This week's document for transcription is the 1828 Deed Release of Daniel Small and Henry Welsh to Daniel spangler for $1 for 200 acres in Mercer County, Pennsylvania.
* Mercer County, Pennsylvania, "Deed Book: Mercer. Deed Books 1827–1829", page 526-527, image 279 of 300:
The transcription of this document is (aided by FamilySearch Full-Text Search using Artificial Intelligence):
[page 527, starting 70% down the right hand page of image 279 of 300]
Release } To all people to whom these presents Shall Come Daniel Small
Daniel Small & } & Henry Welsh legal heirs & Representatives of Mary Small
Henry Welsh } who was intermarried with Peter Small both late of the
to } Borough of York deceased. She the said Mary was one of
Daniel Spangler } the daughters & legal heirs of Reudolph Spangler also late
} of the Borough of York in the County of York and State of
Pennsylvania deceased. Send Greeting Whereas the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
by Patent bearing date the 16th day of April AD 1806 did grant and confirm
unto John Michael and to his heirs and assigns a certain tract of land situate
in the County of Mercer ( Called Recompence ) in the State of Pennsylvania N'o 929
situate in district N'o 5. and containing two hundred acres and allowance of
six per cent &'c with the appurtenances To hold to him the said John Michael
his heirs and assigns forever. Reference to the said Patent Recorded in the
land office will more fully appear and Whereas the said Rudolph Spangler
by force and virtue of divers good conveyances and assurances in the law
duly had and executed became lawfully and Rightfully owner and Seized
of the aforesaid tract of land. Now Know ye that the said Daniel Small &
Henry Welsh in right of his wife Margaret who was one of the daughters of
the said Mary deceased for and in consideration of the sum of one dollar to
them in hand paid by Daniel Spangler of Winchester in the State of Virginia
at and before the ensealing and delivering hereof the receipt whereof they do
[page 528, top of left-hand page of image 280 of 300]
hereby acknowledge and thereof acquit and forever discharge the said Daniel
Spangler his heirs executors and administrators by these presents have and each
of them hath released remised and forever quit claimed and by these presents do
remise release and forever quit claim unto Daniel Spangler and to his heirs and
assigns all the estate shares and purpart dividend right title or interest whatsoever
of them the said heirs of the Said Rudolph Spangler dec'd in law or equity or otherwise
howsoever of in and to all that tract of land above described containing two hundred
acres & allowance &'c Together with all and Singular the rights members and im-
provements whatsoever thereunto belonging subject however to certain Stipulations
and provisos contained in a Release from the other heirs of the said Rudolph
to the said Daniel Spangler. Witness our hands and seals the twenty fifth day
of April one thousand eight hundred and twenty eight. Dan'l Small {seal}
Sealewd & delivered in presence of Ign's Leitner Henry Welsh {seal}
Received on the day of the date of the foregoing Release of and from Daniel Spang-
ler the sum of one dollar in full consideration money within mentioned
Witness Dan'l Small
Ign's Leitner Henry Welsh
York County ss. Before me the Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace in and for the
said County of York Personally came Daniel Small and Henry Welsh and acknow-
ledged the within release to be their act and deed and desired the same to be record-
ed as such according to law. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand
and Seal the twenty fifth day of April A D 1828 Ignatius Lightner
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania I Charles F. Fisher notary public of the said State
{ C.E. Fisher } by lawful all hereby Commissioned and qualified residing at York Bo-
{ Notary public } rough in the said State do certify that the above named Ignatius Leitner
{ York Co Pa } is now and was at the time of subscribing the above Instrument of writing
a Justice of the peace in and for the County of York to whose acts as such full faith
& credit ought to be given. In testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name
and affixed my notary seal this 25th day of April AD 1828.
Recorded 3 August 1829 Deed Charles F. Fisher N. P.
The source citation for this Deed is:
Mercer County (Pennsylvania) Recorder, Daniel Small aqnd Henry Welsh to Daniel Spangler, release dated 25 April 1828, recorded 3 August 1829; imaged, FamilySearch (https://
2025), Image Group Number Item 1, "Deed Book: Mercer. Deed Books 1827–1829,"
pages 527-528, images 279 and 280 of 300; original records in Mercer County (Pennsylvania). Recorder of Deeds, imaged, catalogued and transcribed by FamilySearch.
The land in question is Donation Lot No. 929 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania, which was initially granted to John Michael for his Revolutionary War service in 1806. Rudolph Spangler (1738-1811) of York County, Pennsylvania apparently bought the 200 acres from John Michael prior to 1811. Mary (Spangler) Small was the daughter of Rudolph Spangler and Maria Dorothea Dinkel, and Daniel Spangler was the son of Rudolph and Dorothea Spangler. Anna Maria "Mary" Spangler married Peter Small, and had son Daniel Small and daughter Margaret Small (who became the wife of Henry Welsh). This document is a release of the land by the heirs of Anna Maria "Mary" (Spangler) Schmahl to Daniel Spangler for the sum of one dollar.
Anna Maria "Mary" (Spangler) Small and her husband were probably granted this land in the distribution of Rudolph Spangler's will in 1811 (see Amanuensis Monday - Post 198: Will of Rudolf Spangler (1738-1811)). Anna Maria died in 1816, and Peter Small died in 1823, so Mary's portion fell to their children, Daniel and Margaret Small (who married Henry Welsh). Perhaps Mary's children did not want to move to Mercer County from York County, and they, perhaps, exchanged land in York County with their uncle Daniel Spangler for their claim in Mercer County.
Daniel Spangler (1781-1851) was born in York, Pennsylvania, the son of Rudolph and Maria Dorothea (Dinkel) Spangler. He married Elizabeth King (1796-1863) on 12 March 1815 in York. Daniel Spangler moved to Winchester, Virginia in about 1816, and then moved to this land in Mercer County in 1828.
Daniel and Elizabeth (King) Spangler are my 3rd great-grandparents, through their daughter Rebecca Spangler (1832-1901) who married David Jackson Carringer (1828-1902) in 1851 in Mercer County, Pennsylvania. The Henry Carringer and Daniel Spangler families were relatively close neighbors in the 1830-1860 time frame.
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