Our Friday Find: It is human nature…whether in exercise class, the movie theater, or church. We have a certain spot we always sit in. We can get very indignant when someone is in “our spot.” If you are nodding at this, you’ll like this find.
Pews at early meeting houses were sold to families to raise money for the operation of the church. They were purchased, sold, and inherited and were formally recorded at the Registry of Deeds.
Dated 9 July 1813
Samuel Reed, executor of Samuel Reed’s estate (his father), to James Kimball, yeoman, for the sum of $54.00 ”…the said pew being situate in the southerly part of said meeting house being the first pew on the easterly side of the door at the southerly end of said meeting house on the lower floor and numbered thirty nine”
Recorded at Middlesex Registry of Deeds
Stands to reason Mr. Kimball never had to shoo anyone out of his spot on Sunday morning.
