What is most significant about this 1787 deed is the grouping of human lives — enslaved people — with real estate.

James Leo (Buddy) Burke, a lifelong Montauker who owned and operated Burke’s 24-hour Oil Burner Service, died in his sleep on Feb. 5 at the age of 95.

Helga Koegl Coppola, who began summering in Montauk in the 1970s and moved there full time in the 1980s, died of respiratory complications on Feb. 6 at Stony Brook Southampton Hospital. She was 88.

Donald D. Wells Jr. of East Hampton, who ran his own company, Action Irrigation, for 30 years, died at home on Feb. 15. He was 77.