Dorothea Ridgway To Margaret R. Read and Eliza H. Read
New Jersey Deeds
Deed Book C 3 page 460-461
FHL# 084228
(The binding on the right side of page 460 is tight and some of the words are cut off or missing. I kept the original line breaks. In parentheses and italics are the words that are cut off, some I interpreted and some I could not.)
Dorothea Ridgway } This indenture made this fifth day of Ap(ril) To } in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hund Margaret R. Read and Eliza Read } red and thirty one Between Dorothea Ridgway of Mount Holly in the county of Burlington and State of New Jersey the one part and Margaret R. Read & Eliza H. Read of the same (place) of the other part Witnesseth that the said Dorothea Ridgway for (and) in consideration of the sum of twenty Dollars to her in hand paid (???) the said Margaret R. Read & Eliza H. Read at and before the perfect (???) hereof the receipt wherefore is hereby acknowledged Hath granted bargained, sold, aliened, released, conveyed and confirmed, and (to) these presents for herself & her heirs doth absolutely, grant, bargain (???) alien, release, convey and confirm unto the said Margaret R Read (and) Eliza H Read their heirs and assigns forever due equal undivided third part of all those certain messuage, tenement and lot of land (situ-) -ate on the southwardly side of New Street in Mount holly aforesaid (???) bounded on the east by land belonging to the estate of George (???) Dec’d and on the west by land of John Dobbins measuring in from (???) on said New Street thirty feet more or less let the contents of the sai(d) lot be what it may more or less which said lot is the same that was (???) conveyed unto the said Dorothea Ridgway Margaret R Read and Eliza H Read by Charles Read & Nancy B his wife as will appear (a??) large by referring to the indenture bearing date the 25th Day of Nov(ember) 1830 recorded in the Clerk’s office of the County of Burlington in B(ook) B 3 of Deeds p 466 (??) Together with all and singular the build(ings) fences, trees, ways waters, water courses, mines, minerals right privil(eges) hereditaments and appurtenances to the said granted & barg(ained) premises belonging or of right appertaining and all the estate right, title, interest, use possession property claim, and demand (what) soever in law or equity of the said Dorothea Ridgway & (???) therein and thereof with the revertions, remainders, rents, issues, profits thereof To have and to hold the said equal undivided third part of the said lot of land with the appurtenances and the said Margaret R Read and Eliza H Read their heirs & assign(ns) as tenants in Common To the only proper use benefit and beho(of) of them the said Margaret R Read & Eliza H Read their heirs and assigns forever In Witness whereof the said Dorothea Ridg way hath hereunto set her hand & seal the day & year first (???) in written Signed sealed & delivered in the presence of } Dorothea Ridgway {seal} Daniel Wills George Y Morehouse } Burlington County State of New Jersey to coit be it remem bered that on the eleventh Day of April A D eighteen hundred and thirty one personally appeared before me the subscriber a com missioner appointed to take this acknowledgments & prop(???) deeds & in and for the said county Dorothea Ridgway who I am satisfied is the grantor in the above written deed of conveyance named to whom I first made known the contents thereof and who acknowledged that she signed, sealed & delivered the said (deed) of conveyance as her voluntary act and deed for the uses and pur poses therein mentioned. |