1775 SALEM DEED FOR MEETING HOUSE PEW: From the original 1997 Early American History Auctions catalog: '' Deed for a Pew in the Meeting House, March 10, 1775, Salem (Massachusetts), 12 1/2'' x 7 1/2'', Very Fine. Partly printed document, accomplished in manuscript, deeding a pew to John Buffington, mariner, for which he paid 14 pounds. Four members of the ''Committee Appointed by the Proprietors of the South Meeting-House in Salem to sell and convey Pews in the same House'', sign the document, each his seal.''