This week's document for Amanuensis Monday is from the Killingly, Connecticut Deed records for an 1855 deed of Henry A. White selling land to Almond M. Paine:
The transcription of the deed (on the right-hand side of the image above) is:
To all people to whom these presents
shall come Greeting
Know ye that I Henry A. White of
Killingly County of Windham
and State of Connecticut for the
consideration of two
hundred and Seventy five dollars
received to my full sat-
isfaction of Almond M. Paine of said
Town of Killingly do
give grant bargain sell and confirm
unto the said Almond M.
Paine his heirs and assigns forever one
certain tract
or parcel land situated in said
Killingly bounded and
described as follows viz. On the North
by land formerly owned
by Thomas S. Pierce and land belonging
to the heirs of Reuben
Bartlett deceased, East by land of
Bernice Carder, southerly
by land of Brayton Slater to the west
side of a highway
thence Southerly by the West side of
said highway to land of
Putnam Warren, Thence Westerly by said
Warrens land and
land belonging to the Widow and heirs
of Joseph Pray deced
containing about forty acres the same
more or less together
with a dwelling house and other
building thereon standing
said premises being subject to all
legal highways passing
over the same.
To have and to hold the above granted
and bargained premises
with the appurtenances thereof unto him
the said Grantee his heirs
and assigns forever to his and their
own proper use and
behoof. And also I the said Grantor do
for myself my heirs
executors and administrators covenant
with the said Grantee
his heirs and assigns that at and until
the Ensealing of these
present I am well sized of the premises
as a good indefensible
estate in fee simple and have good
rights to bargain and
sell the same in manner and form as is
above written and
that the same is free of all
incumbrance whatsoever Excepting
said highway and furthermore I the said
Grantor do
by these presents bind myself and my
heirs forever to warrant
and defend the above granted and
bargained premises to him
the said Grantee his heirs and assigns
against all claims and
demand whatsoever excepting said
highways. Provided never-
the less this deed is given on
consideration that whereas the said
Grantor justly indebted to the grantee
by his promissory note
even date herewith for the sum of two
hundred and seventy
five dollars payable to the said
Grantee on order for value
received six months from date thereof
with interest now if the
said Grantor shall well and truly pay
said note according to the
tenor and effect there of then this
deed to be null and void other
wise to be and remain in full force and
virtue in the law.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and seal
this twenty third day of August in the
year of our Lord 1855.
Signed sealed and declared
in presenc of
John B. Truesdell Henry A. White
Stephen B. Place
State of Connecticut }
Windham County } SS Killingly
August 23^d AD 1855
Personally appeared Henry A. White
signor and sealer
of the foregoing instrument and
acknowledged the same
to be his free act and deed before me
John B.
Truesdell
Justice of the Peace
Recorded August 23^d 1855 by me S H
Coe Town Clerk
[written crosswise on the record]
Killingly May 17th 1856 I
acknowledge to have
received a full distribution for the
Debt secured
by this mortgage and do therefore
hereby cancel
and discharge the same. Almond M.
Paine
In presence of us
Recorded May 20th 1856
Stephen H. Oatly by me Geo. H. Greenslot
Susan M. Oatly Town Clerk
Killingly (Connecticut) Town Clerk, Land Records, 1709-1907; General Index, 1709-1908, "Land records, Vol. 37-39, 1850-1857," Volume 39, page 164, Henry A. White to Almond M. Paine, 23 August 1855, recorded 23 August 1855, debt acknowledged 17 May 1856; accessed on Family History Library microfilm US/CAN 1450885; original records in Danielson, Conn. town hall.
There are a number of deeds for my 2nd great-grandfather Henry A. White (1824-1885) in the Killingly, Connecticut land records. These records are recorded in the Connecticut towns rather than in the county records.
This is the fourth deed recorded in Killingly town records for Henry A. White. Almond M. Paine bought this land for $275 from Henry A. White, with a promissory note backed by the deed, and White had six months to pay off the loan incurred, which payment was acknowledged on 17 May 1856. So Henry A. White kept this land parcel in Killingly, Connecticut.
Henry A. White (1824-1885) was a son of Jonathan and Miranda (Wade) White of Killingly. He married Amy Frances Oatley (1826-1864) in 1844 in Thompson, Connecticut. Their daughter, Julia E. White (1848-1913), who married Thomas Richmond (1848-1917) is my great-grandmother.
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NOTE: Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday." John offers this definition for "amanuensis:"
"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."
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