This week's document for transcription is the 1893 mortgage discharge of Alexander Sovereen from Lemon Gibb Sovereen concerning land in Windham Township, Norfolk County, Ontario:
* Norfolk Land Records 1892-1894 | pages 520-521, image 288 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 521 at the top of the right-hand page:
D. OF M.Sovereen
to
Sovereen
Entered and Registered,
at 11.54 o'clock,
7th day of July
AD 1893.
2100
AJ Donly,
Registrar
In the main body of the mortgage discharge on the right-hand page (page 521):
No . 80429
Province of Ontario } Dominion of Canada ,
to wit )
To the Registrar of the
County of Norfolk
I Lemon Gibb Sovereem of the Town of Sincoe in
the County of Norfolk
and Province of Ontario Merchant , 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 the
said Alexander Sovereen , his wife
Elizabeth Sovereen joining
therein to bar her dower to me which mortgage bears date
the tenth day of April A.D. 1885 , and was registered in the Registry
Office for the
County of Norfolk on the fifteenth day of April
A.D. 1885 , at 30 minutes past eleven
o'clock forenoon , in
Liber No. 26 for the Township of Windham as No . 62697
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
sixteenth day of June AD. 1893
Witness sgd . T. A. Moore sgd. L. G. Sovereen
Ontario } I , Thomas Albert Moore of the Town of
County of Norfolk } Sincoe in the County of Norfolk
Ac-
to wit } countant make oath and say : 1 . That I
was personally present and did see the
within Certificate
of Discharge of Mortgage duly signed and executed by Lemon
Gibb
Sovereen the party thereto . 2 . That the said Instrument
was executed at the Town of
Sincoe in the County of
Norfolk by the said party 3 , That I know the said party
Lemon
Gibb Sovereen 4 , That I am a subscribing witness to
the said Instrument.
Sworn before
me at Simcoe in the Coun- }
ty of Norfolk this sixth day of July in } sgd . T. A. Moore .
the year
of our Lord 1893 }
sgd C. C. Backus
a Commissioner for taking affidavits.
The source citation for this mortgage discharge is:
Norfolk County (Ontario) Registrar of Deeds, #80,427, discharge of mortgage of Alexander Sovereen by Lemon Gibb Sovereen, dated 6 July 1893, registered 7 July 1893; imaged, "Norfolk Land Records, 1892-1894," FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSYS-3QC3-X?view=fullText : accessed 6 September 2024), page 521, image 288 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.
I wondered if Alexander Sovereen (1814-1907) was related to Lemon Gibb Sovereen (1818-1894), and they are related. They are half first cousins once removed with a common ancestor of Alexander's great-grandfather, Frederick Sovereen (1714-1805), who was married twice. Alexander is descended from Frederick's first wife through son Jacob Sovereen, and Lemon is descended from Frederick's second wife through son Morris Sovereen.
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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