The instrument's own words
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Know all men by these presents that we Jonathan Tucker and Patience Tucker his
wife and Thomas A. Pierce and Thankful P. Pierce his wife clerks at Easttown d.t.
and Angus Monroe & Martha A. Monroe his wife of the County of Bristol in
land Know that for and in consideration of the sum of two thousand dollars to us
paid by the said Mary Ann James wife of John James of Exeter State of
New Hampshire state and State of N.H. the receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge to
her here released released and forever quitclaimed and by these presents do remise
release and forever quitclaim unto the said Mary Ann James her heirs and
assigns forever all the right title interest property claims and covenants which
we have have or of right ought to have or claim in and to the
homestead and farm of George James late of said Exeter aforesaid and
as bounded and described as follows on the North by land of John J. Co
on the South East by land of James the Crosdall on the South by the Common district
South on the West by the Edward Moore farm (so called) or however otherwise
the same may be bounded and containing by estimate one hundred and eighty
the same more or less and further make a subdivision of this deed that
the family burial ground and a right of way to pass the same is hereby
reserved I do have and to hold the same with all the right privileges
and appurtenances thereunto or theretoes of appertaining to the said Mary Ann
James her heirs and assigns forever And we the aforementioned nature
Jonathan Tucker Patience Tucker Thos A. Pierce Thankful P. Pierce Angus
Monroe & Martha A. Monroe for ourselves and for our heirs executors and
administrators covenant with the said Mary Ann James her heirs and
assigns that we will warrant and defend the aforementioned premises to
to the said Mary Ann James her heirs and assigns forever against the
lawful claims and demands of all persons claiming by right or under us
except the burial ground reserved as aforesaid
In Testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seals this
twenty day of February in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred
and twenty two
Signed sealed and delivered
in presence of
by Angus Monroe and
Martha A. Monroe his wife
J. M. Conolly
Notary Public in and for this
Province of Ontario formerly Upper Canada Pen. Temp. 82.
J. B. Olney
B. B. Miller
Charles Cross
Th. S. Bartlett
B. Gitebell
Jonathan Tucker L.S.
Patience Tucker L.S.
Thos A. Pierce L.S.
T. P. Pierce L.S.
Angus Monroe L.S.
Martha A. Monroe L.S.
Personally appeared Angus Monroe one of
the subscribers to the foregoing instrument and
acknowledged the same to be his free and voluntary
act and deed And Martha A. Monroe wife of
said Angus Monroe being examined separately and
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apart now or heretofore, she one of the subscribers to said instrument
not knowing the same extended to her may declared the same to have its
force not voluntary act and deed void from which she did not wish to retract
Before me at [illegible] in the County of Oxford and Province
of Ontario formerly called Upper Canada this 20th day of February AD 1812
J. Mc aughey & [illegible] Notary Public in the Province of Ontario
now called Upper Canada
State of Maine Block & [illegible]
Washington [illegible] sc
In Elizabethtown this eightth
day of March & 1812 before Jonathan Butler one of the signers of the
bearing instrument recently appeared before me and acknowledged the
same to be his free and voluntary act and deed—and at the same time
Florence Butler wife of said Jonathan and Rachel by G. Fine wife
of Thomas A. Bond appeared separately and apart from their
said husbands and declaring said instrument showed applied to them
from which they did not wish to retract
Charles House Justice of the Peace
True London County SS
New London March 28th AD 1812
I son personally appeared this within named Thomas A Bond signer
and sealer of the foregoing instrument and acknowledged the same to
be his free act and deed. Before me
[illegible] S. Raymond
Justice of the Peace
Received for Record April 17th 1812
at 10 o'clock AM and Recorded by
Thos Cross Town Clerk