Item 67b: Photostat Copies of a Deed from Sterling and Frannie E. Saylor and Stephen and Mary S. Abbott to M. C. Mercur, 1864 January 11

Item — Box: 15, Folder: 122b

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Typescript Copies of a Deed from Sterling and Frannie E. Saylor and Stephen and Mary S. Abbott to M[ahlon] C. Mercur, 1864 January 11

Dates

Other: 1864 January 11

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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:

in.

Description:

The following items depict a photostat of a land deed, dated January 11, 1864, for a property in Pittston. The deed contains a survey of the land, and the release of ownership from the sale. This deed is annotated as January 1864 in pencil by another hand, shows a deed between Sterling and Fanny E. Saylor, Sterling Saylor, heir of Samuel Saylor, Mary (Saylor) Abbott, daughter and heir of Samuel Saylor and Mahlon C. Mercur. The deed contains several tracts of land in Pittston township, amounting to 100 acres and 73 perches. The land was bought by Mercur for the sum of $11, 336.33 and ⅓ cents, and contains numerous land survey field notes to again designate the boundaries of the contract and sale. There is an additional page that explains the counsel of Fannie E. Saylor and Mary S. (Saylor) Abbott in selling the land. The contract states that the women were made fully aware of the sale and what it entails, and agreed that their signatures were sworn in full confidence, without compulsion of their husbands. The record was taken January 20, 1864.

Location:

Pittston, PA

Transcription Attempt:

said to the end that the same right be rendered as such according to law Witness my hand and seal the day and year aforesaid John A Conyngham {seal} P. Judge {5 cents}

Luzerne County Ss [sheriff station] At an Orphans Court held at Wilkes Barre for the County of Luzerne on the Eleventh January AD 1864 the sale of the herein before described premise was confirmed by the said court for the price and upon the terms in the report of said sale contained and the above named Alexander Hamilton Stark Guardian of Harriet E and Ann Elizabeth Saylor wives(?) daughters of Samuel Saylor deceased directed by their said Court to acknowledge in open court a deed to M.C. Mercur his heris and assigns for the same and it was considered and adjudged by the said court that the same should be and remain forever firm and stable unto the said M.C. Mercur the grantee named his heirs and the assigns forever certified under my hand and the seal of the said court this Eleventh day of January AD 1864 {orphans court seal} E. B. Crolling Clerk OC [orphan court]

Luzerne County Ss [sheriff station] Acknowledged in open court for the County of Luzerne in the Eleventh day of January AD one thousand eight hundred and sixty four and entered among the records thereof Certified under my hand and the seal of the said Court this Eleventh January AD 1864 {orphans court seal} E. B. Crolling Clerk OC [orphan court] Recorded Jan[uar]y 20th 1864

Sterling Saylor &c Jur [junior] et al } This Indenture the Eleventh to } day of January in the year of M.C. Mercur } our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Sixty Four Between Sterling Saylor of the Township of Jenkins and Fanny E Saylor his wife of the said Sterling Saylor being the con(?) under(?) heir at law of Samuel Saylor late of Plains Township deceased( and Stephen Abbott of the Township of Plains and Mary S Abbott his wife (the said Mary S

Page 445: being late Mary Saylor and the daughter and an heir at law of the said Samuel Saylor deceased and all of the County of Luzerne and state of Pennsylvania parties of the first part and M.C. Mercur of Towanda Bradford County and State aforesaid of the other part Witnesseth that the said parties of the First part for and in consideration of the same of Eleven Thousand three Hundred and thirty three dollars and thirty three and one third cents lawful money of the United States of America unto them well and truly paid by the said M.C. Mercur at and before the sealing and delivery of these presents the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have granted bargained sold aliened enfeoffered released and confirmed and by these presents do grant bargain sell alien enfeoff release and confirm unto the said M.C. Mercur his Heirs and assigns the two undivided sixth part of all that certain Tract piece or parcel of Land situated in late Pittston now Plains Township in the County of Luzerne and State of Pennsylvania Being Lot No 3 and part of Lot No 2 in the first division of certified Pittston township bounded and described as follows to wit beginning at the Susquehanna river thence by lot No 4 South sixty one degrees East one hundred and seventy five and a half perches to the public road thence by lot No 4 south sixty degree forty five minutes West one hundred five and a half perches to a corner thence by part of lot No 3 now owned by the Pennsylvania Coal Compny North sixty one degrees West one hundred eighty two and eight tenths perches to said Susquehanna River and thence by the same north sixty four degrees East one hundred nine and a hald perches to the place of beginning Containing One hundred Stones and seventy three perches Strict measure (Excepting and Reserving the Surface of one half acre of Land out of the asaid(?) described Lot heretofore sold and conveyed by Samuel Saylor to Samuel Billings and the surface of a strip of land for a railroad heretofore sold and conveyed by said Samuel Saylor to said Maxwell and the right of way occupied by and sold to the Wilkes Barre and Providence Plankroad Company Excepting and Reserving —(?) one acre of Surface heretofore surveyed by William D. Lewis Junior and John M. Odenheimer to Theodore Strong and by said Strong conveyed to John C. Williams and also the surface of a piece of land between the railroad

