Robert Drummond to Mary Smith et al 30 Mar 1752

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From: 
New Jersey State Archives	
185 West State Street, CN-307
Trenton, NJ 08625-0307

Deed Book H2, page 83

Robert Drummond to Mary Smith, Ruth Drummond & Jemima Drummond, 30 Mar 1752

This Indenture made this thirtieth day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand 
seven hundred and fifty two between Robert Drummond of the town of Shrewsbury in the 
County of Monmouth and Eastern Division of the Province of New Jersey, yeoman, of 
the one part and Mary Smith, now wife to Abijah Smith, Ruth Drummond and Jemima 
Drummond, all daughters of John Drummond, late  of this town, deceased, younger 
brother to the said Robert Drummond, of the other part. Witnesseth that he the said 
Robert Drummond for and in consideration of the sum of five shillings to him in hand 
paid by the said Mary Smith, wife to the said Abijah Smith, Ruth Drummond and Jemima 
Drummond , the receipt whereof he doth hereby acknowledge, and for diverse other good 
and lawful causes and considerations not herein mentioned, hath given, granted and sold, 
and by these presents doth fully and absolutely grant, bargain and sell, alien, enfeoff, 
convey  and confirm unto them the said Mary Smith, Ruth Drummond and Jemima 
Drummond, their heirs and assigns forever, all that tract of land and meadow situated and 
being in the said Shrewsbury, which formerly belonged to Robert Drummond, deceased.
Beginning on the North side of the North branch of Locharbor, known by the name of 
White's Great Pond, at the second gully above C-oors foot Creek and running North 
seventy chains to Poplar Swamp Brook, thence up the said brook as it goes in a straight 
line thirty three chains to Potter's Cellar, thence running South to a black oak tree 
standing to Hog Swamp Brook, and from thence to where it began. Bounded West by 
Thomas Woolley and Gavine Drummond, North by Poplar Swamp Brook, East by 
Thomas White, and South by Hog Swamp Brook, which tract of land and meadow with 
others fell to him the said Robert Drummond, he being heir at law to his elder brother 
Gavin Drummond dying intestate. Together with all the buildings, fences, trees, runs, 
springs, improvements, liberties, advantages, hereditaments and appurtenances 
whatsoever to the same belonging.  With all the rights, estate, title, interest, property, 
possession, claim and demand whatsoever of him the Robert Drummond, both in law and 
equity and either of them, of in or to the same and every part and parcel thereof. To have 
and to hold the above granted  tract of land and meadow as above bounded and described 
with all and singular the privileges, liberties, advantages, hereditaments, and 
appurtenances of right and custom to the same belonging or anywise appertaining unto 
them the said Mary Smith, Ruth Drummond and Jemima Drummond. To be divided 
equally according to quantity and quality, to them their heirs and assigns forever, to their 
only and proper sole use and uses, benefit, advantages, profit, and behoof forever. And he 
the said Robert Drummond for himself, his heirs, executors and administrators and every 
of them doth covenant, --------, bargain, grant, and agree to and with them the said Mary 
Smith, Ruth Drummond and Jemima Drummond, their heirs and assigns, firmly by these 
presents that the said Robert Drummond, at the time of the sealing and delivery hereof 
hath in himself of his own right full power and absolute lawful authority to grant, bargain, 
convey and confirm the above bargained tract of land as above bounded with all and 
singular the privileges & appurtenances to the same belonging unto them the said Mary 
Smith, Ruth Drummond and Jemima Drummond, their heirs and assigns forever. And 
that the same and every part thereof now is and shall forever hereafter remain free and 
clear unto them the said Mary Smith, Ruth Drummond and Jemima Drummond, their 
heirs and assigns, from all former gifts, grants, sales, leases, mortgages, judgments, 
executions, attachments, jointures, entails or any other trouble, charge, or encumbrance 

whatsoever in the title or possession of the same, committed, or done, or suffered to be 
done by him the said Robert Drummond, or by his negligence, privity, or consent, so as to 
alter, change, charge, limit, defeat, determine or make void the above bargain and sale 
(The proprietors' quitrents, if any be that shall hereafter become due, only excepted)
And that the above bargained premises and every part thereof with the appurtenances 
unto them the said Mary Smith, Ruth Drummond and Jemima Drummond, their heirs and 
assigns, in their quiet and peaceable possession and seizen and to their only use and uses, 
benefit, and behoof, against the just right and lawful claim of all persons lawfully laying 
claim thereto, or to any part thereof, shall and will warrant and forever hereafter defend 
by virtue of these presents. In witness whereof the party first above named to these 
presents has hereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above written and in the 
25th year of his Majesty King George the Second's reign ~ 1752 ~ 
								his
Job Cook,     Joel White  ~				Robert    X    Drummond      (Seal)
								 mark  

Signed, Sealed, and Delivered .  In the ------- of the words  "dying intestate" in the 24th 
line from the top being first interlined before sealing and delivery. Also interlined with 
the word Drummond was likewise interlined between the first and second line after 
omitted ~ before the sealing and delivery.         Job Cook,  Joel White

Memorandum that on this twenty seventh day of April 1752 Job Cook and Joel White, the 
within described witnesses to the within deed, personally appeared before me, one of the 
judges of the Common Pleas for the County of Monmouth in the province of New Jersey, 
and they being duly affirmed according to the law (being of the people called Quakers) 
did declare that they were present and saw Robert Drummond, party to the within 
instrument, execute the same as his voluntary act and deed for the use within mentioned.
								
								Humprey Wady

						Examined by Thomas Bartow, Jr.