Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER V 1728 G
OBJECT NAME Land Lease / Articles of Agreement Draft
DATE July 20, 1831
AUTHOR Philip Van Cortlandt (I)
RECIPIENT none
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE
PLACES Camp Meeting Ground, Croton
KEYWORDS not used (contains blank spaces and note), blank contract for
leasing “camp meeting ground” to Methodist ministers, providing
for constraints on tents, meals, selling produce, disrupting existing neighborhood, cleaning site after use, etc.
Article of Agrement made Between Philip / Van Cortlandt of the Town of Cortlandt Esq’r of the / first part and
If the second part, Witnefseth that the said party of the first part hereby Lease unto the said parties / of the second part for the purpose of holding a Religious / camp meeting and for no other purpose = all / that inclosed piece of woodland as the Fences now are Standing where former camp meetings have been held - to commence on the / Day of September and continue untill / the both days Included = when the Fences / are to be well repaired and the ground to be / cleaned and left in food Order, as no Waste is to be / committed by them or suffered to be done by any others - and that no Tent shall be suffered on the / ground for the purpose of selling provisions or / otherwise Excepting to those persons unprovided belonging to their society or Friends who have ac= / =companied these for the purpose of attending the / the meeting who take their regular meal, in Such / Tent - and as the Laws of [^the] State of New York is their / protection they are to keep order in their camp / but not to prevent the peasible inhabitants of / the neighbuorhood from Selling any kind of pro= =visions Fruit or Vegetables of any difcription or vicutaling persons in their dwelling Houses or inclosed / buildings = [^ x] in their possession = and to pay to the party of the first part - one Dollar for the Rent / if demanded + and also to mine or his order what= ever damage he may suffer relative to the above / Premises = and the said parties of the second part / do hereby bind themselves Jointly and Severally / to perform all the contracts above mentioned / given under our hand and Seals the
Day of in the year 1831 –
Sealed and Delivered
In duplicate in the
Presence of —---
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[LABEL]
July - 20 – 1831
Lease Intended to
Have been given
But was not __
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Camp MeetingTranscriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
