Amanuensis Monday -- 1892 Land Deed of James and Hannah Whitside to James A. Kemp for Land in Delhi Village, Norfolk County, Ontario

This week's document for transcription is the 1892 land deed of  James and Hannah Whitside to James A. Kemp for land in Delhi Village, Norfolk County, Ontario:

*  Courtland Land Records 1891-1895 | pages 338-339, image 330 of 865:

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 338:

DEED
Whitside et ux

To

Kemp

Entered and Registered

at 2:32 o'clock,

19'th day of November

A.D. 1892 

1569

A.J. Donly, 

           Registrar.

In the main body of the deed (pages 338-339):

  

N'o.  79073

                                                              This Indenture 

made in duplicate the twenty-seventh day of October 

one thousand eight hundred and ninety-two, in pur-

suance of the Act respecting short forms of coney-

ances: Between convey James Whitside of the Township 

of Middleton in the County of Norfolk Merchant 

of the first part, Hannah Whitside his wife of the 

second part and James A. Kemp of the same place 

Carpenter of the third part.

           Witnesseth that in consideration of one hundred 

and twenty - five 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 in fee simple:

             All and singular that certain parcel or tract of 

land and premises situate lying and being in the Village 

of Delhi in the Township of Middleton in the County of 

Norfolk and Province of Ontario containing by admeasure-

ment fifteen perches of land be the same more or less 

being composed of part of Village lot number two on 

the North side of King Street and East side of Main -

Street in said Village of Delhi and bounded as follows: 

that is to say: beginning at the South-easterly angle 

of said Village lot number two, thence West in a North-

westerly direction twenty-nine feet not more nor less along 

Main Street and Westerly limit of said lot, thence North 

in a Northeasterly direction parallel with the Easterly limit 

of said lot to the Northerly limit of said lot ten perches 

more or less; thence East in a south-easterly direction 

twenty-nine feet more or less; thence South in a South

westerly direction to the place of beginning along the 

Easterly limit of said lot.

               To have and to hold unto the said party of the third 

part his heirs and assigns to and for his and their sole and 

only use for ever subject nevertheless to the reservations 

limitations provisoes and conditions expressed in the 

original grant thereof from the Crown. And the said

party of the first part covenants with the said party 

of the third part that he hath done no act to encum-

ber 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 said lands. 

              And the said party of the second part hereby 

has her dower in and lands.

              In witness whereof the said parties hereto 

have hereunto set their hands and seals.

Signed sealed and delivered }   (Sd)   James Whitside   {ls}  

        in the presence of         }   (Sd) Hannah Whitside  {ls}

 Sd ) N. H. Whitside             }

County of Norfolk   }  I Wilbur H. Whitside of the 

                 To wit :   } Village of Delhi Traveller make 

oath and say : 1 That I was personally present 

and did see the within instrument and duplicate 

thereof duly signed sealed and executed by James 

Whitside and Hannah Whitside two of the parties 

thereto. 2. That the said instrument and duplicate 

were executed at the Township of Middleton Village 

of Delhi. 3 That I know the said parties. 4 That I am a 

subscribing witness to the said instrument and duplicate.

Sworn before me at Delhi in the             }

County of Norfolk this 15th day            }   (Sd) Wilbur H. Whitside.

of Nov'r in the year of our Lord 1892. }

( Sd ) W. A. Ferguson, A commissioner for taking affidavits.

 

The source citation for this land deed is:

Norfolk County (Ontario) Registrar of Deeds, #79093, land deed of  James and Hannah Whitside to James A. Kemp, dated 15 November 1892, registered 19 November 1892;  imaged,   "Courtland Land Records, 1891-1895," FamilySearch  (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSYS-96MJ?view=fullText : accessed 30 August 2024), pages 338-339, image 330 of 865; 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 mortgage indenture) with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the mortgage number, the mortgagor and mortgagee, and the dates of the indenture execution and recording. 

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.

Read other transcriptions of records of my ancestors at Amanuensis Monday Posts.

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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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