Amanuensis Monday -- 1885 Mortgage Discharge of Alexander Sovereen From Robert Thompson Livingstone for Land in Norfolk County, Ontario

 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 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 518, the first new item on the page:

D. OF M.

Livingstone

      to               

Sovereen     

Entered and Registered, 

at 11.49 o'clock,

7th day of  July

AD 1893.

2097

AJ Donly, 

Registrar

In the main body of the mortgage discharge (page 518):

No. 80426

                 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 Sovereen 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 fourteenth day of April 

A.D. 1877 , and was registered in the Registry office for 

the County of Norfolk on the fourteenth day of April A.D. 

1877 , at ten minutes past three o'clock afternoon , in Liber 

XX for Windham as No . 43454.  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 AD. 1885 , 

Witness sgd. Frank Reid                         sgd R. T. Livingstone 

Ontario                       } I , Frank Reid of the Town of Simcoe in 

County of Norfolk      } the County of Norfolk Student at Law 

                     to wit :   }make oath and say : 1 . That I was person-

ally present and did see the within Certificate of Discharge 

of Mortgage duly signed and executed by Robert Thompson 

Livingstone one of the parties thereto . 2 . That the said Instrument 

was executed at the said 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 in } sgd. Frank Reid 

the year of our Lord 1885                                 }

  sgd. John W. Ryerson a Commissioner for taking affidavits . 

The source citation for this mortgage discharge is:

Norfolk County (Ontario) Registrar of Deeds, #80,426, 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-3QCS-L?view=fullText : accessed 6 September 2024), pages 518, image 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, the dates of the mortgage indenture, 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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