Amanuensis Monday -- 1831 Land Deed of Martin Carringer To Jacob Conrad in Holmes County, Ohio

This week's document for transcription is the  1831 Deed of Martin Carringer selling land in Holmes County, Ohio to Jacob Conrad.

*  Holmes [Ohio] Deeds 1825-1834, pages 84-85, image 445 of 761:

*  Holmes [Ohio] Deeds 1825-1834, pages 86-87, image 446 of 761:

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

[page 84, starting at the top of the right-hand page]

Martin Carringer   |

       to                        |    This Indenture made this

Jacob Conrad          |    fourth day of May in the year of our Lord

_________________|     one thousand eight hundred thirty one to 

Martin Carringer of the County of Mercer and State of Pennsylvania and 

Mary his wife of the one part and Jacob Conrad of Holmes County and State 

of Ohio of the other part . Witnesseth that the said Martin Carringer

and Mary his wife for and in consideration of the sum of One hun-

dred dollars lawful money of the United States to them in hand 

paid by the said Jacob Conrad at or before the ensealing or delivery here-

 of the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath granted bargained 

sold aliened enfeoffed released confirmed and by these presents 

doth grant bargain sell alien enfeoff Release and confirm unto the 

said Jacob Conrad his heirs and Assigns all that messuage or ten-

ement containing one hundred acres of land lying and being in 

Holmes County State of Ohio numbered three in the third quarter of the 

Eighth township in the sixth range of the tract appropriated for satisfying 

Warrants for Military Servies surveyed and located in pursuance of

the act of Congress of June first 1796 entitled " An act regulating the respect

among the heathen and of several acts supplementary thereto passed 

On the second day of March 1799 on the Eleventh day of February and 

first day of March 1800 and in the third day of March 1803 &c.

and granted to the said Martin Carringer deed bearing date the 

28th April 1828 under the General seal of the United States Recorded 

W. H. Page 318 relative being thereunto and will appear ???? 

fully and at large. 

     Together with all and singular the buildings improvments woods 

ways waters water courses rights liberties priveleges hereditaments 

and appurtenances whatsoer thereunto belonging or in any wise ap-

pertaining and the reversion and remainders rents issues and proffits thereof

and also all the estate the estate right title interest property claim and demand what-

soever of them the said Martin Carringer and Mary his wife in law or 

equity or otherwise ????? of in and to the same.  To Have and

Hold the said described messuage or tenement hereditaments and 

premises hereby granted or mentioned or intended so to be with the appur-

tenances with Jacob Conrad his heirs and assigns forever to and

for the only proper use benefit and behoof of him that said Jacob Conrad 

his heirs and assigns forever and the said Martin Carringer and Mary his 

wife doth covenant promise and agree to and with the said Jacob Conrad

heirs and assigns by these presents that they the said Martin Carringer 

and Mary and their heirs the said described Messuage or tenements hereby gran-

ted with the appurtenances unto the said Jacob Conrad his heirs 

and assigons against them the said Martin Carringer and Mary 

his wife and their heirs and against all and any other persons 

or persons whatsoever lawfully claiming or to claim the same shall 

and will warrant and forever defend by these presents. 

   In Witness Whereof the said Martin Carringer and Mary 

[page 85]

his wife have hereunto set their hands and seals the day and year 

above written.

Sealed and delivered in    }         Martin Carringer   {seal}

the presence of                 }                    her

Francis Beaty                   }          Mary  X  Carringer   {seal}

                                                              mark

Received on the day of the date of the above indenture of and for 

the above named Jacob Conrad the sum of one hundred  dollars

lawful money of the United States being the consideration money other 

mentioned the ????

Test -- Francis Beaty                                 Martin Carringer (in dented)

Mercer County 

    The fourth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun-

dred and thirty one personally appeared before me the Subscriber a 

Justice of the Peace in and for said County the above named Mar-

tin Carringer and Mary his wife and acknowledged the above indenture 

to be their act and deed and desired that the same as such might recorded

according to law the said Mary being of full age and being exam-

ined by me separate and apart from her said husband the Contents 

thereof being made known to her declared the signed sealed and delivered 

the Singular indenture of her own free without any compulsion or con-

trol of her saiid husband 

     1n Testimony Whereof  Ihave hereunto set my hand and Seal the day

and year above written                                     Francis Beaty. 

    The foregoing deed was entered and recorded in this office July 

15'th AD 1831.  

Recorders  ???? ? Ge??? Paige                      James L??????  Recorder.

The source citation for this deed is:

Holmes County [Ohio] Recorder, Martin Carringer to Joseph Conrad, deed dated 4 April 1831, recorded 15 July 1831; imaged, FamilySearch  (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS4R-T4MM?view=fullText : accessed 19 July 2025), Image Group Number: 007901089, "Deed Records: Holmes [Ohio] 1825-1834," pages 84-85, images 445-446 of 761; original records in Holmes County, Ohio Recorder office.

This is an image of a Derivative Source record (because it is a court clerk's record of the land deed with Primary Information and Direct Evidence of the names of the parties and witnesses, and the dates of the patent execution and recording.  

Martin Carringer (1758-1835) was born in about 1758, probably in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Colony, the son of Henry and Rosina (--?--) Carringer.  He married Maria Magdalena "Mo lly" Houx in May 1785 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.  They had eight children.

Martin and Molly (Houx) Carringer are my 4th great-grandparents, through their son Henry Carringer (1800-1879) who married Sarah Feather in about 1825.

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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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