Amanuensis Monday -- 1856 Article of Agreement Between William Knapp and Martin Myers for Land in Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey

 This week's document for transcription is the 1856 Article of Agreement between William Knapp and Martin Myers for land in Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey.

*  Deeds, Sussex county: Sussex. Deeds 1855–1857, pages 590-591 (image 314 of 342):

The transcription of this document is (based on the FamilySearch Full-Text Search, with corrections as required, including line breaks):

Halfway down the right-hand page, the indexing box says:

William Knapp

        to

Martin Myers

In the main body of the article of agreement on the right-hand page (page 591):

Article of Agreement made and entered into this twenty seventh day of September 

Eighteen hundred and fifty five Witness that I William Knapp of the township of Newton in the 

County of Sussex and State of New Jersy do let and lease unto Martin Myers of the same place a certain piece of land and premises situate in the Village of Newton in the county aforesaid adjoining the West side of the Lot owned 

by the said Martin Myers said land so leased is eight feet in breadth and extending the whole length of the lot now owned by the 

said Martin Myers for and during and until water ceases to run and grass ceases to grow.  And the rent for the

said lot of land is hereby acknowledged to have been received by me the said William Knapp In Witness

whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the 27'th day of September 1855 .

Signed Seaved and delivered }

in the presence of                   }

Robert T. Sherron                  }  New Jersy

                                                   Sussex County ss } Be it remembered that on this sixteenth day of December A D 1856 before me a Master in Chancy of said State personally came Robert T Sherron of full age 

who being duly sworn on his oath says that he saw William Knapp the above named grantor sign seal & deliver the 

within Indenture as his Voluntary act and deed and that he the said Robert T. Sherron then subscribed his name 

to the same at the same time as an attesting Witness thereto 

Sworn & Subscribed this 16 " day of December 1856   }

         W S Johnson Master in Chancery                          }

                                               Received and Recorded 16'th December 1856 

                                                                           Edmonds Clerk

The source citation for this article of agreement is:

"Sussex, New Jersey, United States records," article of agreement, William Knapp to Martin Myers, dated 27 September 1855, recorded 16 December 1856; imaged, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSGD-3KHQ?view=fullText : accessed Dec 27, 2024), "Deeds, Sussex county: Sussex. Deeds 1855–1857," page 591 (image 314 of 342);  original records at Sussex County courthouse, Newton, New Jersey.

This is a Derivative Source (because it is a court clerk's transcription of the original article of agreement with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the names of the two parties, and the dates of the agreement execution and recording.   

William Knapp (1775-1856) had a shoe and boot business on Main Street in Newton, New Jersey, and his neighbor on the west of his land was Martin Myers.  Apparently, he leased an 8 foot strip of land to Martin Myers in perpetuity ("...until water ceases to run and grass ceases to grow.").

William Knapp (1775-1856) was born in about 1775 in what was then Dutchess County, New York, and he died 16 June 1856 in Newton, Sussex County, New Jersey.  He married Sarah Cutter (1785-1878) in about 1804 in Woodbridge, New Jersey.  They had 11 children.  William and Sarah (Cutter) Knapp are my 3rd great-grandparents, through their daughter Sarah G. Knapp who married David Auble in 1844.

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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