"Deodatus Curtis, who was called a planter, was in Braintree in 1640. He died about 1647 and his land, 7 acres, was sold before his death to Martin Saunders and Francis Eliot, who resold Dec. 4, 1651 to Thomas Barrett. It was bounded on the west by Thomas Burt (Barrett?), on the south by the common, on the north by Barnabas Perrifall, and on the east by Nathaniel Herman. It was in present Quincy, or West Quincy. He may have come here via Barbados as Bristol Deeds 1-27 gives a deposition of his son Solomon with a paper listing 'the goods belonging to Deodatus Curtis in the hands of Mr. John Delahay, Attorney, dated at Barbados July 20, 1639. Deposition was taken Nov. 26, 1690. The list is chiefly sugar and tobacco. … The first entry in Braintree records as now extant is the birth of Solomon Curtis. In 1645 Deodatus Curtis was one of the Braintree men who petitioned the General Court for land for a new plantation."
