This prsent writing wittnesseth that I, Nathaniel Ward of Ipswich in New England have bargained & sould to John Eaton of Salsbury Coo[per] all the land ground meadow & Com̅onage wth their apprtincs which I have or ought to have at this prsent Day in Haverhill or Pentuckett in New England to have and to hold the said prmisses to the said John Eaton his heires & assignes paying for the same vnto the said Nathaniel Ward his executors administrs or assignes the full sum̅e of twelve pounds of wheate & pipe-staves six pounds worth of one & six pounds worth of the other to be deli[ver]ed to mr Richard Russell or Maior Sedgwick at Charles Towne before the end of September Next ensuying the Dat hereof; such as shalbe good & merchantable at the currant price at that tyme & place
In witness whereof I have set to my hand & seale.
Nath Ward Wittnes
Thomas Howlett
Edman Bridges
Transcriber's Notes
Corrections to more evident typographical errors are listed here, together with handwritten or penned changes and additions to the text, where they appear to be errata (in several cases backed up by an earlier print of the same text):
Page [5]: changed comma to semi-colon (... James, who practised medicine;)
Page [5]: changed "cotemporaries" to "contemporaries" (... estimated by his contemporaries and successors.)
Page [15]: changed period and upper case "H" to comma and lower case "h" (... when he said, he had rather the Earth should swallow him up ...)
Page [34]: handwritten insertion "one" ( ... to help them frisk from [one] ill-favor'd fashion to another.)
Page [70]: handwritten insertion "of" ( ... the luxury [of] your Court and Country, ...)