Name/Title
IndentureEntry/Object ID
JJA.1939.23Description
This a handwritten indenture signed by John J. Audubon and Lucy Audubon to Ingram. Transcription is as follows:
"Audubon & Wife to Ingram
Deed 1818, Jan. 31st.
ackd. by Lucy Audubon & Dower relinquished Secund. for Stat. June 2nd. Ackd. by John J. Audubon. Recorded & Examd. lib. - vol. 576
This Indenture made the 31st. day of January in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen between John J. Audubon and Lucy his wife of the one part and Wiatt H. Ingram of the other part both parties of the Town of Henderson and State of Kentucky. Witnesseth that the said John J. Audubon and Lucy his wife for and in consideration of the sum of Eighty Dollars Current money by the said Wiatt H. to the said John J. paid or secured to be paid at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have bargained, sold, aliened, enfeaffed, conveyed and conferred and by these presents do bargain, sell, alien, enfeaff, convey and confirm unto the said, Wiatt H. Ingram his Heirs and assigns forever all that fraction or part of Lot Number ninety five lying and being in the Town of Henderson Beginning on the line of an Alley ten feet wide laid off by the said John J. Audubon on the line between Lot Number ninety five and ninety six taking five feet from each of said Lots One hundred and twenty feet from the upper Corner of said Alley on ________ m cross street and lower Corner of a fraction of said Lot sold to David Nagley, running thence with Nagley's line south 71 East Sixty three feet nine inches to a Post in Nagley's line, thence with his line south 19 West Seventy feet to the line of an Alley Eighteen feet nine and a quarter inches, wide laid off by the said John J. Audubon on the line between Lots Number 93, 94,95 and 96 taking the said alley off of Lots Number 95 and 96 from back Street on the road Way to Elm Street, thence with the line of said Alley North 71 West Sixty three feet nine inches to the lower Corner of the Alley first mentioned and thence up the said Alley North 19 East Seventy feet to the Beginning together with the rights, privileges and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining and all the Estate either in Law or Equity right, title, interest and claim or helm the said John J. Audubon and Lucy his wife of in and to the premises. To Have and to Hold the fraction or part of Lot Number ninety five hereby bargained and Sold together with the right, privileges, and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise apertaining and all the Estate either in Law or Eqity right title interest and claim of them the John J. Audubon and Lucy his wife of in and to the premises to the said Wiatt H. Ingram his Heirs and assigns forever, to his and their only use, benefit and behoof forever; And the said John J. Audubon for himself his Heirs, Executors and Administrators doth Covenant, Grant, and agree to and with the said Wiatt H. Ingram his Heirs, Executors, administrators and assigns that he is seized of a grad sure and perfect Estate of inheritance in fee simple in the fraction or part of the Lot hereby bargained and Sold and that he has legal and Equitable right and authority to sell and convey the same and that he will and shall warrant and defend the same against the right title Interest and claim in Law or Equity of all and every person or persons whatsoever. In Testimony whereof the said John J. Audubon and Lucy his wife have hereunto set their hands and affixed their Seals the day and year first above written. (signed) John J. Audubon, Lucy Audubon
Henderson County - This Deed of Bargain and Sale was presented to me in my office the 31st. day of January 1818 and acknowledged by Lucy Audubon and on the 2nd. day of June 1818 this Deed was acknowledged by John J. Audubon to be his and her hand and Seal act and Deed and the said Lucy Audubon separate and apart from her Husband freely and voluntarily relinquished her right of Dower in the Lot of Land Conveyed, this Deed being first shewn and explained to her and consented that this Deed should be Recorded. Whereupon this Deed is admitted to Record. Teste. A. Barbour"Collection
William McClure CollectionMade/Created
Manufacturer
John James Audubon and Lucy and IngramDate made
1818 - 1818Notes
Date: January 31, 1818Lexicon
Search Terms
Document Types, Indentures, Deeds, Henderson (Ky.), Henderson County (Ky.), KentuckyDimensions
Height
12-5/16 inWidth
7-11/16 in