52 ANCESTORS IN 52 WEEKS 2015 WEEK 29: EDWARD COLBOURNE REVISITED PT3

I mentioned in the previous post that I'd found my ancestor Edward Colbourne's probate file
at American Ancestors .org and that the handwriting on some of the document pages is a little
difficult to read. Here's an example:

Middlesex County, MA: Probate File Papers, 1648-1871.Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (From records supplied by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Archives.)



On the other hand, I also located the image of the land Edward sold to his son Joseph, also my
ancestor, and that for the most part is very legible. It begins at the bottom of the left hand page:

(https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-36173-4062-4?cc=2106411&wc=MC1M-ZN5:361613501,364521301 : accessed 3 August 2015), Middlesex > Deeds 1696-1716 vol 12-13 > image 230 of 832; county courthouses and offices, Massachusetts.

About the only part of the document that is a bit tricky is the bit at the end where the person
recording the land sale gets a bit flamboyant. But in both cases, it's always a thrill to discover
images of documents involving an ancestor!

I'll discuss Edward's children and his wife in the next and final post in this series.

To be continued.