Andrew Bell to David Harvey & Britton Riddle 5 Oct 1814

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

Deed Book X, page 480

Andrew Bell to David Harvey & Britton Riddle, 5 Oct 1814

Deed Poll ~  This Indenture made the fifth day of October in the year of our Lord one 
thousand eight hundred and fourteen between Andrew Bell of Perth Amboy of the one 
part and David Harvey and Britton Riddle , both of the Township of Howell in the 
County of Monmouth and Eastern division of the State of New Jersey of the other part.
Witnesseth that the said Andrew Bell for and in consideration of the sum of seventy five 
dollars to him in hand paid by the said David Harvey and Britton Riddle, the receipt 
whereof is hereby acknowledged, hath granted, bargained, & sold and by these presents 
doth grant, bargain, sell, release, enfeoff, convey and confirm unto the said David Harvey 
and Britton Riddle, their heirs and assigns forever all that tract of land situate, lying, and 
being between Manasquan and Shark Rivers in the Township of Howell in the County of 
Monmouth and Eastern division of the State of New Jersey. Beginning at a pine sapling, 
about six inches through, marked on four sides with a blaze and one notch under each 
blaze, standing at the head of a small branch that runs into Shark River about half a chain 
Eastward of road esteemed to be three quarters of a mile Northerly from Stephen 
Harvey’s dwelling house, thence (1) North seventy one degrees East forty chains, thence 
(2) South 21 degrees East thirteen chains, thence (3) South seventy one degrees West 
thirty eight chains and twenty links, thence (4) North twenty nine degrees and thirty 
minutes West thirteen chains to the place of beginning. Containing fifty acres strict 
measure ~ in as full and ample manner as the same was surveyed to the said Andrew Bell 
as by a return thereof  dated the twentieth day of October 1813. 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 in 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 and Britton 
Riddle, their heirs and assigns, to the only proper use, benefit, and behoof  of the said 
David Harvey and Britton Riddle their 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 and Britton Riddle, their heirs and assigns, 
that he the said Andrew Bell is lawfully seized of the right of  location on which the 
aforesaid tract of land was surveyed and returned and hath good right to grant and convey 
the same in manner aforesaid and the same right of location in the quiet and peaceable 
possession of the said David Harvey and Britton Riddle their heirs and assigns against the 
lawful claim and demand of all persons whatsoever he the said Andrew Bell will forever 
warrant and defend. In witness whereof the parties to these presents have interchangeable 
set their hands and seals the day and year first above written.
Sealed and delivered in the ~        		Andrew Bell      (Seal)
presence of   Corlis Lloyd

Be it remembered that on the eighteenth day of October in the year of our Lord eighteen 
hundred and fourteen personally appeared before me, William Lloyd, one of the Judges of 
the Inferior Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Monmouth, Andrew Bell, 
the grantor of the within instrument of writing named, and acknowledged that he signed, 
sealed, and delivered the same as his voluntary act and deed for the use and purposes 
therein mentioned. Taken and acknowledged before me the day and year above written.
								William Lloyd

Received and recorded the 18th day of October 1814.  Compared.          C. Lloyd, Clerk