Amanuensis Monday -- 1772 Mortgage Deed of Abel Jennings and George Wakeman Buying Land in Ballston, Albany County, New York From Dirck Lefferts for 1,600 Pounds

This week's document for transcription is the 1772 Mortgage Deed of Abel Jennings and George Wakeman to pay Dirck Lefferts over 1,600 pounds for 1,006 acres of land in the town of Ballston, Albany County, New York.

Albany County, New York, Mortgages 1765-1775:  pages 564-565, image 406 of 477]:

[Albany County, New York, Mortgages 1765-1775:  pages 566-567, image 407 of 477]:

The transcription of this Mortgage Deed is (starting at about 15% of the way down the left-hand page of the first image) with the assistance of FamilySearch Full-Text Search:

[Page 564 starting about 15% down the page):

Registered for and at the Request of Dirck Lefferts of the City of 

New York Merchant this 10th Day of June 1772

Memorandum that on the Seventh Day of February in the year of our Lord 

one thousand Seven Hundred of seventy two Between Abell Jennings & George 

Wakeman both of the Town & County of Fairfield in the Colony of Conecticut 

Farmers of the One part and Dirck Lefferts of the City of New York 

Merchant of the other part; Whereas the said Abel Jennings & George Wakeman

in and by their Certain Bond or Obligation bearing Equal date herewith do

stand jointly & severally held & firmly Bound unto the said Derck Lefferts 

in the sum of four Hundred & Ten pounds & Twelve Shillings Current 

Money of the Province of New York, Conditioned for the payment of the 

sum of two Hundred & five pounds six Shillings with Lawfull Interest

 for the same all of Current Money aforesaid on or before the first Day of 

May next Ensueing And in and by their certain other Bond or 

Obligation bearing Equal date herewith do stand jointly and severally 

held and firmly bound unto the said Dirck Lefferts in the sum of four 

Hundred Pounds Current Money Of the Province of New York 

Conditioned for the payment of the sum of two Hundred pounds with 

Lawfull Interest for the same all of Current Money aforesaid on or 

before the first Day of May which shall come and be in the year of our Lord 

One thousand Seven Hundred & Seventy three.  And also in and by their 

Certain Other Bond or obligation also bearing equal Date herewith do stand

Jointly & severally held & firmly Bound unto the said Dirck Lefferts 

in the further sum of four Hundred pounds Current Money of the Province 

of New York Conditioned for the payment of the further sum of two Hundred 

pounds with Lawfull Interest for the same all of Current Money afors'd

[Page 565]

or before the first day of May which shall come and be in the year of our Lord one

thousand Seven Hundred & Seventy four. And further in and by their certain other 

Bond or obligation also bearing equal Date herewith do stand jointly and severally 

held of firmly Bound unto the said Dirck Lefferts in the further sum of four Hundred 

Pounds Current Money of the Province of New York Conditioned for the payment 

of the further sum of two Hundred pounds with Lawfull Interest for the same 

all of Current Money aforesaid on or before the first Day of May which shall 

Come of be in the year of our Lord one thousand seven Hundred & Seventy 

five as in and by the said four bonds or obligations & the conditions thereof, 

Relation being thereto respectively had will more fully appear. Now this 

Indenture Witnesseth that the said Abel Jennings & George Wakeman for and 

in consideration as well of the aforesaid four Debt or sum of two Hundred &

 five pounds & six Shillings, Two Hundred pounds Two Hundred pounds & 

Two Hundred pounds and in order the better to secure the payment 

thereof with the Interest thereof unto the said Dirck Lefferts or to his certain 

Attorney Executors Administrators or assigns according to the Conditions 

of the before in part recited Bonds as of the sum of Ten shillings Current 

Money aforesaid to the said Abel Jennings & George Wakeman in hand 

paid by the said Dirck Lefferts at or before the Execution hereof the Receipt 

Whereof is hereby acknowledged Hath Mortgaged all that certain 

Tract or Parcel of Land Situate Lying and being in the County of Albany in the 

Town of Ballston within the Patent of Kayaderossers being part of the third &

fourth Divisions of the said Town Beginning at a large Maple Tree Marked 

N'o N and V being the south west Corner of the fifth Division of the said Town 

and runs thence along at East One Hundred & two chains to a Hemlock 

Tree Marked N'o 3 & 4 then South Eighty Eight Chains & Seventy Seven 

Links to a white Ash Sapling marked N'o 15 & 16, Then west Sixty Eight 

Chains to a Hemlock Tree Marked N'o 13 & 14 Then South twenty nine

Chains & fifty nine Links to a Butternut Tree Marked N'o 19 & 20 

Then west thirty four Chains to a Hemlock Tree marked N'o II & III & 

then North one Hundred & Eighteen Chains & thirty six links to the place 

of Beginning Containing one thousand & Six acres & two third parts of an

[Image 407, page 566]

 Acre Together with all & singular &c. Which said Mortgage was 

Taken and acknowledged before me Daniel Horsmanden Esquire Chief 

Justice of the Province of New York the Seventh Day of February 1772

Registered the Day of Year first Above Written.

                                                       LS Step'n DeLancey  Clerk

The source citation for this mortgage record is:

"Albany County, New York, United States records," mortgage indenture of Abel Jennings and George Wakeman to Dirck Lefferts, executed 7 February 1772 recorded 10 June 1772; imaged,   FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9W7-M3BQ?view=fullText : accessed Jan 2, 2026), Image Group Number: 007121146, "Albany, Mortgages, 1765-1775," pages 564-566, images 406-407 of 477; New York. County Court (Albany County).

This mortgage deed by Abel Jennings and George Wakeman agreed to pay Dirck Lefferts about 1,600 pounds principal plus interest in currant money of New York Province, over four years (1772 to 1775) with 200 pounds paid each year, leaving a balance of about 800 pounds to be paid after 1775.  The lots of land were in the Third and Fourth Divisions of land in the town of Ballston defined by metes and bounds, and comprised over 1,006 acres.   It is unclear whether any money was exchanged in 1772 through 1775 as agreed.  The mortgage indentures filed in 1784 and 1785 totalled 888 pounds (including interest) so Jennings and Wakeman may have paid the first 800 pounds before the Revolutionary War started.

Note that this deed calls Abel Jennings and George Wakeman as "of Fairfield, Cconnecticut." That agrees with other records and research. 

There are several other records of George Wakeman transactions in Albany County, New Yotk.

George Wakeman (1740-1815) was born before 1 June 1740 in Fairfield, Connecticut, the son of Samuel and Elizabeth (--?--) Wakeman. He married Sarah Hill (1742-1832) on 17 June 1762 in Fairfield, Connecticut.  George Wakeman died before 2 January 1815 in Wayne township, Ashtabula County, Ohio.

George and Sarah (Hill) Wakeman are my 6th great-grandparents through their daughter Hannah Wakeman (1763-1814) who married Thomas Partridge (1758-1828) in New York on  2 October 1785.  

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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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