DEED: William REED (High Sheriff) to John & Catherine STIFFLER, to John & Christian GIBSON, 1854, 1855, Duncansville, Blair County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Jan Kuhn kuhn_j@firn.edu February 20, 2009, 10:11 am Copyright 2009. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/blair/ _________________________________________ Assigned To: John & Christian Gibson Town of Duncansville Written: May 4, 1854 Recorded: March 20, 1855 Blair County Deed Book F page 63 Deed Poll William Reed Esqr High Sheriff of the County of Blair to John Stiffler To all to whom these presents shall come, I William Reed, Esqr, High Sheriff of the County of Blair in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, send Greeting: Whereas John Stiffler lately in the Court of Common Pleas for Blair County, before the Judges of the same Court, by Judgment of the same Court did recover, against Simon Stover as well a certain debt of one hundred and thirty eight dollars and fifty cents lawful money of Pennsylvania and also the sum of one dollar and twenty two and a half cents like money which to the said John Stiffler in our same court was adjudged for his damages which he sustained by occasion of the detention of that date. And whereas by a writ of the Commonwealth aforesaid Fieri Facias issued out of the Court aforesaid, Tested the third day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty three and to me directed, I was commanded that of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of the said Simon Stover in my bailiwick I should cause to be made and levied the debt and damages aforesaid, which the said John Stiffler had recovered against the said Simon Stover as aforesaid and that I should have that money before the Judges of the Court aforesaid the first Monday in February (then) next to render to the said John Stiffler for his debt and damages aforesaid and the said writ by virtue of which said writ of Fieri Facias of the lands and tenements of the said Simon Stover (he having no goods and chattels in my bailiwick wherewith to satisfy the said execution) I seized and took in execution All that certain lot of ground situate in the town of Duncansville, Blair county, fronting sixty feet on the Huntingdon Cambria and Indiana Turnpike and running back one hundred and eighty feet to an alley, bounded on the east by lot of ground owned by John Stiffler, and on the west by lot of ground owned by James Rossan and whereas, Simon Stove, the defendant in the said writ, confessed amicable condemnation of the aforesaid Real Estate, which said amicable condemnation to the said writ annexed as aforesaid I return to the Judges aforesaid and that the said premises remain in my hands unsold for want of buyers. And whereas (afterwards, a writ of benditioni Exponas of the said Commonwealth issued out of the said court aforesaid, tested the second day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four, and to me directed) I was commanded that the lands and tenements aforesaid so taken in execution as aforesaid, I should expose to sell, and that I should have the money thereof before the Judges aforesaid the fourth Monday of April (then) next, to render to he said John Stiffler for his debt and damages in the said writ mentioned, and the said writ and whereas, I the said sheriff having given due and public notice of the time and place of sale, did on the twenty sixth day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four, expose the lands, tenements and premises to sale by public vendue or outcry, and sold the before mentioned described lot of ground to John Stiffler, of Claysburg, for the sum of one hundred and eighty dollars lawful money of Pennsylvania he being the highest and best bidder and that the highest and best price bidder for the same. Now Know Ye! That I the said William Reed, High Sheriff of the said county, for and in consideration of the aforesaid sum of one hundred and eighty dollars lawful money of Pennsylvania to me in hand paid by the said John Stiffler, at or before the ensealing and delivery hereof the receip [sic] where of is hereby acknowledged have granted bargained sold, and by these presents according to the directions and by force and virtue of the said recited writs and of the laws of Pennsylvania in such case made and provided, Do grant, bargain and sell unto the said John Stiffler his heirs and assigns all that the said before mentioned and described lot of ground together with all and singular the buildings, barns, stables, orchards, improvements, rights, liberties, privileges, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging, or in any wise appertaining, and the reversions and remainders and the rents, issues and profits thereof. To have and to hold the said described lot of ground and premises hereby granted or mentioned and intended so to be with the appurtenances unto the said John Stiffler, his heirs and assigns to the only proper use benefit and behoof of him the said John Stiffler his heirs and assigns forever, as fully and for such estate and under such rents and conditions as the said Simon Stover had and held the same at the time of judgment aforesaid to the form and effect of the said recited writs and the acts of assembly of Pennsylvania in such case made and provided. In witness whereof I the said William Reed, High Sheriff of the said County of Blair have hereunto set my hand and seal this fourth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four. William Reed Sheriff Sealed and delivered In presence of E Hammond Thomas Burgoon Received on the day last mentioned of the before mentioned John Stiffler the sum of one hundred and eighty dollars lawful money of Pennsylvania, the full consideration before mentioned. William Reed Shrff Attest E Hammond Acknowledged in the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Blair before the Judges of the said court by the said William Reed Esqr Sheriff of the said County of Blair, the fourth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four. In testimony, whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said court the same day and year. H. McLeur Recorded Mar 30 1855 by (no signature) Assignment John Stiffler & wife to John & Christian Gibson (Endorsed on the foregoing Deed) Know all men by these presents, That John Stiffler the grantee within named and Catherine his wife for the consideration of the sum of two hundred dollars to them in hand paid by John & Christian Gibson at and before the ensealing and delivery hereof, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have granted bargained sold assighned [sic] and set over unto the said John and Christian Gibson their heirs and assighns [sic] all the within mentioned message [sic] and lot of ground together with all the urights [sic] and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belongs or in enywise [sic] appertaining and the reversions and remainders rents isues [sic] and profits thereof. To have and to hold the said Message [sic] or lot of ground herein mentioned and the appurtenances unto the said John and Christian Gibson, their heirs and assighns [sic] to the only proper use and behoof of the said John and Christian Gibson their heirs and assighns [sic] forever and the said John Stiffler, his heirs the said granted and assighns [sic] against him the said Stiffler and his heirs and against every other person whomsoever lawfully claiming or to claim by from or under him, them or any of them shall and will warrant and defend. In witness whereof we have set our hands and seals this first day of February AD 1855. John Stiffler Catherine X (her mark) Stiffler Attest Daniel Shock On the day of the date of the foregoing Indenture Received of the within named John and Christian Gibson the sum of two hundred dollars in full of the consideration therein mentioned. John Stiffler Attest Abraham Koon Blair County SS Before me one of the Justices of the Peace in and for said county personally appeared the above named John Stiffler & Caherine [sic] his wife and acknowledged the above Indenture or assighment [sic] to be their act and deed and desired the same to be Recorded as such. The said Catherine being of full age and by me examined separate and apart from her husband, and the contents first made known to her declare that she did of her own free will and acord [sic] seal and as her act and deed deliver the said Indenture without any compulsion of her said husband. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 1st day of February AD 1855. Daniel Shock JP Recorded March 20, 1855 by (no signature) This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/pafiles/