Amanuensis Monday -- 1881 Notice of Suit by Charles S. Heyman Against Alexander Sovereen for Land in Norfolk County, Ontario

 This week's document for transcription is the 1881 norice of a suit by plaintiff Charles S. Heyman against Alexander Sovereen concerning land in Windham Township, Norfolk County, Ontario:

*  Norfolk Land Records 1880-1881, 1880 | pages 440-441, image 663 of 866:

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 440:

N'o 53,701

Heyman          }

      to                } Lispendeus

Sovereen et al }

No. 53701

Entered and 

Registered, this

Twelfth day of 

March

AD 1881, 

at Ten minutes

past Ten o'clock

A.M. 

M. Number 31871

FL Walsh

Registrar

In the main body of the notice of suit (pages 440-441):

  

         I certify that in a certain suit or proceeding now pending in the Court of Chancery 

for Ontario wherein Charles S Heyman is plaintiff and Alexander Sovereen and John A 

Cole are defendants some title or interest in the following lands and premises is brought in 

question, Namely All and singular those certain parcels or tracts of land and premises 

situate lying and being in the Township of Windham in the County of Norfolk and Province of 

Ontario containing in all by admeasurement one hundred and thirty seven acres and thirty 

four perches of land be the same more or less Being composed of . Firstly of the Southerly and 

Great North westerly part of the South half of Lot Number Twenty two in the Eleventh 

Concession of the said Township of Windham containing seventy six acres and twenty

three perches of land more or less as also of a central and westerly part of Lot Number

Twenty one in said Eleventh Concession of said Township of Mudham containing by

admeasurement Thirty one acres and eleven perches of land more or less which several 

mentioned parcels of land are collectively bounded as follows that is to say : Commencing 

on the allowance for road in rear of said Eleventh Concession at a stone set Twelve chains 

and twenty links easterly from the South West angle of said lot Number Twenty - two 

Thence North Fifteen degrees and forty minutes West ten chains and seventy seven links 

and a half to a stone planted Thence South Seventy eight degrees and thirty minutes 

West Twelve chains and twenty links to the Westerly limit of said Lot Thence North 

Fifteen degrees and forty minutes East Twenty two chains ninety two and a half 

links more or less to the limit between the said North and South halves of said 

Lot Number Twenty - two , Thence North Seventy eight degrees and thirty minutes 

East Twenty nine chains and eighty links more or less to the Easterly limit of said 

Lot . Thence North fifteen degrees and forty minutes West fifteen chains and twenty 

links more or less to the South West angle of the North fifty acres of said Lot Number 

Twenty one and thence North Seventy eight degrees and thirty minutes East Twenty three 

chains and fifty links more or less to the North East angle of Eighteen and a half acres 

of land devised by the late Fredrick Sovereen to the said Alexander Sovereen thence South 

Seven degrees West Seventeen chain and seven links to a stone set Thence South 

Seventy eight degrees and thirty minutes west Twelve chains and fourteen links more 

or less to the Westerly limit of the established Road crossing and Lot Thence bounding 

therein south about seven degrees West be the distance more or less to the allowance for 

road in rear of said Concession and thence bounding thereon south twenty eight degrees 

and thirty minutes west nine chains and thirty seven links more or less to the place of 

beginning . Excepting from said parcel of land the School site of half an acre as Registered 

in Number 7413 . Secondly -- Being composed of the Westerly thirty acres of 

the North half of Lot Number Twenty in the Twelfth concession of the Township of 

Windham.

          Dated at London this Eleventh day of March AD 1881 

                                      sgd  J. Shanly , Deputy Registrar at London /Seal/ 

The source citation for this land deed is:

Norfolk County (Ontario) Registrar of Deeds, #53,701, notice of suit between Charles S. Heyman and Alexander Sovereen, dated 11 March 1881, registered 12 March 1881;  imaged,   "Norfolk Land Records, 1880-1881, 1880," FamilySearch  (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSY9-1S61-B?view=fullText : accessed 6 September 2024), pages 440-441, image 663 of 866; 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 notice of suit) with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the suit, the names of the plaintiff and defendant, the land involved, and the dates of the suit notice and recording.   The suit quotes a mortgage number 31871 which may be between Charles S. Heyman and Frederick Sovereen (who was the father of Alexander Sovereen).

Alexander Sovereen (1814-1907) was born 22 November 1814 in Middleton township, Norfolk county, Ontario, the son of Frederick and Mary Jane (Hutchison) Sovereen.  He died 15 August 1907 in Windham township, Norfolk county, Ontario.  Alexander married Elizabeth Putman (1820-1895) on 3 March 1840 in Norfolk county, Ontario.  She was the daughter of John Pieterse and Sarah (Martin) Putman.  They had 14 children.

Alexander and Elizabeth (Putman) Sovereen are my 3rd great-grandparents.  I am descended through their daughter Mary Jane Sovereen (1840-1874), who married James Abraham Kemp (1831-1902) in 1861. 

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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