This week's document for transcription is the 1885 land deed of James A. Kemp and Melissa Kemp to Margaret Havens for land in Fredericksburg, Middleton Township, Norfolk County, Ontario:
* Courtland Land Records 1885-1889 | pages 892-893, image 844 of 850:
The transcription of this document is (based on the FamilySearch Full-Text Search, with corrections as required, including line breaks):
In the left-hand margin on page 892:
B & S.Kemp et ux
To
Havens
No. 883B
Entered and
Registered, this
2nd day of
November
A.D. 1889
at 30 minutes
past 12 o'clock
P.M.
A.J. Donly, Reg.
72933
In the main body of the deed (pages 892-893):
No 883C.
This Indenture
made ( in duplicate ) the second day of December in the year of our
Lord one thou-
sand eight hundred and eighty-five, in pursuance of the Act respecting
short forms of conveyances: Between James A. Kemp of the Village of Fred-
ericksburg
in the County of Norfolk and Province of Ontario Carpenter of
the first part, Malissa
Kemp the wife of the said party of the first part of the
second part and Margaret Havens
the wife of Millner Havens of the same place
Laborer of the third part.
Witnesseth that
in consideration of fifty dollars of lawful money
of Canada now paid by the said party of
the third part to the said party of the first
part ( the receipt whereof is hereby by him
acknowledged) he the said party of the
first part doth grant unto the said party of the
third part her heirs and assigns for ever.
All and singular those certain parcels or tracts
of land and premises sit-
uate lying and being in the Village of Fredericksburg in the
Township of Middleton
in the County of Norfolk and Province of Ontario containing by
admeasurement
half an acre of land be the same more or less being composed of
Village lots
number nine and ten South of Sovereen Street in Block C. in the
Village of
Fredericksburg aforesaid agreeable to the plan of said Village made by
Thomas W.
Walsh a Deputy Provincial Land Surveyor, a copy of which plan
is now deposited in the
Registry Office for the County of Norfolk aforesaid.
To have and to hold unto the said
party of the third part her heirs
and assigns to and for her and their sole and only use
for ever subject nevertheless
to the reservations limitations provisoes and conditions
expressed in the orig-
inal grant thereof from the Crown. The said party of the first part
covenants
with the said party of the third part that he hath the right to convey the said
lands to the said party of the third part notwithstanding any act of the said
party of the
first part. And that the said party of the third part shall
have quiet possession of the said
lands free from all encumbrances.
And the said party of the first part covenants with the
said party of the
third part that he will execute such further assurances of the said lands
as may requisite. And the the said party of the first part covenants with
the said party
of the third part that he hath done no act to encumber the
said lands. And the said
party of the first part releases to the said
party of the third part all his claims upon the
lands. And the said
Melissa Kemp the wife of the said party of the first part hereby bars
her dower in the said lands.
In witness whereof the said parties hereto have hereunto
set their hands and seals.
Signed sealed and delivered in the } (Sd ) James A. Kemp {seal}
presence of ( Sd ) H. A. Bell. } ( Sd ) Melissa Kemp {seal}
County of Norfolk } I Harvey
Alfred Bell of the Village of Fredericksburg in
To wit } the County of Norfolk Clerk
make oath and say: 1.
That 1 was personally present and did see the within instrument and
duplicate thereof duly signed sealed and executed by James A. Kemp and
Melissa Kemp two
of the parties thereto. 2. That the said instrument
and duplicate were executed at the
Village of Fredericksburg aforesaid.
3 That I know the said parties., 4 That I am a
subscribing witness
to the said instrument and duplicate.
Sworn before me at the Village
of Fredericksburg }
in the County of Norfolk this seventh day of } (Sd) H. A. Bell.
December in
the year of our Lord 1885. }
Sd ) James Whitside. A commissioner for taking affidavits
in
the County of Norfolk
The source citation for this land deed is:
Norfolk County (Ontario) Registrar of Deeds, #883C, deed of James A. and Melissa Kemp to Margaret Havens, dated 2 December 1885, recorded 7 December 1885; imaged, "Courtland Land Records, 1885-1889," FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSY9-1J7Z?view=fullText : accessed 30 August 2024), pages 892-893, image 844 of 850; original records in Norfolk County (Ontario) Registrar of Deeds, Simcoe, Ontario, microfilmed and imaged by FamilySearch.
This is a Derivative Source (because it is a court clerk's transcription of the original land deed) with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the deed number, the buyer and seller, the dates of the deed document and registration.
James Abraham Kemp (1831-1902) was born 22 May 1831 in Hillier, Prince Edward County, Upper Canada, the son of Abraham and Sarah (Fletcher) Kemp. He died 19 September 1902 in Delhi, Norfolk County, Ontario. James married (1) Mary Jane Sovereen (1840-1874), daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth (Putman) Sovereen, on 10 March 1861 in Middleton, Norfolk County, Canada West. They had five children. After Mary Jane (Sovereen) Kemp died in 1874, James Abraham Kemp married (2) Melissa Wilson (1840-1902) on 16 November 1876 in Bell Ewart Innisfil, Simcoe County, Ontario. They had one child.
James Abraham and Mary Jane (Sovereen) Kemp are my 2nd great-grandparents. I am descended through their daughter Georgianna Kemp (1868-1952), who married Charles Auble (1849-1916) in 1898.
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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."
Read other transcriptions of records of my ancestors at Amanuensis Monday Posts.
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