Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER V 1728 B
OBJECT NAME Land Lease
DATE September 4, 1826
AUTHOR Philip Van Cortlandt (I)
RECIPIENT
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE Laban Clark, Horace [Horris] Bartlet, Joseph Smith (?!), Peter D.
Noyelles John Le-[ven]-ridge?, William Requa, James Fish
Jonathan Hall, Nathan Anderson
Laban Clark: https://www.wesleyan.edu/libr/sca/FAs/cl1000-87.xml
PLACES Cortlandt Manor (“Cortlandtown”), Croton, “Camp meeting
Ground”,
KEYWORDS camp meeting lease, tents, damages to fences?, Methodist camp meetings,
It is Agreed between Philip Van Cortlandt of the Town of / Cortlandt of the first part and [Labon Cleark] [Horris] _ / Bartlet Joseph Smith Peter D. Noyelles John Le-[ven]-ridge / William Requa James Fish Jonathan Hall and / Nathan Anderson of the Second Part _ Witnefseth / that the said party of the first part hereby Leases / to the parties of the Second part for the term of one / week from the 4th to the 11th both days Included of this / month of Sep’r all that certain piece of Wood Land situate / in the Town of Cortlandt Commonly known as the / Camp Meeting [^ ground] at Croton for the purpose of / holding a Camp Meeting and the parties of the / second part jointly and severally, hereby bind / themselves to pay the said party of the first part / One Dollar if Demanded and to Commit no waste / of timber of any kind on the above premifes and / leave the same or cause it to be done in good order / having the finces gates +c well secured and all persons / to withdraw from the same [^ leaving the straw? on the ground] and to be accoun= / table for all Damages that may be Suftained / in Consequence Whereof the parties have / hereunto set their hands and seals the / 4th of Sep’r 1826 —
Ph. V Cortlandt
Laban Clark
Winefs unto the } Horace Bartlett
Signatures of } Nathan Anderson
Ph VanCortlandt } Joseph Smith
Laban Clark } John Fisher
Horace Bartlet + }
Nathan Anderson by }
Pierre Van Cortlandt }
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[LABEL]
Camp Meeting
Lease - 1826 –
[LATER? - REVERSE]
It is said that no person Sold Priviledges to Persons / to Erect [places] to Sell in but [Da’?n] Lyman [Cash] / & John Conklin suffering their Fences to [^ be] taken / down to Erect their [Tents?] or [Parts] to [Foreners].
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Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
