Deed: Henry Baker to Job Bunting, 1692: Bucks County

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        BUCKS CO., PA, DEED BOOK A-1, PP. 370-2.

	         Deed: Henry Baker to Job Bunting, 1692

	To all People before whom these presents shall come Know ye that
Henry Baker of the County of Bucks and Province of Pennsylvania
Yeoman for and in consideration of the sum of thirty five pounds
current mony of the aforesaid Province in hand paid and secured to be
paid by Job Bunting of the aforesaid County and Province Carpenter and
son in law to the said Henry Baker the receipt whereof the said Henry
Baker doth hereby acknowledge and thereof doth acquit and discharge
the said Job Bunting his heirs Executors and administrators forever
he the said Henry Baker hath granted aliened bargained sold enfeoffed
and confirmed and by these presents doth absolutely give grant bargain
sell enfeoff and confirm to the said Job Bunting his heirs and assigns
certain lands lying and being in Newtown in the aforesaid County of
Bucks Beginning at a corner marked tree standing at the head of the
Town Lot rear the land of William Buckman thence by a line of Marked
trees fifty five rods and three quarters of rod to a corner marked
tree thence by the side of the said Buckmans Town Lot by a line of
marked trees South and by East one hundred forty five rods to a
corner marked tree thence West and by South fifty five rods and three
quarters of a rod to a corner marked tree thence West and by North by
a line of marked trees twenty rods to a corner marked tree thence
West twenty one degrees Southerly two hundred and ninety rods to a
corner marked tree standing by Neshaminy Creek side thence up the
several courses of the said Creek to a corner marked tree standing in
the aforesaid Buckmans line thence along the said line East four
degrees Northerly 154 poles to a corner marked tree being the place
of Beginning.  As also one piece of meadow land Beginning at a corner
tree in the line of Thomas Constables land thence by a line of marked
trees West forty degrees Northerly eighty six rods to a corner marked
tree thence by a line of marked trees South seventeen degrees Westerly
seventy eight rods to a corner marked tree standing by Neshaminy Creek
side aforesaid thence down the several courses of the said Creek to a
corner marked tree standing in the aforesaid Constables line thence
by the said line North five degrees Easterly forty two pole to a
corner marked tree being the place of Beginning Which said Meadow
land contains and is laid out for twenty six acres and the other
parcel of land first mentioned contains and is laid out for two
hundred twenty and two acres The whole of both parcels being laid out
for two hundred forty eight acres of land which said land is part of a
tract of land granted to the said Henry Baker by a Deed from John 
Rowland executed the eight day of the tenth Month one thousand six
hundred ninety and one and all the estate right title interest use
posession property claim and demand whatsoever of him the said Henry
Baker of in and to the same premises.  To Have and To Hold the said
two hundred twenty and two acres of land and the said twenty six
acres of meadow land and premisses with the appurtenances and
improvements thereon and every part and parcel of the same to the
said Job Bunting his heirs and assigns to the only use and behoof of
the said Job Bunting his heirs and assigns forever At or under the
quit rents due or to become due to the Chief Lord of the soil of the
said land and premises And the said Henry Baker doth covenant promise
and grant for himself and his heirs that they the said two hundred
forty eight acres of land and premises to him the said Job Bunting
and his heirs and against all other persons claiming and to claim by
from or under him them or any of them or by his or their or any of
their means privity procurement or consent shall and will warrant and
by these presents forever defend And that the said Henry Baker hath
not done acted nor suffered any act matter cause or thing whatsoever
whereby the said granted premises or any part thereof is or can shall
or may be by any means lawfully impeached In witness whereof the said
Henry Baker hath hereunto put his hand and seal the eighth day of the
fourth month being the fourth year of the Reign of William and Mary
King and Queen of England &c and twelfth year of the Proprietorys
Government one thousand six hundred ninety and two.
							Henry Baker (seal)
	
	Sealed and Delivered in the presence of us 

Samuel Beakes 
Edmond
Lovett 
Abraham Cox 

the mark A of

	(the place of the County seal) The 15 day of the Seventh Month one
thousand six hundred ninety and two the within Conveyance was by the
within named Henry Baker acknowledged and delivered in open Court in
the County of Bucks unto the within named Job Bunting.

	Certified under my hand and seal of the County   Phineas Pemberton
Cl. Com.

	Recorded the 21 day 7th month 1692.

NOTES

	The deed is acknowledged in the Court of Common Pleas at the session
of the "14th day of the 7th month, 1692," at pp. 170, 267, Colonial
Society, BUCKS CO. COURTS, which states:

	A deed in fee of 248 acres of land dated the 8th day of the 4th
month 1692 was acknowledged & delivered by Henry Baker grantor to Job
Bunting grantee