PATENT: Joseph KELLEY, Sr., 1770, Cumberland Valley Township, Bedford County, PA

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JOSEPH KELLEY, SR., LAND PATENT

Cumberland Valley Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania

Cumberland now Joseph Kelly Adam McCarty 223 1/2 acs, & allowances of 6 per 
cent, No. 1381, A-63.192, Returned & Recd 29th Nov 1770, by Warrant to Joseph 
Kelly dated the 29th Instant. Patented Nov 29 1770, To Warrantee. 1155 Butler
28th Nov 1770 Cumberland, 223.80, Joseph Kelly, Returned & Rec'd 29th Nov 1770
1770, No. 63, November 29th, on Everts Creek, Cumberland County, 223 Acres, 80 
Perches, Joseph Kelly, Returned & ca, 29th November 1770

By the PROPRIETARIES.

Pennsylvania, ff. Whereas on the Application No. 1381 of Adam McCarty the twenty 
seventh Day of September 1766 an Order was issued for surveying to him three 
hundred Acres of Land on the waters of Everts Creek in Cumberland County; And 
Whereas by our Surveyor General's Certificate it appears, that in pursuance of 
the said Order, a Survey hath since been made of a Tract of two hundred & twenty 
three Acres and 80 perches of Land, agreeable to the said Application and Order 
of Survey, and WHEREAS the said Adam McCarty conveyed the sd Tract unto Joseph 
Kelly who paid the full Consideration Money for the same, at the Rate of Five 
Pounds Sterling per Hundred Acres, as appears by our Receiver General's Receipt 
now produced, and agrees to pay to our Use the yearly Quit-Rent of One Penny 
Sterling for every Acre thereof for ever: THESE are therefore to authorize and 
require you to accept into your Office the said Survey of the sd tract of Land, 
and make Return thereof into our Secretary's Office, in Order for Confirmation 
to the Said Joseph Kelly on the Terms aforesaid. And for your so doing this 
shall be your sufficient Warrant. GIVEN under by Hand and the Seal of the Land-
Office, by Virtue of certain Powers from the said Proprietaries, of 
Philadelphia, this twenty eighth Day of November One Thousand Seven Hundred and 
Seventy. To John Lukens, Esq; Surveyor-General. Signed: John Penn

Patent of Joseph Kelly, Thomas Penn, and Richard Penn, Esquires, True and 
absolute Proprietaries and Governors in Chief of the Province of Pennsylvania 
and Counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex upon Delaware; To all unto whom 
these presents shall come, Greeting WHEREAS In consequence of the application of 
Adam McCarty No. 1381 entered the twenty seventh day of September 1766 for 250 
acres of land on the waters of Everts Creek in the county of Cumberland a survey 
hath been made of this tract of land herein after mentioned and intended to be 
hereby granted and Whereas in pursuance of a Warrant dated the twenty eighth day 
of November instant requiring our Surveyor General to accept the said Survey 
into his Office and make return thereof into our Secretary's Office in order for 
confirmation to Joseph Kelly unto whom the said Adam McCarty by deed conveyed 
the same on the ___ in the same Warrant mentioned he hath accordingly made 
return thereof thereby certifying the description bounds and limits of the land 
as aforesaid surveyed to be as follows Vizt. Situate as aforesaid called BEAVERS 
BOTTOM Beginning at a marked White Oak thence by George Woods land north fifteen 
degrees east ninety five perches to a marked Ash North forty seven degrees West 
one hundred and sixty six perches to a marked white oak thence by a mountain 
North nineteen degrees and a half East one hundred and twenty seven perches to a 
post thence by ___ Clarkson's lands South forty four degrees East three hundred 
and seventy five perches to a marked white oak thence by vacant land South 
seventy five degrees West two hundred and fourteen perches to the place of 
Beginning containing two hundred twenty three acres and a half and allowances of 
six per cent for roads & . . . .As by the said Warrant application and survey 
remaining in our Surveyor Generals Office and from thence certified into our 
Secretary's Office as aforesaid may appear.

NOW at the Instance and Request of the said Joseph Kelly that we would be 
pleased to grant him a Confirmation of the fame, KNOW YE, That in consideration 
of the Sum of Eleven pounds three Shillings and six pence Sterling __ lawful 
money of Pennsylvania to our use paid by the said Joseph Kelly {the Receipt 
whereof we hereby acknowledge, and therof do acquit, and forever discharge the 
said Joseph Kelly and his heirs and Assigns, by these Presents} and of the 
yearly Quitrent herein after mentioned and reserved, WE HAVE given granted, 
released and confirmed, and by these Presents, for us, our Heirs and Successors, 
Do give, grant, release and confirm unto the said Joseph Kelly his Heirs and 
Assigns, the said Two hundred & twenty three acres and a half of Land, as the 
fame now set forth, bounded and limited as aforesaid; with all Mines, Minerals, 
Quarries, Meadows, Marshes, Savannahs, Swamps, Cripples, Woods, Underwoods, 
Timber, Trees, Ways, Waters, Water-Courses, Liberties, profits, Commodities, 
Advantages, Hereditaments and Appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging, or 
in any wife appertaining, and lying within the Bounds and Limits aforesaid, 
{Three full and Fifths Parts of all Royal Mines, ___ from all Deductions and 
Reprisals for digging and refining the same, and also One Fifth Part of the Ore 
of all other Mines delivered at the Pit's Mouth only excepted and hereby 
reserved} and also free Leave, Right and Liberty, to and from the said Joseph 
Kelly his Heirs and Assigns to hawk hunt, fifth and fowl in and upon the hereby 
granted Land and Premises, or upon any Part thereof. To Have and To Hold the 
said tract of Land and Premises hereby granted [except as before excepted] with 
their appurtenances unto the said Joseph Kelly his Heirs and Assigns, to the 
only Use and Behoof of the said Joseph Kelly his Heirs and Assigns, for ever: To 
Be Holden of us, our Heirs and Successors, proprietaries of Pennsylvania as of 
our Manor of __ in the county of Cumberland aforesaid, in fee and common Soccage 
by Fealty? Only, in Lieu of all other Services Yielding and Paying therefore 
yearly unto us, our Heirs and Successors, at the Town of Carlisle in the said 
County at or upon the First Day of March in every year, from the first Day of 
March last One penny6 Sterling for every Acre of the fame, or Value thereof in 
Coin current, according as the Exchange shall then be between our said Province 
and the city of London, to such Person or Persons as shall from time to time be 
appointed to receive the fame. AND in caf‚ of Non-payment thereof, within Ninety 
Days next after the fame shall become due, that then it shall and may be lawful 
for us, our Heirs and Successors, our and their Receiver or Receivers, into the 
upon the hereby granted Land and Premises to re-enter and the fame to Hold and 
possess until the said Quitrent __ all Arrears thereof, together with the 
charges accuring by Means of such Non-payment and Re-entry, be fully paid and 
discharged. WITNESS John Penn Esquire Lieutenant_Governor of the said Province, 
who by Virtue of certain Powers and Authorities to him for this Purpose, ixter? 
Alia, granted by the said Proprietaries hath hereunto set his hand and caused 
the Great Seal of the said Province to be hereunto affixed, at Philadelphia, 
this twenty ninth Day of November in the Year of our Lord One-Thousand Seven 
Hundred and seventy The Eleventh Year of the Reign of King George the third __ 
__ Great Britian & c and the fifty third year of the said Proprietaries 
Government. John Penn, Recorded 30th November 1770