Amanuensis Monday -- 1805 Deed Indenture of George and Sarah Wakeman Selling Land in Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania to Aaron Applegate for $720

 This week's document for transcription is the 1805 Deed Indenture of George and Sarah Wakeman to Aaron Applegate selling 60 acres of land in Elizabeth Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania for $720.  

Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Deeds 1804-1807:  pages 98-99, image 65 of 293]:

The transcription of this Deed Indenture (starting on page 98 near the top of the page) with the assistance of FamilySearch Full-Text Search:

[Page 98 starting near the tope of the left-hand page of the image]:

The transcription of this record (with the help of the FamilySearch Full-Text Search feature) is:

[Page 98, starting near the top of the page]

 

This Indenture, made this fifth day of March One thousand eight

hundred and five, Between, George Wakeman of Elizabeth Township Allegheny

County & Commonwealth of Pennsylvania & Sarah his wife of the one part 

Aaron Applegate of the same place of the other part, Witnesseth, the said 

George Wakeman and Sarah his wife for and in Consideration of Seven hun-

dred & twenty Dollars to them in hand paid by the said Aaron Applegate 

the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have granted, bargained, sold 

enfeoffed, released and confirmed & by these presents do grant, bargain 

sell enfeoff Release and confirm unto the said Aaron Applegate his heirs 

Executors, Administrator & assigns, a certain Piece or Parcel of Land situate 

lying and being in Elizabeth Township Allegheny County and Commonwealth 

of Pennsylvania it being part of the same Tract of Land for which a 

Patent of confirmation was Granted by the Commonwealth of Pennsylva-

nia to John McClure and William Fleming Executors of Richard Parker 

Deceased bearing date the twenty second day of September One thousand 

Seven hundred and Eighty five and of the Commonwealth the tenth 

& recorded in the Rolls Office for Patent Book No 4 , Page 2 , and 

conveyed by the said John McClure and the Heirs of the said Richard 

Parker Deceased, by Indenture to George Loveless, Dated the second day 

of May One thousand Seven hundred and ninety six and Recorded in the 

office for Recording of Deeds in and for Allegheny County in Book D

Page 586 and this said Part conveyed by George Loveless and Lucy 

his wife by Indenture dated the third day of June One thousand 

eight hundred & Recorded in the Office for Recording of Deeds in and for Allegh-

eny County in Book I page 485 to the aforesaid George Wakeman reference 

being had to the aforesaid Records and Deed will more fully appear, The said 

Part, sold, aliened & to said Aaron Applegate. Bounded and situated as follows 

Begining at a Hickory thence by Lands of Alexander Dunlap now George Fleming 

North Ninety Seven perches to a White Oak thence South eighty degrees East . 

Sixty four Puches to a walnut thence along said Aaron Applegate Line until 

it intersects with the original line and thence along the said Original 

line to the place of Beginning Containing sixty acres be the same more or less 

Together with all and Singular other the Houses Out Houses, buildings, barne stab-

les ways Woods Waters, water Course, Right Liberties privileges, Hereditaments 

and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging or in any wise apperta-

ining & Reversions, Remainder, rents, issues and profits thereof, To have and 

to hold the hereby granted premises with the appurtenances and every part and

parcel thereof unto the said Aaron Applegate his heirs and assigns to the 

only proper use and Behon Proof of the said Aaron Applegate his heirs and 

assigns forever and the said George Wakeman and Sarah his wife from them 

their heirs and from every other person the aforesaid Described pease of 

Land unto the said Aaron Applegate his heirs and assigns shall by 

[page 99]

these presents warrant and forever Defend. In Witness whereof we have here-

unto set their hands and seals the day and year above written . 

Sealed and Delivered in presence of                     }  George Wakeman   {Seal}

Wm McClure. David Gilmer. James McClure }  Sarah Wakeman     {Seal}

Received March 5 , 1805 , of Aaron Applegate the within mentioned consideration money in full ,                                                     George Wakeman 

Allegheny County Be it Remembered that on the fifth day of March One thous-

and eight hundred and five , Personally before me one of the Justices of the Peace 

in & for said County same George Wakeman and Sarah his wife the assigners of 

the within Indenture and acknowledged the same to be their voluntary Act & Deed 

and desires the same to be Recorded as such, the said Sarah being examined by 

me separate and apart from her said Husband freely consented thereto , Witness 

my hand and seal the day and year above written .

                                                                                  Wm McClure 

          Recorded the 25th March 1805.

The source citation for this mortgage record is:

"Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States records," Indenture of George and Sarah Wakeman to Aaron Applegate, executed 5 March 1805, recorded 25 March 1805; imaged, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSJ7-79RP-W?view=fullText : accessed Jan 2, 2026), Image Group Number: 008091668, "Deed book, Allegheny County, 1804-1807," pages 98-99, image 65 of 293; original records in Allegheny County (Pennsylvania). Recorder of Deeds.

This deed indenture is for 60 acres of land in Elizabeth township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania owned by George and Sarah Wakeman of Elizabeth township selling the parcel for $720 to Aaron Applegate, also of Elizabeth township.  The land is the same parcel that George and Sarah Wakeman bought from George and Lucy Loveless in 1800 and mortgaged to Aaron Applegate for $296 in 1801, and paying off the mortgage in 1805.  

This is the last land record I've found for George Wakeman in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.

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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