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and the creek on which the Store house of J. L. Maxwell now stands) Being the same premises which Samuel Saylor and wife by Indentures bearing date the 14th day of July AD 1855 recorded in the office for recovering deeds &c [etcetera] in said County of Luzerne in Deed Book page 21 granted and surveyed unto William D. Lewis and Odenheimer and their respective wives reconveyed tract to the said Samuel Saylor in fee by Deed of Indenture bearing date the 29th day of December 1857 recorded in the said office for recording deeds &c [etcetera] in Deed Book no 13 page 179 &c Excepting the two acres reserved in said Deed as conveyed to Theodore Strong which said two acres with the (Exception of one acre of surface reserved aforesaid to John C. Williams) The said Theodore Strong and wife conveyed to the said Samuel Saylor by Deed of Indenture bearing date the 14th day February AD 1858 and recorded in said office for recovering Deeds in Deed Book No 13 page 181 &c [etcetera] Togather (sic) [together] with all acres singular the Buildings Improvements ways waters (sic) [waterways] water courses Rights Liberties Privleges Hereditaments and Appurtenances whatsoever hereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining and Resersims(?) and Remainders tracts(?) Issue and Profits claim and demand whatsoever of them the said Parties of the first part in law equity or otherwise however of in and to the same and every part thereof I Have and to hold the said tract piece or parcel of land Hereditaments and Premise hereby granted or mentioned and intended so to be with the Appurtenances (Except the reservation aforesaid) unto the said M.C. Mercur hsi Heris and Assigns to and for the only proper use and behoof of the said M.C. Mercur his Heirs and Assigns forever Our the said Sterling Saylor and Stephen Abbott for themselves their Heirs Executors and Administrators Do by these presents warrant & grant and agree to and with the said M.C. Mercur his Heirs and Assigns that they the said Sterling Saylor and Stephen Abbott their Heirs all and singular the Hereditaments and Premises herein abovedescribed and granted or mentioned and intended so to be with the appurtenances unto the said M.C. Mercur his Heirs and Assigns against these the said parties of the First part their Heirs and against all and every other

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Person or Persons whomsoever carefully claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof shall and will except as to the reservation herein before specified and contained named and forever Defend On Witness whereof the said parties to these presents have hereunto interchangebly set their hands and seals Dated the day and year first above register Sealed and Delivered } Sterling Saylor {seal} in presence of us } Frannie E. Saylor {seal} Peter Winter } Stephen Abbott {seal} Benjamin Saylor } Mary S Abbott {seal} $20.00 Received the dat of the date of the within or aforgoing Indenture of the within named M. C. Mercur Eleven Thousand Three Hundred and Sixty Three Dollars and thirty three and one third cents in full of within consideration money Sterling Saylor Frannie E. Saylor Stephen Abbott Mary S. Abbott

Luzerne County Ss [sheriff station] On the Eleventh dat of January Anno Domini 1864 before me the subscribers a Justice of the Peace in and for said county of Luzerne personally appeared the within named Sterling and Franny E Saylor his wife and Stephen Abbott and Mary S Abbott his wife and in due form of law acknowledged the within or aforegoing Indenture to be their act and deed and desired the same might be recorded as such and the said Fanny E Saylor and Mary S Abbott being respectively of full age and by me examined seperate and apart from their respective said husbands and the contract of thei foregoing Indenture being first by me made full Known to them and each of them respectively declared that they did such voluntarily and of their own free will and accord respectively seal and as their respective act and deed deliver the same neither any cause(?) or compulsion of their respective husbands Witness my hand and seal the day and year aforesaid Recorded Jan[uar]y 20th 1864 sets(?) Peter Winter JP {SS}