Amanuensis Monday -- 1888 Mortgage Bond of Alexander and Eliza Sovereen with Sarah Adelaide Crabb for Land in Norfolk County, Ontario

This week's document for transcription is the 1888 mortgage bond between Alexander and Eliza Sovereen and Sarah Adelaide Crabb concerning land in Windham Township, Norfolk County, Ontario:

*  Norfolk Land Records 1887-1888, 1888-1890 | pages 858-859, image 397 of 866:

*  Norfolk Land Records 1887-1888, 1888-1890 | pages 860-861, image 398 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 858:

Bond

Sovereen at ux          }

      to                          } 

Crabb}                      }

No. 811 B.

Entered and 

Registered, this

22nd day of 

September

AD 1888, 

at 2 minutes

past 10 o'clock

A.M. 

AJ Donly, Registrar

In the main body of the mortgage indenture (pages 858-861):

[page 858]

  No. 70545 

                       Know all men by these presents that 

me Alexander Sovereen , of the Township of Windham , in the 

County of Norfolk , and Province of Ontario , Farmer , and Eliza 

Sovereen , of the same place , wife of the said Alexander Sovereen , 

are held and firmly bound unto Sarah Adelaide Crabb wife of 

Fredrick H. Crabb , of the City of London in the County of Midde-

sex and Province of Ontario , Commercial Traveller , in the sum 

of Seven Thousand Four Hundred Dollars of lawful money 

of Canada to be paid to the said Sarah Adelaide Crabb or to other

certain attorney , executors , administrators and assigns for 

which payment well and truly to be made we bind ourselves 

our heirs , executors and administrators and every of them forever 

firmly by these presents sealed with our seals . Dated this first 

[page 859]

day of February , AD. 1888 .

                    Whereas the lands hereinafter described toge-

ther with other lands are covered by a mortgage made by the 

above bounden Alexander Sovereen to the Hamilton Provident 

and Loan Society for $ 3700 , and interest at seven and 

one half per centum ^per annum^ as therein mentioned . And whereas the 

above bounden Alexander Sovereen since the making of said 

mortgage has been unable to meet the payments of prin-

cipal and interest due thereon and a portion of the same have 

been made by the said Sarah Adelaide Crabb , and whereas 

the above bounden Alexander Sovereen in consideration of 

the payments on said Mortgage made by the said Sarah Ade-

laide Crabb and of the assumption of the said mortgage by the 

said Sarah Adelaide Crabb he the said above bounden Alexander 

Sovereen hath contracted and agreed with the said Sarah Adelaide 

Crabb for the absolute sale to her in fee simple free from all 

incumbrances on or before the first day of February , A.D. 1890 

or at such time as the said in part recited mortgage and in-

terest shall have been fully paid by the said Sarah Adelaide 

Crabb of the following parcels ^or tracts^ of land , viz : 

                     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 , containing eighty nine 

and one half acres more or less , being composed of the Southerly 

and great North Westerly part of the South Half of Lot Number 

Twenty - Two in the Eleventh Concession of said Township of 

Windham , containing Seventy - Six and one half acres more 

or less , and also of the Westerly part of the Central part of Lot 

Number Twenty - one in said Eleventh Concession of said 

Township of Windham , containing by admeasurement Thirteen 

acres more or less , which several mentioned parcels of land 

are collectively bounded as follows : that is to say : Commenc-

ing 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 and one half links to a stone planted ; thence 

South , twenty - eight degrees thirty minutes West , twelve chains 

twenty links to the Westerly limit of said Lot ; thence North , fif-

teen degrees forty minutes West , twenty - two chains ninety-two 

and one half links , more or less to the limit between the North 

and South halves of said Lot Number Twenty - Two ; thence 

North , seventy - eight degrees thirty minutes East , to the West 

twenty - nine chains eighty links more or less to the Easterly 

limit of said Lot ; thence North , fifteen degrees forty minutes 

West , fifteen chains twenty links more or less to the South - West 

angle of the North fifty acres of said Lot Number Twenty - One ,

[page 860]

thence North , seventy - eight degrees thirty minutes East , to the 

Westerly limit of the travelled road across said Lot ; thence South 

about seven degrees West , along the Western boundary of said trav-

elled road , to the allowance for road in rear of said concession ; and 

thence bounding thereon south , seventy - eight degrees thirty minutes 

West , nine chains thirty - seven links more or less to the place of 

beginning , excepting from said parcels of land the school site of

one half acre as registered in No. 7413 .

