Charlotte Co, NB, Canada - 1810 Deed of Daniel LEE & Wife to Alexander UMPHREY

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N.B.: Spacing added, surnames capitalized and in bold to enhance screen legibility. Charlotte County, New Brunswick, Canada Deed Book D, Page 129, No. 120 Daniel LEE & Wife to Alexander UMPHREY Executed 20 November 1810 Know all men by these presents that we Daniel LEE of Saint George in the County of Charlotte and Province of New Brunswick Yeoman and Martha LEE my wife for and in Consideration of the Sum of one hundred and seventy five pounds lawful money of New Brunswick to us in hand well and truly paid by Alexander UMPHREY of the Parish of Saint George, in the County and Province aforesaid, Merchant, the receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge, have granted, bargained and sold and by these Presents do grant, bargain, sell and aliene unto the said Alexander UMPHREY his heirs and assigns all our right, title, property, interest, claim or demand whatsoever in and to a certain lot or tract of land containing two hundred acres more or less situate lying and being on the eastern side of Maguaguadavic River in the Parish of Saint George and County of Charlotte aforesaid being more particularly described as follows That is to say beginning at the north west corner of a Lot of land heretofore conveyed by us to James ASH and by him leased to Robert ASH Senior thence east along the said James ASHS north line three miles and one eighth part of a mile thence north ten chains of four poles each, or until it strikes the south east corner of a Lot of land at present occupied by Abijah STEVENS, thence west along the south line of the last mentioned lot until it strikes the eastern bank of Maguaguadavick river, thence downstream following the several courses of the said river to the place of beginning to have and to hold the said lot or tract of land hereby granted, bargained and sold, and all and singular the priviledges, rights, members, and appurenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining unto the said Alexander UMPHREY his heirs and assigns and to his and their only proper use benefit and behoof forever. And I the said Daniel LEE and Martha my wife, for ourselves and each of us our and every of our Heirs, Executors and Administrators do hereby covenant and agree to and with the said Alexander UMPHREY his Heirs and Assigns, that we are seized of the said Lands and premises and every part thereof as an indefeasible estate of fee simple, free of and from all manner of incumbrances, that we have in ourselves good right full power and lawful authority to grant, bargain and sell the same in manner and form aforesaid, and that the peaceable possession of the said Lands and premises and every part thereof with the appurtenances unto the said Alexander UMPHREY his Heirs and assigns we the said Daniel LEE and Martha my wife and each of us, our and every of our Heirs, Executors, and administrators shall and will warrant and by these presents forever defend. In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our handw and seals this twentieth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ten and in the fifty first Year of His Majesty's Reign. Signed sealed and delivered his in presence of Daniel X LEE LS Hugh MacKAYAlexr L______ mark County of Charlott ssMartha X LEE LS her mark Be it remembered that on the twentieth day of Novemr in the Year of our Lord one thousand, eight hundred and ten before me Hugh MacKAY Esquire one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace in and for the County of Charlotte aforesaid, personally came and appeared Daniel LEE and Martha LEE his wife the Grantors in the above instrument named who did acknowledge that they executed the same by the sealing and delivery thereof as their voluntary act and deed to and for the uses and purposes therein mentioned, and the said Martha being by me examined separate and apart from her said Husband did declare that she executed the same freely and voluntarily and without fear or compulsion from him. Hugh MacKAY Justice of the Peace Saint Andrews Recd and Regd Charlotte County28th March 1811 Harris HATCH Regr Copyright © 1997 GlobalTies, Ltd. Mary Cronin Nichols