DEED: Peter & Helena Hallenbeck - William N. Groesbeck;   Montgomery co., NY  

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half of lot #24 and part of #23 Daniel Claus Patent, Mayfield
Written: February 3, 1804
Recorded: November 19, 1804

This indenture made the third day of February, one thousand eight hundred and
four, between Peter Hallenbeck of Mayfield in the County of Montgomery and
State of New York and Helena his wife of the first part, and William N.
Groesbeck of the town of Schooktokook, in the County of Rensselaer of the
second part, witnesseth that the said parties of the first part, for and in
consideration of the sum of one thousand dollars, to them in hand paid, by the
said party of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby confessed and
acknowledged: Have granted, bargained, sold, remised, released, aliened, and
confirmed. And by these presents do grant, bargain, sell, remise, release,
alien, and confirm to the said party of the second part, and to his heirs and
assigns forever, All those two certain pieces or parcels of land, situated in
the town of Mayfield aforesaid, and in a patent granted to Daniel Claus in the
year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy, and the twenty ninth
day of September. The first whereof is the last half of lot number twenty four
in said patent, and begins at the northeast corner of said lot, and runs from
there as the compass pointed in the year 1788 West twenty six chains and
fifteen links to the middle thereof, thence southerly ..... thirty two chains
to the South bounds thereof, then on the said South bounds East twenty five
chains and fifteen links to the East bounds thereof, and thence northerly, on
the said East bounds, thirty two chains to the place of beginning, being the
equal half of said lot number twenty four, be the same more or less. And the
second piece or parcel is a part of lot No. XXIII in the same patent and
begins at a stake one chain West of the bridge on the main road and runs
thence north eighty eight degrees East ten chains, thence South seventy eight
degrees West five chains and sixty links, thence to the place of beginning,
containing one acre and one quarter of land. Together with all hereditaments
and appurtenances thereunto belonging, or in any wise appurtaining, and the
reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits
thereof, and all the estate, right, title, interest, claim and demand
whatsoever of the said parties of the first part, either in law or equity, of,
in and to the above bargained premises, with the said hereditaments and
appurtanences. To have and to hold the said parcels of land to the said party
of the second part his heirs and assigns, to the sole and only proper use,
benefit, and behoof of the said party of the second part, his heirs and
assigns forever. And the said parties of the first part for themselves, their
heirs, executors, and administrators, do covenant, grant, promise and agree to
and with the said party of the second part , his heirs and assigns, the above
bargained premises in the quiet and peaceable profession of the said party of
the second part, his heirs and assigns, will warrant and by these presents
forever defend, the said above mentioned and described premises against all
and every person or persons lawfully claiming, or to claim the whole or any
part thereof. 

In witness thereof the said parties of the first part have hereunto set their
hands and seals, the day and year first above written.

Peter Hallenbeck (Seal)
Lana Hallenbeck (Seal)

Note the word "Twenty" between the fourth and eleventh lines interlined before
sealing these presents. Sealed and delivered in the presence of Abraham
Ronyon, Nicholas Ronyon. 

Montgomery County on the nineteenth day of November 1804 came before me John
McCarthy, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the said
County, Peter Hallenbeck and Lanah his wife and they severally acknowledged to
have signed, sealed, and delivered the within deed, as their voluntary act and
deed, for the uses and purposes therein mentioned, and it is proved to my
satisfaction by the oath of William Jackson, a person to me well known, that
the said Peter Hallenbeck and Lanah his wife, who made the acknowledgments
before me are the persons described in and intended as the grantors in the
within deed, and that he knew them to be the same. And the said Lanah in a
private examination apart from her husband acknowledged that she executed the
same freely without any fear or compulsion of her husband, and finding no
material erasures or interlineations but those, I do allow the same to be
recorded. Jn. McCarthy. Recorded the nineteenth day of November 1804 by me,
(illegible) F. Yates, clerk.

Additional Comments:
William mortgaged the property twice and paid it off by 1807, but was back in
Rensselaer County by July 1810. However, I could find no record in Montgomery
County of him either selling the property or losing it. He again lived in
Montgomery County in the 1820's, but near Lassellsville, so he must have
transferred title at some time, but there seems to be no record of it.