Item 78: A Deed by Jacob Cist, Treasurer, Sale of Abijah Starr’s Repossesed Lands to David Scott, (removed to grey print box #4) , 1816 December 23
Item — Box: 15, Folder: 133
Dates
- Created: 1816 December 23
Creator
- Cist, Jacob, 1782 - 1825 (Person)
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Land Deed
General Condition:
Fair. The page is intact but stiff from the material it is printed on.
Measurements:
in.
Description:
The following item dated December 23, 1816, depicts a deed by Jacob Cist, treasurer of Luzerne county, to David Scott. It is witnessed by George Matson Hollenback and Charles Frederick Welles. In the deed, the lands of Abijah Starr have been repossessed by the county for taxes unpaid, composed of $2.00 to the county, and $8.00 of road taxes. These lands contain 400 acres and have been put up for public sale. Scott was the highest bidder, purchasing the lands for $13.62 ½ cents. The remainder of the deed states that all rights and profits are transferred from Starr to Scott, and protected against any other claim under the Starr warrant. On the back of the deed, in pencil, Andrew Hamilton McClintock has written a note that the deed is signed by two of his sons' great grandfathers, Hollenback and Cist. McClintock has been inferred as the creator by comparison of his signature to Gilbert’s, his son, on other items in the collection, such as 1.57 Item 57a-b: Two Photographs of the McClintock Dining Room, staging for the Historical Society’s Centennial Celebration, 1926. (removed to Oversized Box #1)
Location
Pittston, PA
Transcription Attempt:
[The page is composed of printed and annotated text. The bolded text indicates printed.]
I Jacob Cist Treasurer of Luzerne … send greeting: WHEREAS, a Tract of Unseated Land, containing Four Hundred acres situate in the Township of Pittston …surveyed to Abijah Starr hath been … assessed with divers taxes, to wit, Country Taxes Two Dollars and Road Taxes Eight dollars which remain due and unpaid for the space of one year before the first Monday of June, one thousand eight hundred and Sixteen AND WHEREAS I the said Treasurer … given due public notice … exposed the aforesaid Tract of Land to sale by adjournment from day to day on the twenty third of December eighteenth hundred and Sixteen … and sold The Whole acres thereof, at three & an half cents per acres, to David Scott … being the highest and best bidder … making in the whole the sum of Thirteen dollars sixty two and an half cents … to me in hand paid by the said David Scott … grant, bargain, and sell unto the said David Scott his heirs and assigns, the aforesaid Four hundred acres —
As also all the estate of … the aforesaid Abijah Starr or any other person in and through the name Abijah Starr in the premises had or could have … TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the aforesaid premises … hereby granted … with the appurtenances unto the said David Scott … for such estate and on the same conditions as the said Abijah Starr or any other person … or warrant in the name of the said Abijah Starr …
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I the said Treasurer, have hereunto set my Hand and Seal … the twenty third day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Sixteen
SEALED AND DELIVERED IN THE PRESENCE OF US } Jac[o]b Cist G. M. Hollenback Treasurer Luz[erne] Cy [County] C.F. Welles
Back:
Deed Jacob Cist Treasurer Luzerne to David Scott 400 Abijah Starr Warrantee
In pencil:
Signed by one Great granfather (sic) [grandfather] of my boys & witnessed by another Great granfather (sic) A. H. McC
I Jacob Cist Treasurer of Luzerne … send greeting: WHEREAS, a Tract of Unseated Land, containing Four Hundred acres situate in the Township of Pittston …surveyed to Abijah Starr hath been … assessed with divers taxes, to wit, Country Taxes Two Dollars and Road Taxes Eight dollars which remain due and unpaid for the space of one year before the first Monday of June, one thousand eight hundred and Sixteen AND WHEREAS I the said Treasurer … given due public notice … exposed the aforesaid Tract of Land to sale by adjournment from day to day on the twenty third of December eighteenth hundred and Sixteen … and sold The Whole acres thereof, at three & an half cents per acres, to David Scott … being the highest and best bidder … making in the whole the sum of Thirteen dollars sixty two and an half cents … to me in hand paid by the said David Scott … grant, bargain, and sell unto the said David Scott his heirs and assigns, the aforesaid Four hundred acres —
As also all the estate of … the aforesaid Abijah Starr or any other person in and through the name Abijah Starr in the premises had or could have … TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the aforesaid premises … hereby granted … with the appurtenances unto the said David Scott … for such estate and on the same conditions as the said Abijah Starr or any other person … or warrant in the name of the said Abijah Starr …
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I the said Treasurer, have hereunto set my Hand and Seal … the twenty third day of December in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Sixteen
SEALED AND DELIVERED IN THE PRESENCE OF US } Jac[o]b Cist G. M. Hollenback Treasurer Luz[erne] Cy [County] C.F. Welles
Back:
Deed Jacob Cist Treasurer Luzerne to David Scott 400 Abijah Starr Warrantee
In pencil:
Signed by one Great granfather (sic) [grandfather] of my boys & witnessed by another Great granfather (sic) A. H. McC
Creator
- Cist, Jacob, 1782 - 1825 (Person)
Repository Details
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570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu