DEED: Title Abstract for Farm #3; Stillwater, Saratoga Co., New York

submitted 1999 by Leslie B. Potter (lbp@axs2000.net)

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Chain of Title for Farm # 3, Great Lott 16 1768 Philip Schuyler leases Farm #
3 to John Freeman.  (Schuyler Papers reel #10)

It was a freehold lease dated August 2, 1768 and was for three lives. John
Freeman, Efellanah Freeman * (presumably his wife), & Edward Freeman. * Thomas
Freeman, son of John, had a daughter named Efellanah.  The name was also
spelled Evalena and Efelana.

1777 Battle of Saratoga is fought on Farm # 3.  The British loose and burn
John Freeman's log house before retreating to Canada.

John Freeman fights with the British and retreats with them. 

1778 February 10, John Freeman dies in a small pox epidemic in St. Jean, P.Q.,
Canada.

1779 William Mead is the tenant on Farm # 3 with a term lease. (1779 Saratoga
District Tax List)

1782 William Mead enters into a freehold lease with General Schuyler for Farm
# 3 (Chancery Decree, Department of State Docket 35 page 312-315) 1804 General
Philip Schuyler dies and a decedent's estate is raised.

1805  General Schuyler's decedent's estate is settled by a Chancery Decree,
supra, and Catherine Schuyler Malcom inherits Farm # 3

Catheine Schuyler Malcom sells the farms in her Allotment under the Chancery
Decree, supra. Not all of her Grantees record their deeds.

1822 Thomas Leggett conveys title to Farm # 3 to William Leggett (Saratoga
County Deed Book RR at page 168)  {recorded in 1844} This deed does not
contain a “Being clause” and does not explain how Thomas acquired title to
Farm #3

William Leggett to Abraham Leggett 
1838 Abraham Leggett to Ebenezer Leggett (SCDB RR p 170) {Recorded in 1844}
1883 Ebenezer Leggett to Hesther A. Esmond (SCDB 162 p. 53) 
19__ Hester A. Esmond to Jennie E. Wight  
1923 Jennie W. Wight to Saratoga Battlefield Association (SCDB 327 p. 199) 
1927 Saratoga Battlefield Association to the State of New York (SCDB 341 p.
258)