                    And whereas it has been further agreed that should 

the said Mortgage be paid by the said Sarah Adelaide Crabb on

or before the first day of February , A.D. 1890 the above bounden 

Alexander Sovereen and Eliza Sovereen shall use occupy and en- 

joy the lands herein before mentioned for the unexpired portion of the 

term between the payment of the said mortgage and the ^said^ first day 

of February , AD. 1890 paying therefore by way of rent all taxes

wherewith the land may be assessed and charged . And further 

that upon the first day of February , AD. 1890 , if the said in 

part recited Mortgage and interest shall have been fully paid or 

at such time as the same is paid in full by the said Sarah Adelaide 

Crabb and upon conveyance in fee simple free from all incum-

brances as hereinbefore mentioned of the lands above mentioned from 

the said Alexander over to the said Sarah Adelaide Crabb the 

said Sarah Adelaide Crabb shall immediately at the time of 

the delivery of said Conveyance by a good and sufficient instru-

ment in that behalf demise and lease one half of the house and 

one half of one barn erected on the lands above mentioned together 

with the appurtenances thereunto belonging to the said above bounden

Alexander Soverer and Eliza Sovereen for the term of their natural 

lives respectively without any remuneration therefor . And where

 upon payment of the said Mortgage the above bounden Eliza Sover-

een hath agreed to bar her dower in said lands . 

                        Now the condition of the above obligation is such 

that if the said Sarah Adelaide Crabb her heirs , executors , admin-

istrators and assigns shall and will pay or cause to be paid to

the Hamilton Provident and Loan Society the said above in 

part recited mortgage and interest in full at such time or times 

as the same may become due and payable and will save harm-  

less the above bounden Alexander Sovereen from all loss , costs ,dam-

age and expense to arise thereunder and therefrom and shall allow 

the above bounden Alexander Sovereen and Eliza Sovereen to occupy 

the lands herein before mentioned for the term hereinbefore mentioned upon 

payment of the taxes and upon conveyance in fee simple free from all 

incumbrances of the lands hereinbefore mentioned at the time or times 

herein before mentioned shall demise and lease unto the above 

bounden Alexander Sovereen and Eliza Sovereen the one half of the house 

and one - half of the barn erected on said lands with the appurtenances 

thereunto belonging for the term of their natural lives respectively with

[Page 861]

out any remuneration therefor , then ^if^ the above bounden Alexander Sov-

ereen , his heirs and assigns shall have paid all taxes as hereinbefore 

mentioned , and shall by good and sufficient deed or deeds in fee 

simple free from all incumbrances (in which the said Eliza 

Sovereen shall be a party for the purpose of barring her dower ) con-

vey and assure or cause to be conveyed or assured unto the said 

Sarah Adelaide Crabb her heirs and assigns for ever the lands 

hereinbefore mentioned ^at the times mentioned^ then the above obligation to be void other 

wise to be and remain in full force and virtue . 

Signed , sealed and delivered  }  A. Sovereen [Seal]

in the presence of                    }. E. Sovereen   [Seal]

sgd. D. MacGillivray             }

Ontario                      }  I , Donald MacGillivray , of the Village of 

County of Norfolk    } Fredericksburg , in the County of Norfolk , Gen-

                   to wit :    } tleman , make oath and say : 1 . That I was per-

sonally present and did see the within Instrument and Duplicate 

duly signed , sealed and executed by Alexander Sovereen and Eliza 

Sovereen the parties thereto . 2 . That the said Instrument and Du- 

plicate were executed at the Village of Fredericksburg . 3 . That 

I know the said parties . 4 . That I am a subscribing witness 

to said Instrument and Duplicate . 

Sworn before me at the Village of Freder  }

icksburg , in the County of Norfolk , this  }  sgd  D. MacGillivray 

30th day of August , A.D. 1888 .               } . 

sgd.  J. W. Shearer , J. P. 

The source citation for this land deed is:

Norfolk County (Ontario) Registrar of Deeds, #70,545, mortgage bond of Alexander Sovereen and Eliza Sovereen to Sarah Adelaide Crabb, dated 30 August 1888, registered 22 September 1888;  imaged, "Norfolk Land Records, 1887-1888, 1888-1890," FamilySearch  (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSY9-BWQS-L?view=fullText : accessed 6 September 2024), pages 658-661, images 397-398 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 mortgage bond) with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the names of the mortgagor and mortgagee, the land involved, and the dates of the indenture and recording.   

Sarah Adelaide Crabb, wife of Frederick Crabb, was the daughter of Alexander and Eliza Sovereen.  She assumed the mortgage from her parents and permitted her parents to live on this land for their natural lives.  

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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