Stoffel Longstreet et ux to Robert Drummond 21 Dec 1749 Contributed to USGenWeb Archives by Howard C. Kelley hckelley@lcc.net USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material.These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organizations. From: New Jersey State Archives 185 West State Street, CN 307 Trenton, New Jersey, 08625 Deed Book G-3, pages 469-472 Stoffel Longstreet and Abigail his wife to Robert Drummond , 21 December 1749 This Indenture made the twenty first day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand and Seven hundred and forty nine Between Stoffel Longstreet of the Town of Shrewsbury in the County of Monmouth and Eastern Division of the Province of New Jersey, yeoman, and Abigail his wife of the one part, and Robert Drummond of the Town and County aforesaid, yeoman, of the other part. Witnesseth that he the said Stoffel Longstreet for and in Consideration of the Sum of Four hundred and fifty Pounds Current Money at Eight Shillings the ounce to him in hand paid by the said Robert Drummond the Receipt whereof he the said Stoffel Longstreet doth hereby acknowledge and of and from every part and parcel thereof Doth Acquit, Release, and discharge the said Robert Drummond his Heirs, Executors and Administrators and Every of them forever by these Presents wherewith he is well Satisfied and Contented Hath Granted, Bargained, and Sold and by these Presents doth fully, freely, and absolutely Grant Bargain and Sell, Alien, Enfeoffe, Release, Assure, Convey, and Confirm unto him the said Robert Drummond his Heirs and Assigns forever All that Tract of Land Situate and being in the said Shrewsbury at a place called Lock Arbor being a Neck of Land Called the Iron well neck Between the branches of White's'Pond Beginning at the head of a Small Gully on the Westerly side of the Northerly Branch of said White's'pond, called Hogswamp Brook a Double Dogwood tree marked on four Sides Standing within a Rod from said Beginning Southwest from it Thence South forty Seven degrees and thirty minutes West Fourteen Chain and forty Eight Links thence South Forty degrees East Twenty nine Chain to a Chesnut Saplin marked on four sides, a white oak tree within a Rod of it , being also so marked , both said Trees Standing on the Westerly Side of the head of a Cove or Creek called the Iron Well Creek Running into said White's pond near a well or Spring at the head of said Cove Called the Ironwell Thence on the same Course to the East side of said Cove, thence following the said Iron well Cove or Creek to the place where it Runs into said White's Pond, Thence up the said Northerly Branch of said White's Pond to the Mouth of the first mentioned Gully thence up the same to where it began Bounded Westerly by Gawen Drummond ( now Robert Drummond ) Southerly by him and said Iron Well Creek Easterly and Northerly by the said Northerly Branch and the first mentioned Gully, which said Tract of Land was Conveyed to the said Stoffel Longstreet by Deed of Bargain and Sale from Gawin Drummond dated the thirtieth day of January one thousand and Seven Hundred and forty four. Together also with all and manner of Buildings, Improvements, Trees, Woods, Waters, Runs, Springs, Fences, fields, Liberties, advantages, Hereditaments, and appurtenances whatsoever to the said Tract belonging or any ways appertaining with all the Right, Title, Interest, Property, Possession, use, Claim, and Demand whatsoever of him the said Stoffel Longstreet both in Law and Equity and either of them of in or to the same and every part thereof To Have and To Hold the above Granted Tract of Land as above Bounded and Described with all and Singular the Previledges and appurtenances of Right or Custom thereunto belonging unto him the said Robert Drummond his Heirs and Assigns and to his and there(sic) only use and uses, benefit, advantage, and behoof forever, And he the said Stoffel Longstreet for himself his Heirs, Executors and Administrators and Every of them doth Covenant, Promise, Grant, and agree to and with him the said Robert Drummond his Heirs and Assigns firmly by these Presents that he the said Stoffel Longstreet at the time of the Sealing and Delivery of these presents hath in himself of his own Right full Power and Absolute Lawful Authority to Grant, Bargain, and Sell the above Bargained Tract of Land as above bounded and Described with the appurtenances unto him the said Robert Drummond his Heirs and Assigns forever, And that the same and every part thereof now is and Shall forever hereafter Remain free and Clear unto him the said Robert Drummond his Heirs and Assigns from all former Gifts, Grants, Sales, Leases, Exchanges, Mortgages, Judgments, Attachments, Executions, or any other trouble, Charge, or Incumbrance whatsoever in the Title or Possession thereof committed or done by him the said Stoffel Longstreet so as to Alter, Change, Charge, Limit, defeat, Determine, Mark Void the above Bargain and Sale, And that the above Bargained Premises and Every part of them with the appurtenances unto him the said Robert Drummond his Heirs and Assigns in their Quiet and Peaceable Possession and Seizen and to his and their only use, benefit, Profit, and behoof against the Just Right Lawful Claim and demand of all Persons Lawfully Laying claim thereto, or to any part thereof Shall and will warrant and Defend forever hereafter by Virtue of these Presents, In Witness whereof the Parties first above named to these Presents have hereunto Set their hands and Seals the day and year first above written , And in the twenty third year of his Majesty King George the Second's Reign, Year 1749 Signed Sealed and Delivered in the Stoffel Longstreet (Seal) Presence of John Robins, Abigail Longstreet (Seal) William Shaw Be it Remembered that on the Eighteenth day of September1773 Personally appeared before me James Lawrence, Esq., one of the Judges of the Inferior Courts of Common Pleas for the County of Monmouth, Stoffel Longstreet and Abigail Longstreet , the within mentioned and Grantors who did acknowledge that they did Sign Seal and deliver the within Deed or Instrument of writing for the Uses and Purposes therein mentioned and the said Abigail Longstreet being Separately and apart Examined from her said Husband did Acknowledge that she did Seal and Deliver the same of her own Voluntary Will without any threats or Compulsion of her said Husband. Taken and Acknowledged the day and year above said before me James Lawrence Recorded 26 May 1774 Examined, agrees with Original Bowes ??????? NOTE: 5 April 1996. We see from this deed and two others that Stoffel Longstreet and wife Abigail bought two tracts of land in Shrewsbury Township, Monmouth County, NJ, 30 Jan 1745, which tracts were near to land owned by Abigail's father , Thomas Woolley. They paid 794 Pounds. They then sold the tract nearest her father's land to Amos White for 202 Pounds 10 Shillings, 14 March, 1745. They sold the second tract of land to Robert Drummond for 450 Pounds, 8 Shillings, 21 Dec 1749. Thus we see they lost 141 Pounds and 2 Shillings on their first land transactions. They then bought land and mills in the Allentown, NJ area, 10 May, 1750. I believe they lived there for the rest of their life. Howard C. Kelley