Samuel Harvey, Jr & Wife to Joshua Gifford, Jr 3 Nov 1790

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

Deed Book M, pages 56 & 57

Samuel Harvey, Jr. & Wife to Joshua Gifford, Jr., 3 Nov 1790

Deed Indented. This Indenture made this third day of November in the year of our Lord 
one thousand seven hundred and ninety, between Samuel Harvey, Jr., son of Robert, 
deceased, of the Township of Shrewsbury in the County of Monmouth and State of New 
Jersey, of the one part, and  Joshua Gifford, Jr. of the same place aforesaid, of the other 
part. Witnesseth that the said Samuel Harvey and his wife Lydia Harvey for and in 
consideration of the sum of  three hundred and twenty eight pounds Proclamation money 
of said state to him in hand paid by the said Joshua Gifford, receipt whereof I hereby 
acknowledge, and the said Joshua Gifford thereof discharged, hath granted, bargained, 
sold, released, assured, conveyed and confirmed  and by these presents doth grant, 
bargain, sell, release, assure, convey and confirm unto the said Joshua Gifford, his heirs 
and assigns, the following plantation whereon the said Samuel Harvey now lives, which 
was conveyed to him by a deed of sale from Thomas Cook, bearing date the twentieth day 
of March, 1787. Part of said plantation was conveyed to said Thomas Cook by the last 
will of his deceased father, Ebeneser Cook , and by a deed from David Knott dated the 
first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and sixty one, and also by another 
deed of sale from his brother William Cook, a reference being had to the said deed from 
Thomas Cook to the present grantor, Samuel Harvey, will show all the butts and 
boundaries of this within granted plantation. It does boundeth South on Manasquan River 
and Easterly on John Johnston and Westerly on a forty acre lot formerly sold out of the 
old survey, the other two lots that were conveyed by David Knott to Thomas Cook and 
William Cook is the boundaries and points of  compass and number of chains particularly 
described in the deeds from said David Knott to the above said Thomas and William 
Cook, being all the lands sold by Thomas Cook to Samuel Harvey, bearing date
as above, the which deed and the two deeds from David Knott to Thomas And William 
Cook and the deed from Joseph Lawrence to Ebenezer Cook is all four of the said deeds 
delivered to said Joshua Gifford to show the said butts and boundaries of said plantation 
now conveyed by these presents by the said Samuel Harvey to said Joshua Gifford. 
Together with all the houses, barns, orchards, meadows, orchards, fields, fences, woods, 
under woods, and all other of the privileges and appurtenances whatsoever to the same 
belonging or in any manner of ways appertaining. To have and to hold the aforesaid tracts 
of land and meadow with all and every of their privileges and appurtenances unto the said 
Joshua Gifford, his heirs and assigns for to the only use, benefit, and behoof of him the 
said Joshua Gifford his heirs and assigns forever. And the said Samuel Harvey for himself 
and his heirs doth covenant and agree to and with the said Joshua Gifford  his heirs and 
assigns that he hath good right to grant, bargain, and sell, convey all and every of the 
premises with the appurtenances in manner and form as aforesaid and the same in the 
quiet and peaceable possession and seizen of him the said Joshua Gifford his heirs and 
assigns against the just, right, lawful claim of all persons or demands whatsoever,
will forever hereafter warrant and defend the same as I the said Samuel Harvey, being 
fully seized of the premises and having lawful authority to grant, bargain, and sell the 
same. In witness whereof we the said Samuel Harvey and Lydia Harvey have hereunto set 
our hands and seals the day and year first above written, 1790 ~


 NOTE: Ordinarily there is a signature line here and the list of those present and then the 
acknowledgment taken by a commissioner or judge. I think those items continued on the 
next page and Monmouth Archives did not send me a photocopy of that page.