Amanuensis Monday -- 1815 Mortgage Deed of Philip and Mary Row to Elizabeth Barnet in Hunterdon County, New Jersey

This week's document for transcription is the  1815 Mortgage Deed of Philip Row and wife to Elizabeth Barnet for land in Tewksbury township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey for $1,156.77.

a)  Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Mortgages, 1811-1817, Pages 190-191, Image 418 of 603:

b)  Hunterdon County, New Jersey, Mortgages, 1811-1817, Pages 192-193, Image 419 of 603:

The transcription of this mortgage deed (with help from FamilySearch Full-Text Search, but there were many omissions) is:

[Page 191, Starting in the middle of the right-hand page of the first image]

Philip Row & wife   }  Mortgage Deed dated the eleventh 

to                               } day of October in the year of our Lord 

Elizabeth Barnet     } one thousand eight hundred and fifteen 

Between Philip Row of the township of Tewksbury in

the County of Hunterdon and State of New Jersey and Mary 

his wife of the first part and Elizabeth Barnet of the 

same place County of the second part Witnesseth &c

for all that certain tract or parcel of Land, situate lying 

and being in the Township of Tewksbury County of Hun-

terdon and State of New Jersey adjoining to lands be-

longing to the said Philip Row formerly purchased by him

 of Cornelius Pratt and wife beginning at a stake and 

stones in the west Jersey Society Great tract about four 

chains and forty four links distant on a course South 

thirty seven degrees west from a Crooked Chesnut Oak tree 

standing on the west side of Alamatunk River, the same is 

of the said Society tract, and from said stake and stones runs

South Six west twenty six chains and eighty five links to the 

Brook and from thence South eighty degrees and thirty 

five minutes west two chains and fifty six links to a 

button wood tree marked standing on the south side of the 

said Brook thence south thirty degrees and thirty five 

minutes west thirteen chains and thirty links to a 

Stake and heap of stones in a line of Mathias Nickolas 

Cranmers land, thence by his line South seventy eight 

degrees and ten minutes east sixteen chains and sixty 

four links to a heap of stones for a corner thence 

[Page 192, Starting at the top of the left-hand page of the first image]

North twenty and one quarter degrees east fourteen chains

and eighty four links to a heap of stone a corner to Jon-

athan Woolvertons land, thence by his land north six 

degrees twenty nine chains to the bank of the 

River aforesaid, thence up the said River Alamatunk 

north fifty nine degrees west four chains and eighty

five links till it intersects the first mentioned So-

ceity line thence by the said Society line south thirty 

seven degrees west about four chains and fifty four 

links to the place of Beginning containing forty eight 

acres and six tenths of an acre of Land Strict measure

Together with &'c. To have and to hold &'c. To secure the 

sum of One thousand one hundred and fifty six 

dollars and seventy seven cents on or before the first 

day of May one thousand eight hundred and Sixteen 

Provided when paid to be void &'c.

Signed &'c. in presence of   }       Philip Row   {seal}

Isaac Ogden                         }                her 

                                                     Mary X  Row  {seal}

                                                               mark

Acknowledged by the Grantors, his wife being examin-

ed 11th October 1815 before               Jacob Kline  Judge

Recorded 14th Oct'r. 1815 ) 

[In the left margin of Page 191 on the first image]

Be it remembered that on the 2'd day of February

eighteen hundred & thirty, the original mortgage of

which the opposite is in abstract was broght to the

Clerks office of Hunterdon County Cancelled.

Witness my hand date above    Blackwell Clerk

The source citation for this mortgage deed is:

"Hunterdon, New Jersey, United States records," Philip and Mary Row to Elizabeth Barnet Mortgage Deed, executed 11 October 1815, recorded 14 October 1815, canceled 2 February 1930; imaged, FamilySearch 

(https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C33W-2SBM?view=fullText : Jan 13,

2026), Image Group Number: 008519232, "Hunterdon Mortgages, 1811-1817," pages 191-192, images 418-419 of 603; original papers at Hunterdon County (New Jersey) County Clerk.

Philip and Mary Row granted 48.6 acres of land in Tewksbury township, Hunterdon County, New Jersey to Elizabeth Barnet in a mortgage deed dated 11 October 1815 for $1,156.77, payable by 1 May 1816. The Mortgage deed was canceled on 2 February 1830 and Philip and Mary Row retained the property. 

Philip Row (1752-1817) is my 5th great-grandfather, and a Revolutionary War soldier, who married Maria Smith in 1772 in New Jersey and had eight children, including Anna Row (1787-1860) who married John Auble in 1804; they are my 4th great-grandparents.

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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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