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Deed – Secretary of State, New York. Deed Book 26, pgs 105 – 106 John Stites & wife Susannah This Indenture made the sixteenth day of July in the year
of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety three and the eighteenth of
our Independence between John Stites of Elizabeth Town in the State of New
Jersey Merchant and Susannah his wife of the first part and Henry Ten Brook of
the City of New York Merchant of
the second part Witnesseth that the said parties of the first part for and
in consideration of the sum of one thousand and seventy nine
pounds thirteen shillings and four pence current money of the State of
New York to him in hand paid by the said party of the second part the receipt
whereof is hereby acknowledged have granted bargained sold remised released
aliened and confirmed by these presents do grant bargain sell remise release
aline and confirm unto the said party of the second All those certain fourteen
lotts, pieces or parcels of lands situate and being in the Eleventh Township one
of the twenty Townships laid out on the west side of the Unadilla River in the
County of Tioga and State of New York and disposed of by the Commissioners of
the Land Office to L.M. Cutting Esq. and by him to the grantor, being known and
distinguished on the Map thereof filed in the Secretary’s Office by the
Surveyor General of the State of New York by Lots numbers fifty four, fifty
five, fifty six, fifty seven, eighty seven, eighty eight, ninety two, ninety
three, ninety four, ninety five, ninety six, ninety seven, ninety eight, ninety
nine and one hundred and half of lot number eighty nine; the said fourteen
and one half lots containing three thousand seven hundred and seventy
five acres more or less Together with all and singular the rights, members and
appurtenances thereof and all profits, commodities and advantages emoluments and
hereditaments whatsoever to the said premises hereby granted belonging or in any
wise appertaining And also the reversion and reversions, remainder and
remainders, rents and services of all and singular the said premises hereby
granted and of every part and parcel thereof with the appurtenances And also all
the estate, right, title, interest, claim and demand whatsoever both in law and
equity of the said John Stites and Susannah his wife of in and to all and
singular the said premises hereby granted and of in and to every part and parcel
thereof with the appurtenances To have and to hold all the said hereditaments and premises
hereby granted and every part and parcel thereof with the appurtenances unto the
said Henry Ten Brook his heirs and assigns to the only proper use and behoof of
the said Henry Ten Brook his heirs and assigns forever And the said John Stites
for himself and his heirs executors and administrators to covenant promise grant
and agree to and with the said Henry Ten Brook his heirs and assigns that he the
said John Stites and his heirs the said lotts, pieces or parcels of land above
described and hereby granted and conveyed and every part and parcel thereof with
the appurtenances unto the said Henry Ten Brook his heirs and assigns against
him the said John Stites his heirs and assigns for all and every other person or
persons lawfully claiming by or under him shall and will warrant and 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
Mary Smith, John Stites jnr. Be it remembered that on the twenty third day of September
in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety three 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 appearing no material erasures or interlineations in the said Indenture I
do allow the same to be recorded. The preceding Indenture was recorded at the request of
Henry Ten Brook therein named and is a true copy of the original (words in
2nd line obliterated) compared therewith this 8th day of
July 1794 |