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Robert, of Chester, N. S., June 7, 1773, of a tract of land of sixty three acres in Nottingham West, New Hampshire, to his son, Eleazer Melvin, housewright, of Littleton, Mass., and this deed was sworn in the presence of Jonathan Prescott, Justice of the Peace in Halifax (Middlesex County, Mass., Deeds, Vol. 27, p. 178).
Eleazer and Hannah [Brown] Melvin [2nd wife], of Lincoln, he a housewright, or joiner, gave a mortgage deed, on a farm lately owned by Benjamin Brown and then occupied by the said Benjamin (Middlesex County Deeds, Vol. 95, p. 142)
In 1792, Eleazer's estate was levied upon, even his pew in the Lincoln meeting house.
