This week's document for transcription is the 1885 mortgage discharge of Alexander Sovereen by Robert Thompson Livingstone concerning land in Windham Township, Norfolk County, Ontario:
* Norfolk Land Records 1892-1894 | pages 516-517, image 286 of 483:
* Norfolk Land Records 1892-1894 | pages 518-519, image 287 of 483:
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 517, the second item on the page:
D. OF M.Livingstone
to
Sovereen
Entered and Registered,
at 11.48 o'clock,
7th day of July
AD 1893.
2096
AJ Donly,
Registrar
In the main body of the mortgage discharge (pages 517-518):
[page 517]
Province of Ontario } Dominion of Canada
to wit: }
To the Registrar of the
County of Norfolk
I Robert Thompson Livingstone of the Town of Simcoe
in the County
of Norfolk Esquire do certify that Alexander Sover-
een of the Township of Windham in
the County of Norfolk Yeoman
has satisfied all money due on or to grow due on a
certain mortgage
made by him to me which mortgage bears date the eighteenth
day
of January A.D. 1877 , and was registered in the Registry
office for the County of
Norfolk on the twenty fourth day of
January A.D. 1877 , at 58 minutes past eleven
o'clock before
noon , in Liber XX for Windham as No . 42625. That
such mortgage has not
been assigned . And that I am
the person entitled by law to receive the money , and
that such
Mortgage is therefore Discharged .
Witness my hand this twenty fourth day of
February
A.D. 1885.
Witness sgd. Frank Reid sgd. R. T. Livingstone
Ontario: } I, Frank Reid of the Town of Simcoe
County of Norfolk } in the County of Norfolk Student at Law
to wit: } make oath and say : 1 . That I was person-
[page 518]
ally present and did see the within
Certificate of Dis-
charge of Mortgage duly signed and executed by Robert
Thompson
Livingstone one of the parties thereto . 2 . That the
said Instrument was executed at the
Town of Simcoe
3 . That I know the said party 4 . That I am a subscribing
witness to the
said Instrument.
Sworn before me at Simcoe in the County }
of Norfolk this twenty
fourth day of February } sgd. Frank Reid
in the year of our Lord 1885.
sgd. John W.
Ryerson a Commissioner for taking affidavits
The source citation for this land deed is:
Norfolk County (Ontario) Registrar of Deeds, #80,425, discharge of mortgage of Alexander Sovereen by Robert Thompson Livingstone, dated 24 February 1885, registered 7 July 1893; imaged, "Norfolk Land Records, 1892-1894," FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSYS-3QCQ-P?view=fullText : accessed 6 September 2024), pages 517-518, images 286-287 of 483; 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 discharge with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the names of the mortgagor and mortgagee, and the dates of the mortgage indenture, and the mortgage discharge execution and recording.
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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