Amanuensis Monday -- 1885 Mortgage Discharge of Alexander Sovereen By Canada Landed Credit Company for Land in Norfolk County, Ontario

 This week's document for transcription is the 1885 mortgage discharge of Alexander  Sovereen by the Canada Landed Credit Company concerning land in Windham Township, Norfolk County, Ontario:

*  Norfolk Land Records 1892-1894 | pages 516-517, image 286 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 first item on the page:

D. OF M.

C.L.C.C.   

      to               

Sovereen     

Entered and Registered, 

at 11.47 o'clock,

7th day of  July

AD 1893.

2095

AJ Donly, 

Registrar

In the main body of the mortgage discharge (pages 517):

[page 517]

   No . 80424 

                Province of Ontario } Dominion of Canada 

                                              to wit  }

To the Registrar of the County of Norfolk 

                The Canada Landed Credit Company , do certify that 

Alexander Sovereen of the Township of Windham in the County 

of Norfolk in the Province of Ontario Yeoman has satisfied all 

money due on or to grow due on a certain mortgage made by 

him the said Alexander Sovereen to the said Canada Landed 

Credit Company , which mortgage bears date the seventh day 

of April A.D. 1876 , and was registered in the Registry office 

for the County of Norfolk on the tenth day of April A.D. 1876 , at 

forty minutes past eleven o'clock in the forenoon , in Liber XIX 

for the Township of Windham as No . 40658 and that such 

Mortgage has not been assigned , and that the said Canada 

Landed Credit Company is entitled by law to receive the 

money , and that such mortgage is therefore discharged . 

Witness the seal of the said Company , this twenty-

sixth day of August A.D. 1885      sgd. D. McGee , Secy 

The source citation for this mortgage discharge is:

Norfolk County (Ontario) Registrar of Deeds, #80,424, discharge of mortgage of Alexander Sovereen by Canada Landed Credit Company, dated 26 August 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, image 286 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 dates   

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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