Andrew Bell to David Harvey 10 July 1816

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From: 
Monmouth County Archives
125 Symmes Drive
Manalapan, NJ 07726

Deed Book 2, page 700

Andrew Bell to David Harvey , 10 July 1816

Deed Poll ~  This Indenture made the tenth of July in the year of our Lord one thousand 
eight hundred and sixteen between Andrew Bell of Perth Amboy in the State of New 
Jersey of the one part and David Harvey of the Township of Howell in the County of 
Monmouth and state aforesaid of the other part. Witnesseth that the said Andrew Bell for 
and in consideration of the sum of one hundred and thirty dollars to him in hand paid by 
the said David Harvey, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, hath granted, 
bargained, and sold, released, enfeoffed, conveyed and confirmed and by these presents 
doth grant, bargain, sell, release, enfeoff, convey and confirm unto the said David Harvey, 
his heirs and assigns forever all that tract of land situate on the North side of the 
Manasquan River and on the South side of the Shark River in the Township of Howell in 
the County of Monmouth and Eastern division of the State of New Jersey, beginning at a 
stone, being the most Westerly corner of a tract of thirty six acres returned to John 
Rattoon  on the twenty sixth day of March 1794 and recorded in Book S11, page 16, and 
now belonging to Stephen Harvey. Said beginning being also about ten chains 
Southwesterly from the said Harvey’s dwelling house, thence (1) North fifty degrees 
West thirty one chains and twenty five links, thence (2) North forty degrees East sixteen 
chains, thence (3) South fifty degrees East thirty one chains and twenty five links, thence 
(4) South forty degrees West sixteen chains to the place of beginning. Containing fifty 
acres strict measure ~ in as full and ample manner as the land was surveyed to the said 
Andrew Bell as by a return thereof  dated the twentieth day of October 1813 and recorded 
in the Surveyor General’s Office at Perth Amboy in Book S16, page 251 will appear. 
Together with the privileges, hereditaments, and appurtenances to the above bargained 
premises belonging or in any wise appertaining, and all the estate, right, title, interest, 
claim, and demand whatsoever, either at law or  equity, of him the said Andrew Bell, of, 
in or to the same and of, in, or to any and every part and parcel thereof.  To have and to 
hold the above bargained premises with the appurtenances unto the said David Harvey, 
his heirs and assigns, to the only proper use, benefit, and behoof  of the said David 
Harvey his heirs and assigns forever. And the said Andrew Bell, for himself and for his 
heirs, executors, and administrators doth hereby covenant and agree to and with the said 
David Harvey, his heirs and assigns, that he the said Andrew Bell lawfully seized of the 
proprietary right of location on which the aforesaid tract of land was surveyed and 
returned, that he hath not done, nor suffered to be done any act, matter, or thing whereby 
the premises hereby granted may be in any way charged or encumbered in title, charged 
or estate ~ and also that he the said Andrew Bell will warrant and forever defend to the 
said David Harvey his heirs and assigns the proprietary rights of location whereon and 
whereby the above described tract of land was surveyed and returned to him the said 
Andrew Bell, against the lawful claim and demand of all persons whomsoever.                
In witness whereof the parties to these presents have interchangeable set their hands and 
seals the day and year first above written.
Signed, sealed and delivered in the ~         		Andrew Bell      (Seal)
presence of   Jeremiah Newman, Jr.
                     James Parker

State of New Jersey           Be it remembered that on the twenty third day of April in the   
Monmouth County            year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventeen   
***************             before the subscriber, one of the Judges of the Inferior Court of 
Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth, personally appeared Andrew Bell, 
the grantor in the within instrument of writing named, and acknowledged that he signed, 
sealed, and delivered the same as his act and deed for the uses and purposes therein 
mentioned. Taken and acknowledged before me the day and year written above.
									William Lloyd
Received and recorded April 23 1817.   Compared       C. Lloyd, Clerk