Name/Title
April 1, 1852 Will of Silas Youngs, Blooming Grove, NYEntry/Object ID
001019Tags
Silas Youngs, Hiram Tuthill, Elijah M Smith, James YoungsScope and Content
Lease Agreement (1852)
An article of an agreement made this first day of the fourth month in the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty two Between James Youngs, Hiram Tuthill and Stephen A. Bull Executors of the last Will and Testament of Silas Youngs deceased late of the Town of Bloominggrove of the first part and Elijah N. Smith of the said Town of Blooming Grove of the second part.
Witnesseth that the said Executors of the first part Do agree to let unto the said Elijah N. Smith the house and lot conveyed to him by Mary Ann Tuthill before her marriage with William Barton lying on the South side of the Rail Road and now occupied by the said Elijah N. Smith and also the lands set apart for Martha the deceased wife of the said E. N. Smith and Mary Ann Barton Widow of Wm Barton deceased by direction of the said Will of Silas Youngs deceased lying on the North of the Rail Road (except the depot lot, the lot sold to D. Gaunt, the lot rented to Henry Clark, the lot set apart for Sarah Ann Tuthill during her life by her father Abimel Youngs, and also the lot where the gravel has been taken off by the Rail Road Company some years back) for the term of one year from the date hereof the said Executors Reserving to themselves the Right and privedge of Selling to the Rail Company as much of the gravel bank as in their Judgment they may think best which gravel bank is not intended to be rented to the said Elijah N. Smith.
The Remainder of the said lands, the said E. N. Smith is to have the use and control of for the said term of one year for and in consideration of the sum of forty five Dollars. The said E. N. Smith to pay all Taxes, keep the fences in repair and is not to suffer any manure to be removed from the farm but to draw all the manure where said executors may direct and in case the said E. N. Smith shall neglect or refuse to perform any of the above mentioned considerations then this agreement to be at an end and the Executors to have the Immediate possession of said premises.
In witness whereof the parties have hereunto set their Names.
James Youngs
Stephen A Bull
E. N. Smith