Orange County, IN - Deeds: David Johnson to John Marts, 1832
Tuesday, 24 August 1999

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Orange County, Indiana Deeds, Vol. D, Mar 1830-May 1833, pp. 61,62
Copy of record

page 61
At a court commenced and held at the court house in Rockville County of
Parke state of Indiana on monday the first day of February in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six by and before
Squire John G. Davis a commissioner to carry into effect all the
provisions of an act entitled an act for the benefit of persons who are
likely to suffer by the distruction of the records of sd Parke county
approved December 28 1832
Be it remembered that at this term of said court John Marts produced to the
court certain evidences in relation to the execution & delivery of deed of
conveyance from one David Johnson now deceased to him said Marts which was
received by the court and admited to record as follows to wit the said
John Marts being sworn in the open court upon his oath says that David
Johnson late of said county deceased in his lifetime towit some time in
the months of June or July in the year 1832 made signed sealed and delivered
in due form of law to him said John Marts a deed of conveyance in fee simple
with general warrant for a certain tract of land situated in the county of
Orange State of Indiana and known and designated as the west half of the
North west quarter of section mineteen (sic) Township number two North of
range two East in the district of lands subject to sale at Jeffersonville
Indiana containing 85 acres or there abouts that the consideration mentioned
in said deed was two hundred dollars that the same was on the date thereof
duly acknowledged before one Matthew Noel Esquire then and now an acting
justice of the peace in and for said county of Parke and witnessed by said
Noel and one Henry Slavens and by him said Marts deposted in the Recorders
office of
page 62
said county of Parke to be therein recorded and and was by him never taken
out of said ofice and he verily believes  the said deed was destroyed by
fire in the burning of the Clerks and recorders office of said county on
the morning of the 12th day of November 1832 and further saith not whereupon
Matthew Noel as a Esquire was introduced and sworn as a witness in this
behalf who upon his oath says that he was an acting justice of the peace
during the year 1832 for the county of Parke Indiana that sometime in
the summer of that year by virtue of his said office he took and certified

the acknowledgement of a deed of conveyance from David Johnson now deceased
to John John (erased) Marts for a certain tract of land lying in Orange
County
Indiana the number whereof he does not now recolect but heard said Johnson
say it was the same farm and tract of land whereon said Johnson had
theretofore lately lived or left in said county of Orange and was supposed
to contain something over eighty acres that he saw said Johnson sign seal
and deliver said deed to said Marts that said deed was in due form of law
with general warranty and was made to said Marts in consideration of the
east part of lot number fifty eight in the town of Rockville Parke county
Indiana was conveyed by said John Marts to Cynthia Johnson one of the
daughters of said David Johnson and Marts was to support or assist in
supporting said David Johnson during his natural lifetime and that he this
deponent was one of the subscribing witnesses to said deed and further
saith not.
   Signed Feby 1st 1386
                                     John G. Davis Clk & Commissioner