Land: Mortgage satisfaction, Sarah Minerva Steinberger, 1898: Quakertown, Buck Co, PA

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Deed 286 p. 325-327  Bucks Co, PA

Petition and Decree Court of Common Pleas to Sarah Minerva Steinberger.

To the Honorable Harman Yerkes, President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas
of Bucks County. The Petition of Sarah Minerva Steinberger of the Borough of
Quakertown County aforesaid, respectfully rep resents: That she the said
Sarah Minerva Steinberger is seized in fee of a contain messuage tenement and
tract of Forty-four Square perches of land situated in the Borough of
Quakertown aforesaid and bounded and described as follows, to wit. Beginning
at a stone a corner of land belonging to the estate of Edward Thomas,
deceased, thence b said land south eleven and a half degrees west three and
two hundredths perches to a stone a corner of Hannah Whiles land late of said
Edward Thomas thence by said land north eighty three and three quarters
degrees west fourteen and sixty four hundredths perches to a stone a corner
in a line of Abraham Barndts land thence by said land north eleven and a half
degrees east three and two hundredths perches to a corner of land late of
Samuel J. Miller, now belonging to the estate of Samuel J. Levick deceased,
thence by said land south eighty-three and three quarters degrees east
fourteen and sixty four hundredths perches to the place of Beginning.  That a
mortgage upon said premises was given and executed on the 27th day of March,
A.D. 1867 by Amelia Heitz and her husband Michael Heitz which said Amelia
Heitz was at that time seized in fee of the aforesaid premises to Jacob
Sweitzgood of Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia county to secure the payment of one
hundred and fifty dollars a b the record of said Mortgage recorded July 16,
1867, in Mortgage Book No. 46 page 425, etc, in the Recorders Office of Bucks
County aforesaid will more fully appear that the whole of the principal sum of
said Mortgage and all interest did thereon was fully paid by the said Amelia
Heitz at or about the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy two; that
the said Jacob Sweitzgood failed then as well as subsequently to enter
satisfaction of the said mortgage upon the record, and that he the said Jacob
Sweitzgood as well as his Executor, Samuel F. Scheetz has been dead for many
years and that there is no person having authorized to enter satisfaction of
the said mortgage upon the record.  Therefore your petitioner showing to the
court these facts and also that the payment of the said mortgage has been
made upwards of two years since prays your honorable court that the Sheriff
may be directed to make publication of the filing of this petition and
requiring answer thereto at the next term of court, and that at the aid next
term or at some subsequent term due proof being made of the payment of said
mortgage in full as hereinbefore stated the Court may order and decree that
satisfaction thereof may be entered by the Recorded of Bucks County under and
in pursuance of the Act of Assembly in such call made and provided, Approved
March 31, 1823 and your petitioner will ever pray, etc.

			Sarah Minerva Steinberger
			Petitioner


Bucks County SS
	Sarah Minerva Steinberger being duly sworn according to law deposes and 
says she is the above named petitioner and that the facts set forth in the
foregoing petition are true and correct to the best of her knowledge and
belief. Sworn to and subscribed before me This Fourth day of June 1898.

			Sarah Steinberger
		J.L. Heacock J.P.

In the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County.  In the matter of the petition
of Sarah Minerva Steinberger for a decree to enter satisfaction upon the
record of an Indenture of Mortgage upon premises situate in the Borough of
Quakertown, County of Bucks, aforesaid: And now, August 22, 1898, the Sheriff
of Bucks County having returned that he was unable to find the said Jacob
Sweitzgood or his legal representatives or the holder or holders of the
within mentioned mortgage in his bailiwick and that in obedience to the said
order of Court to the said Sheriff directed a notice of the facts set forth
in the foregoing petition was advertised once a week for four successive
weeks after the presentation of the said petition in the Quakertown Free
Press, a weekly newspaper published at Quakertown County aforesaid, and once
a week for four successive weeks in the Central News, a weekly newspaper
published at Perkasie County aforesaid as appeared by copies of said
advertisements and affidavits of their publication annexed to the return of
the said Sheriff.  And no person appearing to answer the said petition as
aforesaid and the Court being satisfied of the truth of the allegations of
the said petition it is on motion of Albert H Kittleman pro petitioner,
ordered and decreed that the prayer of said petition be granted and that
satisfaction shall be entered by the Reorder of Deeds of Bucks County on the
record of the mortgage given by Amelia Heitz and her husband Michael Heitz,
which said Amelia Heitz was at that time seized of the hereinafter described
premises to Jacob Sweitzgood dated the 27th day of March A.D. 1867, and
recorded in the office of the Recorder or Deeds in and for the County of
Bucks in Mortgage Book No. 46 page 425 etc to secure the sum of One Hundred
and Fifty-Dollars upon all that certain messuage tenement and tract of
forty-four square perches of land situate in the Borough of Quakertown
aforesaid and bounded and described as follows to with Beginning at a stone
corner of land belonging to the Estate of Edward Thomas deceased, thence by
said land south eleven and a half degrees west three and two hundredths
perches to a stone a corner of Hannah Whiles land late of said Edward Thomas,
thence by said land north eighty-three and three quarters degrees west
fourteen and sixty four hundredths perches to a stone a corner in a line of
Abraham Barndts land thence by said land north eleven and a half degrees
east, three and two hundredths perches to a corner of land late of Samuel J.
Miller, now belonging to the estate of Samuel J. Levick deceased thence by
said land south eighty-three and three quarters degrees east fourteen and
sixty four hundredths perches to the place of beginning; on payment of the
costs due relative to the entry of said satisfaction of said mortgage or any
proceedings thereon, and upon presentation of a certified copy of the
petition and decree of said case to be filed by said recorder of record,
which said satisfaction so entered and filing of said record shall forever
thereafter defeat, release and discharge said mortgage, and shall likewise
for all actions brought or to be brought thereon as fully and effectually to
all interests and purposes as if the satisfaction had been entered by the
legal holder or holders of the said mortgage.
						By the Court
						Harman Yerkes
							Prect. Judge


Bucks County SS
		I hereby certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of
the Petition and decree of Court as they remain on file and of  Record in this
office. Done at Doylestown this Twenty-fourth day of  August A. D.1898.

				Emil W. Haring	Court	 Recorded, August 24, 1898
		Prothonotary	  Seal