William Woolman, Sheriff,
to Samuel Read Esq
Land Belonging to Delaplaine Ridgway
Property of Delalaine Ridgway in Mount Holly
New Jerssey Deed Book V 2 pages 630 - 633
FHL# 0842224
Written: 16 Nov 1811
Recorded: 7 March 1812
What is in bracketts [ ] is what I think should go there
New Jerssey Deed Book V 2 pages 630 - 633
FHL# 0842224
Written: 16 Nov 1811
Recorded: 7 March 1812
What is in bracketts [ ] is what I think should go there
page 630
This Indenture made the sixteenth day [of] November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven BetweenWilliam Woolman [shf] of the county of Burlington in the state of New Jersey of the one part And Samuel J Read Esqr of the township of Northampton in the county and state aforesaid of the other part Whereas Thomas S Ridgway in the inferior court of common pleas in & for the county of Burlington in the term of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & eleven did recover a judgement against Delaplaine Ridgway for the sum of one thousand Dollars and also the sum of three dollars for his costs which he sustained by occasion of the detention of that Debt And whereas a certain writ called a Fieri Facias issued out of the Court aforesaid to the sd William Woolman Sheriff as aforesaid directed & delivered whereby he was commanded that of the goods and chattel lands and tenements of the sd Delaplaine Ridgway in his Bailiwick he sould enuse to be made the aforesd debt & costs and that he should have the aforesaid monies before the Judges of the said court to render unto the sd [Thomas] S Ridgway for his debt & costs aforesaid as by reference [of?] the minutes of the court of common pleas aforesaid will appear And whereas John Dorsey having recovered a judgement in the inferior Court of common pleas aforesaid against the sd Delaplaine Ridgway for the sum of three hundred and forty [?] dollars & eighty five cents of debt, and also the sum of [three?] dollars for his costs and damage occasioned by the [detention?] of the debt And whereas in the term of August in the year a writ of Fieri Facias issued out of the court aforesaid [?] the judgeament aforesaid to the sd Willliam Woolman sheriff aforesaid directed & delivered whereby he was commanded of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of the sd [Delaplaine] Ridgway in his Bailiwick he should cause to be made [?] aforesaid debt and costs and that he should have the [aforsaid] |
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[monies?] before the judges of the court aforesaid to render unto the sd John Dorsey for his debt & costs aforesaid as by reference to the minutes of the Court aforesaid will appear And the sd William Woolman sheriff as aforesaid by virtue of the aforesaid writ of execution did seize all the following described lots and parcels of land situate in Mountholly in the county of Burlington aforesaid and to the end that a sale of the said lands should be made persuant to the acts of the Legislature in such case made & provided the sd William sheriff as aforesaid, by advertisements signed by himself & put up at five or more public places in the sd county and whereof was in the township of Northampton at least two months before the time appointed for selling the same, and also published in the Trenton Federalist one of the news papers printed in this state and circilating most generally in the neighbourhoods of the sd lands at least two months [next?] preceding the time did give [notice?] of the time & place where the said lands would be exposed to [sale] and the sd William Woolman sheriff as aforesaid at the time and place so apponited that is to say on the second day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven Between the hour of twelve and five in the afternoon of sd day at the house of the sd Delaplaine Ridgway did expose the sd lands to sale by public vendue and out [cry?] and the sd Samll J Read bidding for the same the of five hundred Dollars and twelve cents, and being the highest bidder the sd lands with the appentenances were then & there struck off and sold to the sd Samuel J Read for the sum of five hundred dollar & twelve cents Now this Indenture witnesseth that the sd William Woolman sheriff as aforesaid, by virtue of the sd Executions and considerations of the sum of five hundred dollars & twelve cents lawful money of the united states to him paid the receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge Hath granted bargained sold and assigned, and by these persents doth grant, bargain, sell & assign unto the sd Samuel J Read and to his heirs and assigns. All Those then following described lots or parcels of ground situated on the westerly side of High street in Mountholly, in the township of Northampton aforesaid, the first is bounded as follows viz -- Beginning at the corner of Aquilla Shinns now William Atkinson land which is also Beginning to Joseph Read purchased at the same time from Shuff and wife, and runs along said Atkinson and Andrew Davis lots north eighty two degree west seven |
