1658), all of Dedham, quitclaimed their land in Deerfield to the heirs of John Stebbins (1626-1679), late of Northampton. The heir, John Stebbins (1647-1724), a carpenter, lived in Deerfield and owned land on Lot 35 and on Lot 12.

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