Amanuensis Monday is a genealogy blogging theme. It was started by John Newmark who writes the TransylvanianDutch blog.
His definition of Amanuensis is:
Amanuensis: A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another.
Today’s subject is a Delaware Land Deed Jane, and her Son John David to Nathaniel and Joshua David, 1764.1
Transcription:
DEED BOOK W1, Page 400-402
This Indenture made the Twentyth <sic> Day of January in the First Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third of Great Britain and Ireland Defender of the Faith, Anno Dom: 1764 BETWEEN Jane David and her son John David of Pencader Hundred and County of New Castle of the one part & Nathaniel David and Joshua David of the Hundred and County aforesaid Carpenters of the other part That whereas the honorable William Penn, Efquire governor and Commandeer Chief of the province of Pennfylvania and Counties in Delaware being also proper of the said Province and County, af'sd did grant as appears by his warrant bearing date the 15th Day of October An Dom: 1701 unto William Davis David Evans William Willis and Company and whereas a certain John Morgan obtained the proprietaries (Pg 401) ) warrant for One Thousand and thirty Acres of Land part of the Thirty Thousand Acres obtained by virtue of the warrant aforesaid commonly called the Welch Tract bearing date the seventeenth Day of June 1714 in pursuance thereof the said John Morgan sold part thereof unto his son Watkins Morgan as appears by his Deed bearing Date the Twenty third day of July One Thousand Seven hundred and sixteen and when the said John Morgan discovered that the said One Thousand & thirty acres of Land was part of the said thirty Thousand Acres he then purchased of the said William Davis & David Evans as their Deed bearing date the eight Day of December One Thousand Seven hundred and nineteen doth more fully appear and the said Watkins Morgan died Invested and Seized of three hundred and twenty Acres of Land part of the above described Land which he held by virtue of and in pursuance to the Deed af'sd leaving one only Daughter [Jane] and sole heir of all his Eftate both Real and Personal and being intermarried with a certain Evan David who in pursuance of the said Intermarriage was purswaded <sic> that he had a Right in Fee Simple of in and unto the af'sd Land therefore devised unto his son John David his heirs and assigns ck as by his Will and last testament lodged in the Registers Office at Newcastle may more fully appear and the said Jane David being Willing to obey her said husband Orders also to satisfy her children and to comply with her late husband will hath agreed to Confirm the Right of the said One hundred and fifty acres as far as any Right is vested in her by being party to these presents NOW THIS INDENTURE Witnefseth that the said Jane David & the said John for and in Consideration of the sum of Sixty Pounds Current Lawfully money of Pennsylvania to them in hand paid by the said Nathaniel David and Joshua David before the ensealing and Delivery of these presents the Receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged they the said Jane Davis & John David therewith fully satisfied Contented and paid therefore & thereof do acquit exonerate and forever Discharge them the said Nathaniel David and Joshua David their heirs Executors Administrators or Afsigns have granted bargained & Sold Aliened Released and Confirmed and by these presents doth grant Bargain sell alien Release and Confirm unto the said Nathaniel David & Joshua David their heirs and afsigns forever all that Tract of Land Plantation & Premifes with every the appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any waise <sic> appertaining Sitiuate lying and being in Pencader Hundred and County af'sd. Beginning at a Spanish [oak] in Doctor Peer Peer's land thence therewith South East One hundred & Twenty six perches to a stake in the marsh thence North East thirty three perches to another stake in said Marsh thence North Eighteen Degrees West thirty perches to a Corner hickory thence North fifty eight Degrees west twenty perches to a corner or Black Oak on the North side of the Road thence North Twenty seven Degrees East twenty two perches thence North seventy eight Degrees East seventy three perched to a corner Spanish Oak by the bridge thence North ten Degrees East twenty perches to a hickory saplin thence North forty degrees West twenty perched thence North thirty degrees West seventy one perches to a popular thence North twenty perches to a post thence a New division line North eighty three Degrees and a half West one hundred & twenty two perches to a post in the line of William M. Mchins? Land thence with the same and with the aforesaid Rees Rees's line South One hundred and forty perches to the beginning within said bounds One hundred and fifty acres of Land together with all and Singular Edifies Buildings ways water water courses woods underwoods Timber and Trees gardens Orchids marshed meadows Swamps Cripples Savannahs and all mines minerals hawkings huntings Fishing and Trawling with the Remainder and Remainders (Illegible word) and Provisions rents Issues and Profits thereof and all the Eftate Rights Title Interest property claim and Demand whatsoever of them the sd Jane David and John David of in or unto the sd One hundred and fifty acres (pg 402) of land to have and to hold the said one hundred and fifty acres unto the said Nathaniel David & Joshua David and to their heirs and assigns to the only purpose and behoof <sic> of them the said Nathaniel David & Joshua David their heirs and assigns forever under the Yearly Quit rents due and to become due to the chief Lord of Lords of Fee thereof and the said Jane David and John David do by these presents Covenant and agree to and with the said Nathaniel David and Joshua David their heirs and afsigns in manner following (viz) that the said Jane David and John David and their heirs the said one hundred and Fifty acres of Land and premises's and every part thereof unto the said Nathaniel David and Jofhua David their heirs and Afsigns from and against the Lawfull Claim of them of them <sic> the said Jane David and John David and their heirs & from and against the Lawfull Claim of all and every other person or persons whatsoever now claiming or that shall or may Lawfully Claim hereafter by from or under them or either of them shall and will warrant and forever Defend by these presents. In witnefs whereof the said Jane David and John David have hereunto set their hand and seal the Day and Year first above written.
Sealed & Delivered} Jane (J her mark) David {Seal}
In the presence of} John David {Seal}
Thomas Brown
Thomas David
Received of the above named Nathaniel David the said sum of Sixty Pounds, the consideration above mentioned in full by us.
Jane (J her mark) David
??? Thomas Brown
Newcastle County Js.
{S} Acknowledged in the Court of common Pleas held at Newcastle for the County of Newcastle in February Term 1764. In Teftimony <sic> whereof I have hereunto affixed the Publick <sic>Seal of the s'd County.
Recorded July 3rd 1764 Theodore Maurice, Atty Prob.
In the Deed above, Jane Morgan David and her Son John [Morgan] David are conveying One hundred and fifty acres (150 acres) unto Nathaniel David & Joshua David and their heirs.
Jane Morgan David is the 2nd Wife of my 6th Great Grand Father Evan David, Sr.
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