Item 42: Deed Sale by Thomas and Richard Penn to Thomas Sheward, (Removed to Grey Print Box #4) , 1739 October 2

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Deed Sale by Thomas and Richard Penn to Thomas Sheward, (Removed to Grey Print Box #4) , 1739 October 2

Dates

Created: 1739 October 2

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Extent

1 items

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Type of Material:

Land Deed

General Condition:

Good.

Measurements:

14 ¾ in. x 20 ⅜ in.

Description:

The following item depicts a land deed by Thomas and Richard Penn are selling two tracts of land in west Bradford Township, under land office warrants dated October 2, 1739 and March 12, 1743, originally surveyed to Francis Way, to Thomas Sheward, for the sum of Fifteen pounds and nineteen shillings, The land contains 103 acres with the usual six percent allowance for public roads and other necessities of the township. The boundaries of the lot are described in detail with directional coordinates configured during the field survey, and the language of the deed stipulates that all rights, profits, and uses of the land are effectively transferred from Richard and Thomas Penn to Thomas Sheward and his heirs or assigns, with protections against any future claim for the same lands. The deed is recorded on September 6, 1751 by C. Brockden and patent witnessed by James Hamilton.

Location:

Bradford, Chester County, Pennsylvania

Transcription Attempt:

Thomas Penn and Richard Penn esquires true and absolute proprietarus and governors in Chief of the Province of Pennsylvania and Counties of newcastle Kent and Sussex on Delaware To all unto whom these presents shall come Greetings Whereas by vertue (sic) [virtue] of two Warrants under the Seal of the Land Office one bearing Date the second Day of October one thousand and seven hundred and thirty nine and the other dated the twelfth Day of march one thousand seven hundred and forty three there was surveyed to one Francis Way a certain tract of land situate in West Bradford Township in the County of Chester Under certain Conditions in the said Warrants mentioned which conditions not having been complied with by the said Francis Way the said Warrants and Survey made in Pursuance thereof are become utterly void as in and by the said Warrants remaining in our Surveyor General’s Office Relation being thereunto had does manifestly appear And Whereas afterwards in and by a Warrant under the Seal of the Land Office bearing Date the eighth Day of April last past Upon Application made to us by Thomas Sheward of the said County of Chester Our Surveyor General was required to accept and receive into his Office the Survey of the said Tract of Land and to make return thereof into the Secretaries Office for the use and Behoof of the said Thomas Sheward which Survey being accordingly accepted by our Surveyor General and by him duly returned into the Secretaries Office the metes and Bounds of the same are set forth and described as follow virt Beginning at a marked Black Oak and from thence extending by Land late of James Sheward East North East two hundred Porches to a Post htence by James Hastings’s Land and vacant Land North North West thirty Perches to a marked White Oak thence by vacant Land West South West sixty perches to a marked White Oak NOrth North West twenty two Perches to a marked white oak West one hundred and thirty four Perches to a marked Chesnut Tree South fifty eight Degrees West nineteen Perches to a marked Spanish Oak and South seventy six Degrees West seventy eight Perches to a Post thence by Robert Thornton’s Land South thirty five Degrees East Thirty two Perches to a marked White Oak South twenty Degrees East twenty Perches to a marked White Oak and East eighty Perches to a marked Chesnut Oak thence by the said Robert Thornton’s Land and a line of marked trees South South East thirty Perches to the Place of Beginning containing one hundred and three acres and the usual allowance of Six acres per cent for Roads and highways as in and by the Survey thereof remaining in our Surveyor General’s Office and from thence certified into the Secretaries Office may appear Now at the Instance and Request of the said Thomas Sheward that We would be pleased to grant him a confirmation of the same Know Ye that in Consideration of the Sum of Fifteen Pounds nineteen shillings and nine pence Lawful money of Pennsylvania to our use paid by the said Thomas Sheward (The receipt whereof we hereby acknowledge and thereof do acquit and forever discharge the said Thomas Sheward his Heirs and Assigns by these presents) And of the yearly lust rent herein after mentioned and reserved We have given granted released and confirmed and by these presents for us our Heirs and successors do give grant release and confirm unto the said Thomas Sheward his Heirs and assigns the said one hundred and three acres of land as the same are now set forth bounded and limited as aforesaid With all mines minerals quarries meadows marshes savannahs swamps cripples woods underwoods timber and trees ways waters water courses liberties profits commodities advantages hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging or in any wise appearing and lying within the bounds and limits aforesaid (Three full and clear fifth parts of all royal mines free from all deductions and Reprisals for digging and refining the same and also one fifth Part of the ore of all other mines delivered at the pitsmouth only accepted and hereby reserved) And also free Leave Right and Liberty to and for the said Thomas Shward his Heirs and Assigns to hawk hunt fish and fowl in and upon the hereby granted Land and premises or upon any Part thereof + To have and to hold the said one hundred and three acres of land and premises hereby granted (except as before excepted) with their appurtenances unto the said Thomas Sheward his heirs and assigns to the only use and behoof of the said Thomas Sheward his Heirs and Assigns forever To be Holden of Us our Heirs and Successors Proprietaries of Pennsylvania as of our Manor of Springton in the County of Chester aforesaid in free and common socage by healthy only in lieu of all other Services Yielding and paying therefore yearly unto us our Heirs and Successors at the Town of Chester in the said County at or upon the first day of March in every year from the First Day of March last One Half penny sterling for every acre of the same or value thereof in Coin Currant according as the Exchange shall then be between our said Province and the city of London to such Person or Persons as shall from time to time be appointed to receive the same And in case of nonpayment thereof within ninety Days next after the same shall become due that then it shall and may be lawful for Us our Heirs and successors our and their receiver or receivers into and upon the hereby granted land and premises to reenter and the same to hold and possess untill the said suit rent and all arrears thereof together with the charges accruing by means of such nonpayment and Reentry be fully paid and discharged Witness James Hamilton Esquire Lieutenant Governor of the said Province who, by Vertue of certain Powers and Authorities to him for this Purpose, inter alia, granted by the said Proprietaries, hath hereunto set his Hand and caused the Great Seal of the said Province to be hereunto affixed at Philadelphia this Twelfth Day of August in the year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Fifty One the twenty fifth year of the Reign of King George the second over Great Britain +ca [etcetera] And the Thirty Fourth Year of the said Proprietaries Government.

Back:

Entred in the Office for Recording of Deeds for the City and County of Philadelphia in Patent Book A. Vol 17 Page g+ca [etcetera] the Sixth day of Sept Ano Dom 1751 Witness my hand and seal of my office CBrockden

Patent to Thomas Sheward for 103 Acres in Chester County

James Hamilton