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Deed – Secretary of State, New York. Deed Book 26, pgs 229-230 John Stites & wife Susannah This Indenture made the fourteenth day of August in the
year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety four between John Stites
of the State of New Jersey Merchant and Susannah his wife of the one part and
John Innes Clarke of the town of Providence in the State of Rhode Island and
John B. Murray of the City of New
York Merchants of the other part Witnesseth that the said John Stites and Susannah his wife
for and in consideration of the sum of fifteen hundred
pounds current money of the State of New York to them in hand paid at or
before the ensealing and delivery of these presents by the said John Innes
Clarke and John B. Murray the
receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath granted bargained sold aliened
remised released conveyed assured enfeoffed and confirmed fully freely and
absolutely by these presents unto the said John Innes Clarke and John
B. Murray’s heirs and assigns forever All these several lots or tracts
of lands situate lying and being in the County of Washington being part of
Totten and Crossfields purchase and in the town of Peterborough otherwise called
Township No. 30 granted by letters of patent of the people of the State of New
York bearing date the … day of ……. 17..
to Peter Van Burgh Livingstone and Elias Bondinot and which said lots in
the general partition of said Patent fell to the share of the said Elias
Bondinot Esquire and are distinguished and known in a map of the said Township
by Lots numbers four, six, , eight, ten, twelve, fourteen, sixteen, eighteen,
twenty, twenty two and twenty four containing each one thousand acres making in
the whole eleven thousand which said several lots of land above mentioned were
conveyed to the said John Stites the ninth day of January 1794 by Elias Bondinot
Esquire and Hannah his wife reference being had to the said Patent or Record
thereof in the Secretary’s Office will fully appear as also the said
conveyance Together with all and singular the appurtenances privileges
and advantages whatsoever appertaining or belonging; And the reversion and reversions remainder and remainders
rents issues and profits thereof; And
also all the estate right title interest property claim and demand whatsoever as
well in law as in equity of the said John Stites of in and to the same or any
part or parcel thereof with the appurtenances To have and to hold all and singular the said premises
above mentioned and intended to be hereby granted and released with the
hereditaments and appurtenances thereto belonging unto the said John Innes
Clarke and John B. Murray their
heirs and assigns to the only proper use and behoof of the said John Innes
Clarke and John B. Murray their
heirs and assigns forever subject nevertheless to reservations and restrictions
in the Patent contained and the said John Stites for himself his heirs executors
and administrators doth covenant promise grant and agree to and with the said
John Innes Clarke and John B.
Murray their heirs and assigns that he the said John Stites at the time of
ensealing and delivery of these presents is lawfully seized in his own right of
in and to the aforesaid described premises hereby granted and conveyed with the
appurtenances as of a good sure perfect absolute and indefeasible estate of
inheritance in the law in fee simple without any manner of condition to alter
change determine or defeat the same and hath in himself good right full power
and lawful authority to grant bargain sell convey and release the above said
described land and premises with the appurtenances unto the said John Innes
Clarke and John B. Murray their
heirs and assigns in manner aforesaid And also that the said John Innes Clarke and John
B. Murray their heirs and assigns shall and may from time to time and at
all times hereafter peaceably and quietly have hold occupy posses and enjoy the
said hereby granted and bargained premises with the appurtenances, without any
suit trouble molestation or interruption whatsoever of the said John Stites or
his heirs or assigns or of any person or persons having or lawfully claiming or
to claim any estate right title interest of in or to the same or any part or
parcel thereof, and that free and clear and freely and clearly acquitted
exonerated released and forever discharged of from and against all former and
other gifts grants bargains sales leases releases mortgages dowers rights and
titles of dower and from all other charges, troubles and incumbrances whatsoever
had made committed done or suffered by the said John Stites or by any other
person or persons whatsoever having or lawfully claiming or to claim any estate
right title or interest of in and to the aforesaid described lots of land and
premises And lastly that the said John Stites his heirs the said
lots and premises above mentioned and described and hereby granted and released
and every part and parcel thereof with the appurtenances unto the said John
Innes Clarke and John B. Murray
their heirs and assigns against the said John Stites his heirs and against all
and every other person or persons whomsoever shall and will warrant by these
presents forever defend In witness whereof the parties to these presents have
hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year above written
John Stites Susannah Stites Sealed and delivered in the presence of Then received the consideration of fifteen hundred pounds within mentioned in
full Witnesses
Jas. Abeel, John Viall Be it remembered that on the fourteenth day of August one
thousand seven hundred and ninety four before me John Ray one of the Masters in
Chancery for the State of New York personally appeared John Stites and Susannah
his wife who severally and acknowledged they signed sealed and delivered the
within written Indenture as their voluntary act and deed for the uses and
purposes therein mentioned; and the said Susannah being examined by me privately
and apart from her said husband acknowledged she executed the same without any
fear threat or compulsion of her said husband. And there appeared no material
erasures or interlineations in the said Indenture I do allow the same to be
recorded. John Ray The preceding Indenture was recorded at the request of John Innes Clarke and John B. Murray and is a true copy of the original (page 230 line 10 word “thousand” and line 46 “any” wrote on erasures; line 24 and line 27 of same page word “the” obliterated) Examined and compared therewith this 11th October 1794 By me Lewis A. Scott Secretary |