Amanuensis Monday -- 1784 Mortgage Indenture of George Wakeman to Pay Dirick Lefferts For Lots in Albany County, New York

This week's document for transcription is the 1784 Mortgage Indenture of George Wakeman to pay Dirick Lefferts the money owed to him with interest for lots of land in Albany County, New York.

[Albany County, New York, Mortgages 1785-1789:  pages 32-33, image 58 of 543]:

[Albany County, New York, Mortgages 1785-1789:  pages 34-35, image 59 of 543]:

The transcription of this Indentureis (starting at about 30% of the way down the right-hand page of the first image) with the assistance of FamilySearch Full-Text Search:

[Page 33 starting about 30% down the page):

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

of New York Gentleman this 30'th Day of August 1785.

     This Indenture made the first day of April in the year of our 

Lord One Thousand seven hundred & eighty four Between George Wakeman 

of Ballstown in Albany County and State of New York yeoman of the one 

part and Dirick Lefferts of the City of New York Gentleman of the second part 

Whereas by Indenture bearing Date the 16'th Day of September in 

the year of our Lord 1774 made between the said George Wakeman 

of the one part of the one part and the said Dirick Lefferts of the second 

part he the said George Wakeman for the Consideration therein men-

tioned did Grant Bargain and Sell Alien Release and confirm unto 

the said Dirick Lefferts and to his heirs and assigns for ever All them 

Certain Lots of Land Situate Lying and being in Ballstown aforesaid 

being perticularly bounded and Described as in and by the said Inden-

ture of Mortgage Remaining in the Hands of the said Dirik Lefferts 

Relation being thereunto had will fully and at Large appear. To

 Have and to hold all and singular the said Lots of Land Con-

tained and described in the said Mortgage above referred to with

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the Hereditaments and premisses and every part and parcell thereof with the

Appurtenances unto the said Dirick Lefferts and to his heirs and assigns and 

to the only proper use and Behoof of him the said Derick Lefferts and to his 

heirs and Assigns forever in which said Indenture is contained a provise or Con-

dition that if the said George Wakeman his heirs and assigns shall well and truly 

pay or Cause to be paid unto the said Dirick Lefferts his Executors Administrators 

or assigns the just sum of Three hundred and Two pounds with Lawfull Inte-

rest for the same at a Certain Day in the same Indenture Specified and 

now passed then & from thence hath the same Indenture and every thing 

therein contained shall cease and be void as by the same Indenture will 

more fully appear. And whereas the ^said^ sum of Three hundred and Two

pounds was not paid on the said day in the said Proviso and Condition 

mentioned according to the same proviso or Condition and whereas there is 

now Due and Owing upon the said Mortgage to the said Dirick Lefferts 

for principal & Interest the sum of five Hundred & Thirteen pounds seven 

Shillings & Six pence. Now this Indenture Witnesseth that the said 

George Wakeman for himself his heirs and assigns Doth Covenant Grant

and agree to and with the said Dirick Lefferts his Executors Admi-

nistrators and assigns by these presents that the said George Wakeman his heirs 

and assigns shall well and Truly pay or cause to be paid unto the said 

Dirick Lefferts his Executors Administrators or assigns the said sum of 

five hundred & thirteen pounds seven Shillings & six pence In Spanish 

Milled Dollars at the Value ^Rate^ of eight shillings each on or before the first

Day of May which will be in the year of our Lord 1785 with the Lawfull 

Interest for the same in the Like Spanish Milled Dollars at the rate 

of eight shillings each in full discharge of the Monies now due and 

owing upon the said Mortgage and also that the said Mortgaged pre-

misses now are and shall remain to be charged and chargeable with

the payment of the said sum of Five hundred Thirteen pounds seven 

Shillings and six pence with Lawfull Interest for the same in Spanish 

Milled Dollars at the rate aforesaid shall remain Due and

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Unpaid on the said first Day of May 1785 in the whole or in part thereof that then 

in Case it shall and may be Lawfull for the said Dirick Lefferts his heirs and assigns

 at any Time after the ^said^ first day of May 1785 to Grant, Bargain Sell and Dispose of the 

said Lots of Land and premisses with the Appurtenances to the same belonging or

 in any wise appertaining at public Vendue agreeable to the power hereby given him 

& agreeable to the Directions of a certain act of the Legislature of the Late Colo-

ny of New York in such case made and provided for to any Person or Persons 

whatsoever to & for such sums of money as shall or may reasonably be had & 

Gotten for the same and out of the monies so arising by the sale thereof to re-

tain and keep in his Hands the said sum of Five hundred thirteen pounds 

seven shillings and six pence pounds for Principal and all the Interest

become & grow due thereon together with all just and reasonable Charges and 

Costs of such sale or Sales Rendering the overplus money if any there shall 

be unto the said George Wakeman his Executors administrators or assigns 

which sale or sales so to be made by force and Virtue of these presents 

and agreeable to the said act shall and are hereby declared to be from 

thenceforth and forever hereafter a sure and absolute perpetual & 

Intire Barr both in Law and Equity against the said George Wake-

man his heirs and assings and all Claiming by from or under him 

them or any of them and of all Benefit and Equity of Redemption of the 

premisses or any part or parcell thereof. And In Witness whereof the said 

George Wakeman hath hereunto set his hand & seal the day & year first 

above or within written.

                                                                     George Wakeman {LS}

Sealed & Delivered In 

presence of before sealing 

& Delivery the word Remaining 

wrote on an Erazure in first page 

& the word sum Interlined and 

the words with the appurtenances 

obliterated in the first page.

                   Thos Palmer 

                           &

                   Beriah Palmer

The source citation for this mortgage record is:

"Albany County, New York, United States records," mortgage indenture of George Wakeman to pay Dirick Lefferts, executed 1 April 1784, recorded 30 August 1785; imaged, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9W7-FJTR?view=fullText : accessed Jan 2, 2026),

Image Group Number: 007121148, "Albany, Mortgages, 1785-1789," pages 33-35, image 58-59 of 543; New York. County Court (Albany County).

This mortgage indenture by George Wakeman agreed to pay Dirick Lefferts 543 pounds, six shillings and seven pence principal and interest (in milled Spanish dollars valued at 8 shillings each) owed to Dirick Lefferts since 1774 when George Wakeman agreed to buy lots of land in Ballstown, Albany County, New York with a mortgage.  George Wakeman signed the Indenture on 1 April 1784, with a due date of 30 May 1785. On 30 August 1785, Dirick Lefferts requested the County Court to register the indenture. It is not clear whether George Wakeman ever paid, fully or in part, what he owed to Dirick Lefferts. 

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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