This week's document for transcription is the 1893 Deed of James A. and Melissa Kemp to Henry Dickeson for land in Middleton Township, Norfolk County, Ontario:
* Courtland Land Records 1891-1895 | pages 506-507, image 414 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 507:
DEEDKemp et ux
To
Dickeson
Entered and Registered
at 10:36 o'clock,
13'th day of April
A.D. 1893
1666
A.J. Donly,
Registrar.
In the main body of the deed (pages 507-508):
No 80019
This Indenture
made ( in duplicate ) the fifth day of April in the
year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety - three
in pursuance of the Act
respecting short forms of Con-
veyances , Between James A. Kemp of the Village of
Delhi
in the County of of Norfolk and Province of Ontario
Carpenter of the first part and
Melissa Kemp wife of
the said party of the first part of the second part and
Henry
Dickeson , of the Village of Dellie in the County of
Norfolk and Province of Ontario
Tinsmith of the third part.
Witnesseth that in consideration of three hundred
and thirty
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 ac-
knowledged ) he the
said party of the first part doth grant
unto the said party of the third part his heirs and
assigns forever.
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 and may be
known and described as follows
that is to say being
composed of the West half of Village lot number two
in the North
side of King Street and East side of Main
Street in the Village of Delhi aforesaid
according to the
plan or map of said Village of Delhi registered in the
Registry Office
for the County of Norfolk as plan N'o 15B.
To have and to hold unto the said party of the
third part his heirs and assigns to and for his and their
sale and only use for ever
subject nevertheless to the reser-
vations limitations provisoes and conditions expressed
in the
original grant thereof from the Crown . The said party of the
first part covenants
with the said party of the third part
that he has 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 be requisite . And the said
party of
the first part covenants with the said party of the third
part that he has 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 said lands .
And the said Melissa Kemp
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 } (Sd) James A. Kemp {ls}
in the presence of } ( Sd ) Melissa Kemp {ls}
( Sd ) O. Collver
County of Norfolk } I, O. Collver of the Village of Delhi in the
To wit } County of Norfolk and Province of Ontario
Druggist 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 A. Kemp and Melissa
Kemp his wife the parties
thereto . 2 . That the said instrument and
duplicate were executed at the Village of
Delhi in the County of Norfolk
and Province of Ontario. 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 Delhi in the }
County of Norfolk this seventh day of } (sd) O. Collver
April in the year of
our Lord 1893 }
( Sd ) D. W. Parsons , Notary Pub
The source citation for this land deed is:
Norfolk County (Ontario) Registrar of Deeds, #80019, land deed of James A. Kemp and Melissa Kemp to Henry Dickeson, dated 5 April 1893, registered 13 April 1893; imaged, "Courtland Land Records, 1891-1895," FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSYS-9D24?view=fullText : accessed 30 August 2024), pages 507-508, images 414-415 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 land deed) with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the deed number, the grantor and grantee, and the dates of the deed 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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