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chains and ten links to a stake at or near a large Black [?] then along lot no 3 belonging to Joseph Read, North two [degrees] east eight chains and thirty six links to a stake in the [use?] sd [?] a twelve feet lane corner to lot Number four now belong to Samuel J Read then along his line North eighty eight [degrees] East seven chains and ten links to a stone for a coner then [along] Joseph Read's line south two degrees west nine chains & [thirty?] six links to the place of Beginning Containing six acres & two perches of land strict measure and was purchased by sd Delapl* Ridgway, of the Executor of John Ross deceased the second [lot?] is bounded as follows Beginning at a stone on the westerly side of High street corner to Job Bishop's land and runs thence up High street {variations allowed of this time} North twenty four degrees one hundred and forty feet more of less, to the corner of land [deeded?] by Nathaniel Cripps in and by his last will and testament, [on?] record, in number five of wills p 300 & in the secretary's office of Trenton, unto Cristopher, John Jacob & Joseph Powell, his Grandsons the sons of his the Testators Daughter Virgin Powell which lots were heretofore conveyed by the said Devises [pol?] and William Jones unto John Monrow Esq the whole said to [contain] a front of six chains on High street, and to extend the same width backwards seven chains and they were [afterward] devised by the testament and last will of the sd John Monrow Esquire to his Daughter Sarah Budd in fee, thence [extend] from Sarah Budd lower coner on the street above the [?] gatepost of a certain alley at a right angle with the street seven chains more of less to the line of Samuel J Read's a little above an apple tree there now standing, growing & [?] then across the alley and along the line of Joseph Reads lot, parchell within High Street, one hundred and forty feet more or [less] to Job Bishop's line near a Hickory saplin then along sd [line] at right angle with the street, seven chains more of less [containing] one acre, one rood & thirty seven perches of land, be it more [or] less. The third lot is bounded as follows, viz: Beginning at [a] stone on the west side of High street in Mountholly aforesaid being corner to a lot of land formerly Jacob Clouts now the [sd] Delaplaine Ridgways and runs [sw?] by the sd lot south [for?] five degrees & thirty minutes west seven chains to a stone [?] a corner in the line of Joseph Read Esquire's land, thence the same south twenty three degrees East one chain & eighty in margin *by deed dated the 29th of Nov 1805 |
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[links?] to a stone corner to said Read by whom it runs north sixty five degrees & thrity minutes East, seven chains to the great road or street aforesaid by which it is bounded North twenty three degrees west one chain and eighty seven links to the place of Beginning Containing one acre & one rood of land be the same more or less. and was conveyed to the said Delaplaine Ridgway by Job Bishop & Hannah his wife by deed dated the thirteenth day of october in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & ten The second lot was purchased of Grace Shuff by deed dated the third day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & seven and is recorded in the Clerk's office of the county of Burlington in book S of deeds page 90 & Together with all and singular the advantages profits buildings and improvements whatsoever in, & to the three lots & parcels of land belonging or in any wise appertaining and also all the estate, right, title, interest & claim of the sd Dillaplain Ridgway in and to the sd premises or any part thereof either at law - or in equity To Have & to Hold and singular the above discribed three lots or parcel of land with their [own?] every of their appurtanences as fully as the same was held and possessed by the said Dellaplaine Ridgway and not otherwise unto the sd Samuel J Read his heirs and assigns to the only proper use, benefit & behoof of the said Samuel J Read his heir and assigns forever subject nevertheless to all prior legal incumbrances charges damage, conditions Emilitions whatsoever or the same as aforesaid In witness wherof the sd William Woolman sherriff as aforesd hath hereunto set his hand & seal dated the day and year first above written 1811 Sealed & Delivered } in the presence of } William Woolman {his seal} Robt Walton } recd upon the execution hereof from the sd Samll J Read the full consideration within mentioned John Blackwood } William Woolman Be it remembered that on the sixth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve, personnelly appeared before me the subscriber one of the judges of the inferior court of common pleas in & for the county of Burlington the within named William Woolman shf of the county of Burlington, and acknowledged that he signed - sealed and delivered the within deed of conveyance for the uses & purposes therein mentioned John Blackwood Recorded March 7 1812 J E Hvaine ck |