Caesar Toney is my 5th great-grandfather. He married Margaret (Peggy) Romsor of Worcester on 7 September 1756 in Upton, MA. Peggy and Caesar had two sons Caesar Jr. and Abraham. Caesar Jr. and Abraham married two Narragansett sisters, Susannah and Mary Harry.
Caesar and Peggy and their family lived on their own farm in Upton, MA - a bit unusual for people of African descent in 1700s New England. John Hazelton (who founded a few Massachusetts towns before moving to Vermont) both sold and gifted land to Caesar in 1754. The deed and it's transcription are below.
Transcription of Quitclaim Deed
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Hazeltine to Toney Worcester County,
Massachusetts Bay Colony Drawn 10 December 1753, Recorded 12 April 1754
Worcester County, MA Registry of Deeds Book 35, Page 20
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“To all People To whom these Presents shall come Greeting Know ye that I
John Hazeltine of Sutton in the County of Worcester & Province of the
Massachusetts Bay in new England Esq For and in Consideration of the Love and good Will I do bear to Cesar
Tony hereafter more fully mentioned and
discribed [sic] as also for and in consideration of the Sum of Twenty
Two Pounds Eight Shillings Lawfull money of this Province to me in hand well and truly paid by the said
Cesar Tony of Upton in the County of
Worcester and Province aforesaid Negroman Laborer the Receipt where of I do have by acknowledge
and my self therewith fully Satisfied
and contented and thereof and of every part and parcel thereof do Exonerate acquit and discharge him the
said Cesar Tony his heirs Executors and
admd forever by these Presents have given Released Quitclaimed granted bargained aliened
conveyed & confirmed and by these
Presents do give Release and and quit claim and freely fully and absolutely give grant bargain aliene
convey and confirm unto him the said Cesar Tony and his heir forever a Certain
Tract of Land Scituate [sic]in
Upton aforesaid near the �Dwelling [“now” inserted above Dwelling] House of John Clemons
Containing Twenty acres fourteen acres of which
I the said John Clemons Hazeltine sell to the said Cesar Tony for
the sum of money above mentioned and the other six acres I the said John Hazeltine do freely give and quitclaim
to him the said Cesar Tony as aforesaid
to Encourage him to be a good Husbandman
and I bound and discribe the whole twenty acres to him the said
Cesar Tonny [sic]as follows
[illegible] beginning at a heap of stones northwesterly Corner of the land of John Clemons aforesaid
and from thence it runs Westerly Twenty
Six Rod to a heap of stones and thence
it runs Southerly to a heap of stones and so continuing near or the same Course in all tell one- hundred
and Twenty Six Rod is near out to Henry Walkers Land then it [inkblot] Turns
and Runs Easterly on said Walkers Land
Twenty Six Rod to John Clemons Land aforesd and thence northerly and by said Clemons Land
one hundred and Twenty Six Rod to the
Bounds first mentioned To have and to
Hold the said given and quitclaimed granted & Bargained Premises with all the appurtenances Priviledges [sic]
and Comodities [sic] to the same
belonging or in any wise appertaining to him the said Cesar Tony
and his Heirs forever to his and their own proper
use benefit & behoof forever and I the said John Hazeltine for my self my
heirs Executors and Adms do Covenant
promise and grant to and with him the
said Cesar Tony and his Heirs that before the Ensealing hereof I am the True sole and Lawfull owner
of the above quitclaimed and bargained
premises and am lawfully Seized and Possessed
of the same in my own proper Right as a good and perfect Estate of Inheritance in fee simple and have in my
self good Right full Power and Lawfull
authority to grant bargain sell convey
and confirm said bargained and quit claimed Premises in manner as aforesaid and that the said Cesar Tony
and his heirs shall and may from Time
To Time and at all Times forever hereafter by force & Virtue of these presents Lawfully peaceably
and quietly have hold use occupy
possess and enjoy the quitclaimed [crossed out-illegible] demised & Bargained premises with the appurtenances
free & clear & freely &
clearly acquitted Exonerated and discharged of from all and all manner of former and other gifts grants bargains
Sales Leases Mortgages
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Wills entails Jointures Doweries Judgements
Executions or Incumbrances of what Name or
Nature that might obstruct or make void this present Deed
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Furthermore I the said John Hazeltine for my self my
Heirs exet and adms do covenant
and engage the above quitclaimed & demised to him the said Cesar Tony
& his heirs against the Lawfull
Claims or Demands of any Person or Persons forever to – Warrant Secure and
defered by these Presents. In Witness to all above written I have
hereunto set my hand and seal this tenth
day of December one thousand seven hundred and fifty three and in the Twenty Seventh year
of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George
the Second of great Brittain France and Ireland King [illegible] John Hazeltine (seal) Signed Sealed &
Delivd in presence of Alexander Clayton J[illegible] Aldrich Worcester Ss February 7th 1754 the
within named John Hazeltine acknowledged
the within written Instrument to be his free Voluntary act & deed
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Before me Charles Brigham Justice of
the Peace April 12th 1754 Recd &
accordingly entered & Examd J Chandler
Reg”
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Until next time,
Cher
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