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Schuyler Co., NY Land Deeds

Transcribed for the website by
Debra Gordon-Thom

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From FHL Film # 0836054
Schuyler county Deeds from Steuben, Book 1 p. 513

JUSTUS BENNETT
To
ABRAHAM BENNETT

Book 8 P. 618  (note: refers to Steuben Deeds)

This Indenture made the fifth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & seventeen between Justus Bennett of Wayne in the County of Steuben & state of New York of the first part and Abraham Bennett of the town County and state aforesaid of the Second part Witnesseth that the said party of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of Five thousand dollars Lawful Money of the state of New York to him in hand paid by the said party of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby confessed and acknowledged, Hath granted, bargained, sold, remised, released, aliened & confirmed & by these presents doth grant, bargain, sell, remise, release, alien & confirm unto the said party of the second part & to his heirs & assigns forever: All that certain piece or parcel of land situate in the County of Steuben aforesaid Bounded on the north by the road that crosses the Outlet of the Little Lake in the town of Wayne aforesaid, on the east by land of John S. Bennett on the south by land occupied by James Lee & on the west by lands belonging to Ralph Swarthout & Justus J. Bennett being part of twelve hundred acres of land known of the Conet tract in township number five in the first Range in the County of Steuben containing by Estimation one hundred & fifty acres of land, be the same more or less, Together with all and singular the hereditaments & appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining or belonging or in any wise appertaining & the reversion and reversions remainder and remainders & rents, issues& profits thereof and also all the Estate right, title, interest claim or demand whatsoever, of the said party of the first part Either in law or Equity of, in & to the above bargained premises with the said hereditaments and appurtenances, To Have and to Hold the said piece or parcel of land unto the said party of the second part his heirs & assigns to the sole & only proper use benefit & behoof of the said party of  ____ _____ his heirs & assigns forever: And the said party of the first part for his heirs Executors & administrators, doth Covenant, grant, bargain promise and agree to and with the said party of the second part his heirs & assigns that the above bargained premises in the quiet & peaceable possession of the said party of the second part his heirs & assigns against all & every person or persons lawfully claiming or to claim the whole or any part of the above mentioned & described premises will forever Warrant & Defend In Witness whereof the said party of the first part hath hereunto set his hand & seal on the day & in the year first above written
Signed Sealed, & Delivered in the Presence of
N. H. Frisbee                                                                                             Justus Bennett     - seal -
John S. Bennett
Justus J. Bennett
State of New York
Steuben County   On the nineteenth day of January A.D. 1818 personally appeared before me William Read Esquire one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of the County of Steuben the within named Justus J. Bennett one of the within named subscriber witnesses of the within deed, and made oath that he saw the within grantors sign seal and deliver the same, and that he knew the within named, Justus Bennett and that signed, sealed, the within instrument for the uses and and purposes therein Expressed, and the said Justus J. Bennett being known to me I having examined the same do allow it to be Recorded
Recorded 19 January 1818 at 10 o’clock A.M.                                          Wm Read
John Metcalfe, Dep. Clk.