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To all People to whom this Present Write witnesseth these that
I Oliver Collegerone of Charlestown in King's County Colony and Citizen of Newportland German f
and in consideration of the Sum of two hundred and fifty Pounds of lawful Money to me paid
and well and truly paid before me the Secretary hereof by Mr Edward Copeland of the said City
approved witness the Receipt whereof I do by these presents Acknowledge myself thoroughly well satisfied
do sell convey and pass transfer by and parcel thereof by said parcel thereof to hereby Devise
convey and discharge the said Mr Edward Candal his Heirs Servants and Assigns forever by the
said Edward Candal given grant bargain and sale with a warranty expressed conveyed and confirmed unto
him the said Mr Candal his Heirs and Assigns forever a piece of land situate root of said land sit
in the said Charlestown lying between by North line Two hundred and eighty six Acres more or less
be the same more or less and to Bound Boundary of a said Close by a Close more or less
it being Bound North East Corner with those those with 23 1/2 Degrees East by St Jaynes Land
to a Stake of stone whose Tree Coming southly 23 1/2 Degrees partly by Mr Candal Engaged
Land partly by Jonathan Fisher Engaged Land until it come to the South West Corner of the present
to a Stake whose distance there 36 1/2 Degrees west by St Jaynes Engaged land until it come to
James Kingyes Land to a Stake of stone whose distance 18 1/2 Degrees East by James Kingyes Land
until it come to a Copper Tree mark on four sides with silver about there it come North Eastly with
and west by St Jaynes Engaged Land until it come to a Stake with Five Stone surrounding
it and mark with a y and then South West Degrees more and until it come to the North East
Corner Bound above and forbid the said grant Bargain and Bargain Promise with all the
Appurtenances Privileges & commodities to the said land belonging or in any way appertaining
to him the said Mr Candal his Heirs and Assigns forever to him and theirs in any Right Repai
of Descent and Heritable foreserves and I the said Oliver Collegerone for me my Heirs Descendants
as lawfully Born Children and Grant and convey the said Mr Candal his Heirs and Assigns for
their heirs and until the dwelling House set on the said land the sole vote and Lawful Course of all the
begin Bargain Promise in my own proper right and our Lawfully signed and set off after
some and good Perfect and Absolute Release of convenience in the Simple owning in my
own right to sell and Devise of the same in the manner as above and that the said Mr
Candal his Heirs and Assigns shall hold and enjoy forever between and before Catherine Philip
Sons of my Diversity Heirs’ Heirs’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’
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Kings County Ye Personally came the above Signor Oliver Colbegrove the Day 9th
of October above written and Acknowledged the above and foregoing Deed to be his Voluntary Act
and Deed with his Hand and Seal thereto affixed
Before Simeon Perry Justin Com Pis
The above and foregoing Deed was recorded the 20th day of October A.D. 1780
To all People to whom these presents shall come Greeting Know ye That William
Master of Charterhouse in the County of Kings County and Citizen of Philadelphia State of Pennsylvania He and in
Consideration of the sum of Twelve Pounds lawful Money of the same I do stand posture witness to be paid upon the
Executing and Delivery hereof of the said Robert Pope of the same Town County and Colony above named
Leavening the premises hereof I do hereby acknowledge by my right hereditary fully lawfully lawfully contracted
and sold and found to my hereby fully and clearly equal conveyed and discharge and hand the said Robert Pope
his heirs Assigns, servants forever by his hand wrote Here Given George Gardiner’s Seal Signed
Executed recognized & confirmed, and by the said Robert Pope fully partly and absolutely gave good payment
Still coin enough convey and confirm with him the said Robert Pope his heirs and Assigns and forever possess
Our certain Parcel piece of land weighing four and being in Charterhouse town containing
Twenty Four Bounds to northwest 35 poles to northeast 29 poles to the Highway at a Black Stone Pile
Mold which is William B. poles Corner there 45 poles to the N.W. 65 poles East on Mud Wall boundary
by a Post of Shade there 35 poles N.W. 35 poles to the N.E. while the said Mud Wall there 28 poles to
the east there S.P.E. Home chain’s fully 15 chains S.E. 18 poles chain there North 23 poles of first
five chains 45 poles line per one a chain then S.E. 6 poles East boundary close to the Hwy there
then by the Highway to the first mentioned boundary bounded Northly partly by William Bryant’s
Land fully on John Carter’s Land partly on said Land belonging to said Robert Pope as formerly
Land belonging to the Granter westerly and Easterly bounded on the Granter’s Land Northly
partly on the Hwy there & partly on William Robert’s Land
To have and to hold the said Granted and bargained Premises with all the Privileges
and Appurtenances thereto belonging on and every superintending unto him the said Robert Pope
his heirs and Assigns his heirs and assigns his and their only Proper and best benefit and behalf forever as
the William Master for my Here Given and determine to Council Prompt and Quantly
with the said Robert Pope his Heirs and Assigns that forever by Inheritancy and Devise of trophy
Present the same True and Lawful Owner of the above said premises and as an Lawfully
Seized and Possessed of the same in my own Proper Right as a good Better Citizen of Philadelphia
in the County and hand in my own right Good Full Power and Lawful Authority to grant bargain
sell convey and confirm the above said premises in manner as above written and that the
said Robert Pope his heirs and Assigns may now and shall from time to Time and at all Times
forever hereafter by form and Tenure of the above Presents Lawfully decently and Sincerely have and
enjoy benefit by form and Tenure of the said Granted and bargained premises with the Appurtenances above
mentioned belong to him clear and fully and clearly conveyed and Discharged of all burdens
all manner of taxes or other the Right’s Grant, bargains, sales Leases, Mortgages, ventures
Wll. Pellets Device Judgments Executions, Incumbrances and so forth in the above
Furthermore