This week's document for transcription is the 1892 affidavit of Frederick Hugh Crabb granting a life lease to Alexander Sovereen concerning land in Windham Township, Norfolk County, Ontario:
* Norfolk Land Records 1892-1894 | pages 880-881, image 471 of 483:
* Norfolk Land Records 1892-1894 | pages 882-883, image 472 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 881 near the bottom of the right-hand page:
Life LeaseCrabb
to
Sovereen
Entered and Registered,
at 11.15 o'clock,
16th day of March
AD 1894.
2304
AJ Donly,
Registrar
In the main body of the life lease on the right-hand page (page 881):
No. 81764
This Indenture made in Dupli-
cate this Seventh day of April
in the year of our Lord
one thousand eight hundred and ninety two.
Between Frederick
Hugh Crabb of the City of
London County of Middlesex Province of Ontario
Commercial
Traveller of the first part and Alexander
Sovereen of the Township of Windham in the
County
of Norfolk Province of Ontario Farmer of the second
part.
Whereas the lands
and Premises hereinafter de-
scribed were by deed bearing date the seventh day of
April
( A.D. 1892) , conveyed by the said party of the second
part to the said party of the first
part and , Whereas it
was further agreed that the said party of the second
part should
possess and enjoy during the term of his nat-
ural life one half the dwelling house one
half the out -
In the main body of the life lease on the right-hand page (page 882):
houses one half of the one barn whichever Mr. Alex Sovereen
may select on the
said lands also the full use of the grainery
and drive shed next to the grainery and
between it and the
Woodshed. Also one half the yard or garden in rear of the said
dwelling house and all the fruit in said yard or garden the
free use of the piece of land
north east of said dwelling house
which land is bounded by a cedar hedge and board
fence said
party of the second part to have all the fruit on the said land
north of the
dwelling house .
Now therefore this Indenture Witnesseth that in con-
sideration of
the premises and of the sum of one dollar of lawful
money of Canada now paid by the
said party of the second part
to the said party of the first part the receipt whereof is
hereby
acknowledged the said party of the first part doth hereby grant
to the said party
of the second part the use possession and
enjoyment of one half ^of the dwelling, one half^ of one barn as
aforesaid , and ^all^ other
buildings now erected on the lands as hereinbefore men-
tioned on
All and Singular that certain parcel or tract of
land and premises as aforesaid situate
and lying and
being in the Township of Windham in the County of Nor-
folk containing
about one acre of land being composed
of the Southly and great northwestly part of the
south
half of Lot number twenty two in the eleventh concession
of said Township of
Windham , and the said parcel of
land about one acre be the same more or less is
granted
simply for garden purposes .
To have and to hold the same unto the said
party of
the second part for and during the term of his nat-
ural life without any remuneration
therefore to the said party
of the first part,
In witness whereof the said parties hereunto
have
Signed sealed and delivered in pre- }
sence of
sgd . W. G. R. Bartram } sgd.Frederick Hugh Crabb [seal]
sgd. S.A. Crabb )
County of Middlesex } I , William
George Renwick Bar-
to wit: } tram of the City of London in the
County of Middlesex
make oath and say : 1 . That I was
personally present , and did see the annexed
Instrument
and Duplicate thereof duly signed , sealed and executed by
the therein
named Frederick Hugh Crabb one of the parties
thereto . 2 . That the said Instrument
and Duplicate were exe-
cuted at the said City of London 3 . That I know the said
party. 4. That I am a subscribing witness to the said
Instrument and Duplicate together with Mrs. S.A.
Crabb wife of the said party of the first part.
Sworn before me at London in the }
County of Middlesex this 22d day } sgd. W.G.R. Bartram
of July 1893 }
sgd. W.W. Bartram
A Commissioner for taking Affidavits
The source citation for this affidavit is:
Norfolk County (Ontario) Registrar of Deeds, #81,764, affidavit of Frederick Hugh Crabb to Alexander Sovereen, dated 7 April 1892, registered 16 March 1894; imaged, "Norfolk Land Records, 1892-1894," FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSYS-3QH8-S?view=fullText : accessed 6 September 2024), pages 881-883 (images 471-472 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 affidavitwith Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the names of the two parties, and the dates of the mortgage indenture, and the affidavit 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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"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."
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