Gavin Drummond  to Stophilus Longstreet 31 Oct 1714

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Deed Book E, pages 151,152

Gavin Drummond  to Stophilus Longstreet, 31 October, 1714
	
This Indenture made the last day of October in the first year of the reign of our sovereign  
Lord George, by the Grace of God, of Great Brittain, France & Ireland, King, Defender of 
the Faith, etc., Annog. Domini 1714, Between Gavine Drummond of Loch arbor in the 
County of Monmouth in the Eastern Division of New Jersey of the one part, and 
Stophilus Longstreet of Shrewsbury, County & Province aforesaid, Yeoman, of the other 
Part, Witnesseth that the said Gavine Drummond for and in consideration of the sum of 
Eighteen Pounds Currant Money of said Province by him Received of the said Stophilus 
Longstreet, wherewith he is well satisfied and Contented, Hath Aliened, granted, 
bargained and sold, And by these presents doth grant bargain & sell unto him the said 
Stophilus Longstreet, his heirs and Assigns One Hundred & Fifty Acres of land to be 
Taken up in the Second Addition of the Second Division of one half Propriety formerly 
Thomas Coopers. To be laid out to the said Stophilus Longstreet by the Surveyor General 
And further Released & Assured to him by the Proprietors of the said Eastern Division of 
this Province. With all the Royalties, Profits & Appurtenances thereunto belonging And 
all the right, title, estate, interest, property, Possession, reversion, remainder, Claim and 
Demand whatsoever to him the said Gavin Drummond of, in, to or out of the said 
Hundred & Fifty Acres of land or any part thereof, as Amply to all Intents, Constructions 
& Purposes as the same was, with other lands Conveyed and Assured to him the said 
Gavine Drummond by Richard Stout of Middletown, his Deed of Conveyance, bearing 
Date the twenty one day of August, One thousand seven Hundred and fourteen, To have 
and to hold the said One Hundred & Fifty Acres of land and Premises with the 
appurtenances, unto him the said Stophilus Longstreet his heirs & Assigns, To the only 
Proper use and behoof of him the said Stophilus Longstreet, his heirs & Assigns forever. 
In Witness whereof the said Gavine Drummond to this Part of these presents hath set his 
hand and seal the the day and year first above written.  
Gav. Drummond.   (Seal)							

Signed, Sealed, and Delivered. Also the Receipt of the above Mentioned
Consideration Money Acknowledged In the Presence of David Johnston, John Reid. 

Memorandum this 24th of August 1715. The above named Gavine Drummond 
Acknowledged this Instrument to be his Act and Deed before me,   John Reid.


				

Surveyed for Stophilus Longstreet, Three Hundred Acres of Land, One Hundred and Fifty 
Acres whereof in Right of the Eighteen part of a Propriety which he bought of James 
Lawrence by Deed the 16 day of December 1710 and which formerly did belong to 
Thomas Coopers half Propriety. And one Hundred and Fifty in Right of Gavine 
Drummond who had Deed of Richard Stout of Middletown for Three Hundred Acres of 
land of his share of the said Thomas Coopers Forty eighth part of the Eastern Division. 
Beginning at John Haven's his Southwest Corner tree on Robert West's North line of his 
land at Manisquan and running North west thirty Chains, Thence West Twenty four 
Chains, Thence North West thirty Six Chains Thence West thirty four Chains, Thence 
South South West Thirty Six Chains, thence South East by East Seventy Chains to 
Nicholas Wainright's Northwest Corner, thence along the said Nicholas Wainright's and 
the rest of the lots North East to where it began.              By John Reid, Surveyor.

Entered  November the 2d 1715.

NOTE: A surveyor's chain is 66 feet; it is divided into 100 links of 66/100 foot each.
An area of 10 square chains is exactly 1 acre. This makes a surveyor's calculations             
of area rather simple.  For instance a square that measures 3 chains on each side             
has an area of 9 square chains or  exactly 0.9 acre.

2nd NOTE: I believe that by 1715 Stophilus Longstreet was too late to buy 
waterfront property on the Manasquan River so he bought his 300 acres just one lot away 
from the river. His son Richard's will says Stophilus later bought waterfront property 
from John West, whose property was adjacent to the 300 acres bought by Stophilus.	
		
Howard C. Kelley