Williams retired to Weymouth, on the Cape, and sold the house to us in 1976, when we emptied our savings accounts, maxed out our credit cards and took the largest mortgage they would give us to buy it. So this house is now three-quarters of a century old and has been sold only once during all that time. (After you buy it, probably it won't get sold again, for what will be the second time, until the 22nd century.) It is truly a Forever Home.
The bank found a flaw in the title—a missing conveyance—and made Williams go to Land Court and obtain a registered deed. The bronze Land Court seals can be seen embedded in rocks at the two front corners of the lot. The rear corners, back then, were across the water. Only the east corner was marked by a chiseled seal in the rock. The west corner was in the middle of Indian Creek.
This property thus conveys with a registered title deed, not a quitclaim deed, perhaps making overkill of title insurance.
