This week's document for transcription is the 1885 mortgage discharge of Alexander Sovereen from George Smith Holmested 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 519, the first new item on the page:
D. OF M.Homested Acct.
to
Sovereen
Entered and Registered,
at 11.52 o'clock,
7th day of July
AD 1893.
2098
AJ Donly,
Registrar
In the main body of the mortgage discharge (page 519):
No . 80427
Province of Ontario } Dominion of Canada
to wit : }
To the Registrar of
the County of Norfolk .
I George Smith Holinested of the City of Toronto Esquire
Accountant of the Supreme Court of Judicature for Ontario do Certify
that Alexander
Sovereen of the Township of Windham in the County
of Norfolk and 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 and Elizabeth Sovereen his wife to bar
dower only - to
me the said George Smith Holmested which
Mortgage bears date the twenty fifth day
of March A.D. 1884 , and
was registered in the Registry Office , for the County of
Norfolk
on the tenth day of April A.D. 1884 at twelve minutes past two
o'clock in the
afternoon in Liber XXV for the Township of
Windham as number 61178 ( 32929 ) and that
such mort-
gage has not been assigned and that I am the person entitled
by law to
receive the money : and that such mortgage is
therefore discharged . In pursuance of
the fiat of the Honorable
Mr. Justice Ferguson endorsed on said Mortgage no money
having been advanced thereon .
Witness my hand this twenty first day of March A.D.
1885
Witness sgd. E. T. Malone of Toronto Barrister sgd. Geo . S. Holmested .
Ontario } I ,
Elias Talbot Malone of the City of Toronto in the
County of York } County of York Barrister
at Law make oath and say :
to wit } 1. That I was personally present and did see the within
Certificate of Discharge of Mortgage duly signed and executed by
George Smith
Holmested one of the parties thereto . 2 . That the said
Certificate of Discharge of
Mortgage was executed at the said City of
Toronto 3 . That I know the said party 4 That
I am a subscrib-
ing witness to the said Certificate of Discharge of Mortgage .
Sworn
before me at the City of Toronto in the }
County of York this twenty first day of March } sgd. E.
T. Malone
in the year of our Lord 1885 }
sgd. James W. Proctor
A Commissioner for taking
affidavits in the High
Court of Justice
The source citation for this mortgage discharge is:
Norfolk County (Ontario) Registrar of Deeds, #80,427, discharge of mortgage of Alexander Sovereen by George Smith Holmested, dated 25 March 1884, 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), page 519, 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, 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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