Transcription
CATALOG NUMBER S 976
OBJECT NAME Covenant/Land Lease
DATE March 8, 1806
AUTHOR Philip Jeremiah Schuyler on behalf of the estate of General Philip John Schuyler
RECIPIENT John Lansing, Jr.
MEDIUM Paper, ink
PEOPLE William McGill, Philip Jeremiah Schuyler, Rensselaer Schuyler,
John B Church and Stephen Van Rensselaer, Philip P. Schuyler,
Jacob Evertson (also ‘Evertsen”) Jr.,
PLACES Albany, first ward, “great Pasture”, lots, Lot No. 6, Court Street,
Westerlo Street, Church Street, Lot No. 5, Hudson River,
Pastures Historic District, Albany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastures_Historic_District
KEYWORDS deed from Mayor, wharf, dockage, Reformed Dutch Protestant
Church
To all whom these presents shall come / I John Lansing Junior of the City and County / of Albany send Greeting: Whereas Philip / J Schuyler, Renfselaer Schuyler, John B / Church and Stephen Van Renfselaer Exec- / utors of the last Will and Testament of / Philip Schuyler deceased by Indenture ≁≁ / bearing date herewith in Consideration of / the sum of One thousand five hundred and / thirty Dollars have granted, bargained, sold / and conveyed unto me the said John ≁≁ / Lansing Junior, my heirs and Afsigns forever / All that certain lot of ground situate lying / and being in the City of Albany in the first / Ward of said City being part of that piece / of ground called the great pasture, known ≁ / and distinguished in a Map thereof made / as lot Number six bounded on the South by / lot Number five, On the West by Court Street / on the North by Westerlo Street, and on the East / by Hudson's River Subject to a Yearly Rent of / One pound ten Shillings of lawful Money of / the State of New York to be paid on the fifth / day of September in
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each year, reserved in and by a lease of the same lot, from the ≁≁ Minister, Elders and Deacons of [ ^the] Reformed / Protestant Dutch Church in the City of / Albany to the said Philip Schuyler bearing / date the twenty ninth day of September One / thousand eight hundred and three and to the Covenants and Conditions in the ≁ / said lease Contained as on Reference to the / said lease may at large appear. And also in / the right privileges and franchises of dockage / and wharfage in the port and harbour of the / City aforesaid, opposite to and adjoining the / before described lot of ground and the South half part / of the said Westerlo Street subject to the exemptions ≁ / reservations and covenants contained in a Deed / from the Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of / the City of Albany to the said Philip Schuyler ≁ / bearing date the twenty ninth day of September One / thousand seven hundred and Ninety three convey- =ing the said Right of Dockage and Wharfage as on / reference to the said Deed may fully appear I do / therefore for myself, my Heirs, Executors and Ad- / ministrators, covenant with the said Philip J / Schuyler, Renfselaer Schuyler, John B Church / and Stephen Van Renfselaer and the survivor / of them And the Executors and Administrators / of such Survivor, that I my Heirs or Afsigns shall / and will pay the Rent reserved and which _ / shall hereafter fall due upon the above recited /
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lease and observe perform and keep the Covenants / and Conditions therein Contained and also the / Covenants contained in the said Deed from the / Mayor Alderman and Commonalty of the / City of Albany to the said Philip Schuyler, on / the part of the said Philip Schuyler his Heirs / Executors Administrators or Afsigns to be paid ≁ / kept and performed and shall and will ≁/ Indemnify the Heirs Devisees Executors and Admin- / istrators of the said Philip Schuyler and their / goods and Chattels, lands and tenements from / all damages, Costs and Charges which they or any / of them may sustain or be put to for or by means / of any delay or failure in the payment of the Rent / aforesaid or the non performance or breach of any of / the said Covenants and Conditions. In witness / whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal / this eighth day of March One thousand and eight / hundred and six.
Sealed and Delivered }
in the presence of } John Lansing Junr
Phi. P. Schuyler
Jacob Evertsen Junr
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John Lansing Jun’r
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The Hiers, Devisees, Ec’r +c
Of Philip Schuyler
≁Transcriber
Kathryn AlexanderLanguage
English
