INDENTURE BETWEEN GULIAN AND CORNELIA VERPLANK AND NATHANIEL SACKET
Entry/Object ID
HHV 004.200
Description
Handwritten document on vellum; wavy indentured top of page; recto has text of indenture from “twentieth day of March in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred & ninety five:” text fills entire page with signatures and seals on upward folded bottom section (measuring 1 ¾” wide) of the page; two signatures, “Gulian Verplanck” and “Cornelia Verplank;”two seals; sections of five pieces of woven linen lawyers' red tape threaded through paper to hold down the fold visible although two are covered by the seals; Verso contains text of witness, signed by “John Ray,” in upper right hand section:
Text begins
“Be it remembered that on the twenty first day / of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety / five before me, John Ray, on e of the Masters in / Chancery for the State of New York personally / appeared Gulian Verplanck and Cornelia his wife / whose severally acknowledge they signed sealed and delivered / the within written Indenture as their / voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes / therein mentioned; and the said Cornelia being / examined by me privately and apart from her / said husband acknowledged she executed the / said Indenture without any fear threat or com - / -pulsion of her said husband. And there not / appearing any material erasures or interlineations / in the said Indenture I do allow the same to / be recorded / John Ray;” “Sealed and delivered in the / prescene of / Elizabeth Burnet / John Ray” in upper left section of page; “Gulian Verplank and / Cornelia (illegible word) / Nicholas Sackett / Deed” to right of center top;
“A.D. 1795” in pencil at right of center top.
Made/Created
Date made
Mar 20, 1795
Other Names and Numbers
Other Numbers
Number Type
Former Number
Other Number
PM.2013.5
Dimensions
Dimension Description
Overall
Height
12 in
Width
22-3/8 in
Dimension Notes
Display Dimensions: 12 x 22 3/8 in. (30.5 x 56.8 cm)
Material
Parchment, ink, sealing wax, woven linen tape
Condition
Notes
Remarks: Foxing, surface dirt, small corner fold at bottom left of Recto; staining on top and bottom edges and on folds; small hole near bottom right of center
General Notes
Note Type
StorageNote
Note
Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Union Church