Exert from deed conveying foundry and house property
Chester Municipal Heritage Society
Exert from deed conveying foundry and house property. John Stanford coveys and assigns unto the said Forman Hawboldt his heirs and assigns , all that piece of land situate in Chester, aforesaid, known as the mill property, containing two acres more or less, but subject to a right of way reserved by Robert Smith below the dam for himself to cross to his land and excepting the land owned by the Halifax and South Western Railway Company ( the house lot) and a piece of land in said Chester Town plot containing three acres more or less (the foundry land) excepting the water privileges owned by Hugh Stanford.