Amanuensis Monday -- 1814 Affidavit Attached To Deed of Jasper Patridge Buying Land from Josiah Pelton in Trumbull County, Ohio

 This week's document for transcription is the affidavit attasched to the 1814 Deed between Josiah Pelton and Jasper Patridge for property in Trumbull County, Ohio.

*  Deed Record: Trumbull [Ohio]. Deeds 1817–1818 - page 183, image 184 of 550:

*  Deed Record: Trumbull [Ohio]. Deeds 1817–1818 - page 184, image 185 of 550:

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

[near the bottom of page 183]

Josiah Pelton Mortgage Deed to Jasper Patridge 

see page 87 . of this book The following condition should 

have have been recorded with the Deed , on examineing found 

was omitted and therefore recorded here for wont of 

room sufficient on the same page which Condition

[the top of page 184]

is on the back of said Deed . ASutherland Recorder . 

The Condition of the within Instrument are such that 

Whereas I the said Josiah Pelton hold notes for the sum 

of one hundred and twenty Dollars against the within

named Jasper Patridge said notes bearing date 

from the first day of Jan . 1815 to be paid at the ex-

piration of four years viz 30 Dollars 1'st of Jan. 1816.

30 Dollars 1'st of Jan 1817 . 30 Dollars 1'st Jan. 1818.

& the last payment 1'st Jan 1819 . S'd Nots on Interest.

Now Know ye That of the said Jasper Patridge his 

heirs executors or administrators shall well and truly 

pay or cause to be paid said Notes with interest accord-

ing to the true intent and meaning thereof then the within 

deed to be good and valid in law to every intent and 

purpose but if not paid according to said notes then 

to be void and of no effect in law . In testimony whereof 

I have hereunto set my hand & seal this 29'th day 

of December 1814 .                     Josiah Pelton  {L.S.]

In presence of 

Calvin Cone 

Riverius Bidwell Jr.

Recorded as of Dec 16'th 1817 . ASutherland Recorder 

The source citation for this deed is:

Ohio, Trumbull County Deed Records, 1795-1947, affidavit for deed, Josiah Pelton to Jasper Patridge, dated 29 December 1814, recorded 16 December 1817; imaged, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-89MB-FCVK?view=fullText : accessed Apr 26, 2025), "Deed Record: Trumbull. Deeds 1817–1818" (FamilySearch Library Image Group Number: 005455982), pages 183-184 (images 184-185); Original records at Trumbull County (Ohio). Recorder. 

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

Jasper Partridge (Patridge in this and other records) was born 15 April 1732 in Medway, Suffolk county, Massachusetts Bay Colony, the son of Jonathan and Elizabeth (Learned) Partridge.  He died in 1821 in Gustavus Township, Trumbull County, Ohio.  Jasper married (1) Mary Rice (1737-1767) on 12 October 1756 in Barre, Worcester County, Massachusetts Bay Colony, and they had seven children.  He married Joy Nichols (1735-????) in 1769 in Guilford, Cumberland County, New York Colony (now Windham County, Vermont) and they had four children.

Jasper and Mary (Rice) Partridge are my 6th great-grandparents, through their son Thomas Partridge (1758-1828) who married Hannah Wakeman (1763-1814) in about 1785 in New York.

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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