Amanuensis Monday - Post #435: 1855 Deed of Henry A. White to Almond M. Paine in Killingly, Conn.

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 17^th 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 20^th 1856

Stephen H. Oatly          by me Geo. H. Greenslot

Susan M. Oatly                         Town Clerk

The source citation for this deed is:

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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