Amanuensis Monday -- 1817 Deed of Stephen Cutter Buying Land in Middlesex County, New Jersey from Abner Laforge

 This week's document for transcription is the 1817 Deed of Stephen Cutter buying 1,15 acres of   land in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey from Abner Laforge and his wife for $700.

*  Middlesex County, New Jersey, "Middlesex Deeds 1825-1826", page 666, image 355 of 443:

The transcription of this document is (aided by FamilySearch Full-Text Search using Artificial Intelligence):

[page 666, starting at the top of  the left-hand page of image 355 of 443]

Abner Laforge & Wife } This indenture made the eighteenth day of November in 

           To                      }  the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and seventeen Be-

Stephen Cutter             }  tween Abner LaForge & Rachel his wife in the township of Woodbridge and State of New 

Jersey of the first part and Stephen Cutter of the Same place of the second part 

Whereas the said Abner Laforge and Rachel his wife Witnesseth for and in considera-

tion of the sum of seven hundred dollars in hand paid or secured to be paid by the 

said Stephen Cutter the receipt whereof the said Abner Laforge doth hereby acknowledge 

and discharge the said Stephen Cutter his heirs and assigns forever hath granted bar-

gained sold aliened released conveyed and confirmed and by these presents do grant 

bargain Sell alien release convey and confirm unto the said Stephen Cutter his heirs 

and assigns all that certain house and lot of land situated lying and being in the 

township of Woodbridge being the same which Gage Inslee acting and being John Inslee 

attorney conveyed to the said Abner Laforge by deed bearing date the second day of 

March in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred & sixteen which is butted and bounded 

as follows viz : 

Beginning at a port standing on the easterly side of the road which leads from Wood-

bridge to Amboy and at the southwest corner of a lot of land formerly belonging to 

William Stone now belonging to the said Gage Inslee then running along said road south 

nineteen degrees east three chains and sixty six links to a stake thence north sixty 

four degrees east three chains and sixteen links to a stake thence north nineteen de-

grees west three chains and fifty eight links to said Gage Inslees ' line thence south 

seventy two degrees west ninety one links , thence south sixty one degrees & thirty min-

uted west two chains and seventy five links to the place of beginning containing one 

acre and fifteen hundredths of an acre be the same more or less bounded north by said 

Gage Inslees ' land west by said road south and east by land of Gennet Gage.

Together with the privileges hereditaments and appurtenances to the same belonging 

or in anywise appertaining and also all the estate right title interest property claim 

and demand whatsoever of him the said Abner Laforge and Rachel his wife of in and to 

the same.

To have and to hold the above bargained premises with the appurtenances to the said 

Stephen Cutter his heirs and assigns to the only proper use benefit and behoof of the 

said Stephen Cutter his heirs and assigns forever and the said Abner Laforge his 

heirs and executors & administrators doth covenant grant and agree to and with the 

said Stephen Cutter his heirs and assigns that he the said Abner Laforge and Rachel 

his wife the within granted premises with the appurtenances in the quiet and peaceable 

possession of the said Stephen Cutter his heirs and assigns against all persons what-

soever claiming by from or under him the said Abner Laforge & Rachel his wife and 

also all other lawful claims shall and will warrant and forever defend by virtue of 

these presents.

In witness whereof the said Abner Laforge hath hereunto set his hand & seal also 

Rachel his wife the day and year first herein written 

Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of    }      Abner Laforge  (LS)

       William Cutter    Ichabod Potter               }     Rachel Laforge  (LS)

[page 667]

State of New Jersey        Abner Laforge and Rachel his wife came before me , Ichabod

Middlesex County          Potter one of the commissioners appointed in & for sd. County 

                                        to take the acknowledgments and proof of deeds & severally 

acknowledged that they signed gued sealed and delivered the within deed for the uses and 

purposes therein mentioned & the said Rachel being examined by me apart from husband 

said she executed the same freely and not from any threats or constraint of her hus- 

band.

          Acknowledged before me the 22nd day of November A. D. 1817 Ichabod Potter 

                           Received July 10th, 1826 & recorded by Randolph , Clk. 

                                                   

The source citation for this Deed is:

Middlesex County (New Jersey) County Records, Abner Laforge and wife to Stephen Cutter, deed dated 18 November 1817, recorded 10 July 1826; imaged, FamilySearch   (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSGS-DQNC-F?view=fullText : Sep 13 2025), Image Group Number 008210930, "Middlesex Deeds 1825-1826," pages 666-667, image 355 of 443; original records in Middlesexn County (New Jersey). County Clerk, imaged, catalogued and transcribed by FamilySearch.

In this deed, Stephen Cutter buys 1.15 acres of land in Woodbridge, Middlesex County from Abner Laforge and Rachel his wife for $700.

Stephen Cutter (1745-1823) was born 10 February 1745 in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey, the son of William and Mary (Kent) Cutter.  He married Tabitha Randolph (1752-1841) in about 1769 in Woodbridge.  They had 11 children. Stephen died 20 June 1823 in Woodbridge, Middlesex County, New Jersey.

Stephen and Tabitha (Randolph) Cutter are my 4th great-grandparents, through their daughter Sarah Cutter (1785-1878) who married William Knapp (1775-1856) in about 1804 in Middlesex County, New Jersey.  

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