John McGarrah, Jesse Weeks & Hudson McFarland to Daniel Bull April & May 1829
Entry/Object ID
001918
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John McGarrah, Hudson McFarland, Daniel Bull
Scope and Content
This Indenture made the twenty third day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty nine Between John McGarrah Jesse Weeks and Hudson McFarland of the County of Orange and State of New York of the first part and Daniel Bull — of the Town of Blooming Grove in the County and State aforesaid of the second part - Whereas at a Court of Equity held at New Burgh in and for the second circuit of the State of New York on the third day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight the said John McGarrah Jesse Weeks and Hudson McFarland were by a Decree of said Court in a certain cause then depending in said Court between Noah Gregory Complain- ant and Magdalen Gregory Joseph Stevens and Catharine his Wife Benjamin Gregory Hyram Gregory Sylvester Gregory James Gregory George Gregory Hannah Gregory Samuel Elmer Gregory and John Gregory defendants appointed Commissioners to admeasure and sett off to the said Magdalen Gregory her dower in the premises mentioned and set forth in the pleadings in said cause and to make partition of the said premises among the complainants Noah Gregory and the defendants Joseph Stevens and Catharine his Wife Benjamin Gregory Hyram Gregory Sylvester Gregory James Gregory George Gregory Hannah Gregory Samuel Elmer Gregory and John Gregory according to their respective rights in and by said Decree particularly adjudicated - And Whereas said John McGarrah Jesse Weeks and Hudson McFarland after the said Decree of said Court and after having severally made oath that they would honestly and impartially execute the trusts reposed in them as such Commissioners and for the purposes aforesaid did report to said Court that the lands and premises mentioned and set forth in said pleadings were so circumstanced that a partition thereof could not be made without great prejudice to the owners of the same. Whereupon it was ordered - adjudged and decreed and his Honor the Circuit Judge of the second Circuit in the State of New York did order adjudge and decree that the said lands and premises be sold by the said Commissioners to the highest bidder or bidders at public auction in the county where the premises are situated the said Commissioners first giving notice of the time and place of such sale for the same time and in the manner prescribed by Law in respect to the sales of lands by Sheriffs upon execution And where- as the said commissioners and party of the first part to these presents in pursuance of the order and decree of the said Court of Equity as last above particularly specified did on the twenty eighth day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight sell at public auction at the house formerly owned and occupied by Samuel Gregory deceased and upon the premises mentioned in the pleadings in said suit in the Town of Monroe in Orange County the said premises hereinafter particularly described being a part of the premises mentioned and particularly described and set forth in the pleadings in said cause having first given more than six weeks previous notice of the time and place of such sale with a description of said premises described and set forth in the pleadings in said cause agreeable to the order and Decree last aforesaid at which sale the premises hereinafter described and set forth parcel of the premises mentioned and described in the pleadings in said suit were struck off to the said party of the second to these presents for the sum of one thousand seven hundred and twenty nine dollars and eighty seven and a half cents it being the highest sum bidden for the same. Now therefore this Indenture Witnesseth that the said Commissioners as aforesaid and party of the first part to these presents in order to carry into effect the said sale so made as aforesaid in pursuance of the last mentioned decree of said Court of Equity and also by virtue of the acts of the Legislature of the State of New York in such case made and provided and in consideration of the premises and of the sum of one thousand seven hundred and twenty nine dollars and eighty seven and a half cents paid by the said party of the second part to these presents to the said commissioners as aforesaid the said party of the first part the receipt whereof they do hereby acknowledge Have granted bargained and sold aliened released conveyed and confirmed and by these presents do grant bargain and sell alien release convey and confirm unto the said party of the second part and to his heirs and assigns forever All that certain piece or parcel of land Bounded as follows Beginning at a stake and stones in the line of Samuel Webbs land south of a watering place at the south corner of lands bought by Sylvester Gregory upon the sale of the lands of Samuel Gregory Deceased by John McGarrah Jesse Marks and Hudson McFarland Com- missioners appointed to make partition of said lands among the Heirs of said Samuel Gregory runs thence North forty four degrees west forty six chains and forty links along said Sylvester’s line to a red oak sapling in the line of Benjamin Gregorys Land thence south forty eight degrees West thirteen chains and eighty links to Lewis H Roes Land thence south thirty degrees east ninety links thence south forty eight degrees West ten chains to the piece of Wood land bought by Lewis H Roe upon the sale of said premises thence south twelve degrees east twelve chains to a stake and stones on the north side of the road thence south twenty degrees east four- teen chains to an Iron wood sapling thence south twenty four degrees west fourteen chains to a Rock oak sapling in the line of Alexander McEvoy’s Land thence south forty eight degrees east eleven chains and fifty links to the Mumbatia Pond thence North two degrees East six chains and fifty links thence south eighty eight degrees east five chains thence south forty degrees east one chain and seventy links thence North seventy degrees east four chains thence South fifty degrees east one chain to a Maple Sapling in Webbs line thence north forty degrees east thirty four chains to the place of Beginning containing one hundred and sixty four acres and three quarters of an acre of Land more or less Together with all and singular the rights titles privileges members hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging or in any wise appertaining To Have and to Hold all and singular the said premises above mentioned and described and hereby granted and conveyed or intended so to be unto the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns to the only proper use benefit and behoof of the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns forever. In Witness whereof we the said Commissioners have hereunto set our hands and seals the day and year first above written - Sealed and Delivered } in presence of } John McGarrah [seal] Jesse Woods N.B. Monroe erased [seal] and Blooming Grove interlined and stones I. R. Van Duzer Hudson McFarland [seal] [seal] Orange County ss On the 23d day of April 1829 before me appeared John W McGarrah, Jesse Weeks & Hudson W McFarland to me known who duly acknowledged that they acknowledged the preceding deed for the uses & purposes therein mentioned [Signature] Stephen Jackson a Judge of Ct. Com. Pleas
