Deed: Samuel Lyon to Jonathan Hill, Union Twp., Fayette Co., PA
 
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The deed conveying Samuel Lyon's land to Jonathan Hill reads as follows:
 
To all people to whom the presents shall come, I Samuel Lyon of Union Township 
in the County of Fayette and State of Pennsylvania, Yeoman, do fond greeting 
whereas the Honorable the Proprietarus of the State of Pennsylvania by their 
Survey under the Seal of the Land Office of the said State or Province bearing 
date the thirteenth day of June One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty Nine and 
numbered three thousand four hundred and thirty eight did grant to be surveyed 
unto me three hundred acres of land on the west side of Laurel Hill joining the 
land of Jonathan Gess and Isaac Pearce on the fork of the road to Fort Pitt and 
Redstone--as by the said order of survey remaining in the Surveyor General's 
Office of the said state or province more fully appears.
     
Now know ye that the said Samuel Lyon Senior for and in consideration of the sum
of six hundred pounds lawful money of Pennsylvania aforepaid to me in hand, paid
by the said Jonathan Hill the receipt whereof I hereby acknowledge, have 
granted, bargained, sold, released and confirmed and hereby do grant bargain, 
sell, release and confirm unto said Jonathan Hill his heirs and assigns all my 
estate right, title, interest, property claim and demand whatsoever of and to 
the said Location and Land thereby granted and surveyed or to be surveyed 
thereon together with all and singular the rights, members and appurtenances 
thereunto belonging or in anywise of right appertaining. Also all my estate, 
right, title, interest, property claim and demand whatsoever of and do a Warrant
for fifty acres of land adjoining to the same granted to John Lyon part of which
is already sold to John Murphy and to be distinguished by a conditional line 
made between me and my son Samuel Lyon [Jr.].
     
Also all my estate, right, title, interest, property claim and demand 
whatsoever of and to an improvement and quantity of land on the northeastward 
of the jurss? above described tract of land and adjacent to the same to have 
and to hold in fuid? sorral? treoniss? hereby granted with the appurtenances 
unto the said Johathan Hill his heirs and assigns to them--and their only use 
and behoaf? forever under and subject to the propreitaries or states and all 
other dues and demands to which the same are liable. In witness whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty of the day of January in the year of 
our lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty five.
     
Samuel (his mark) Lyon
     
Sealed and Delivered in the presence of us-
     
Charles Williams    Jacob Downerd
     
Fayette County - The Twenty Fifth Day of January Anno Domeni 1785 Before me the 
Subscriber one of the Justices of the Peace and of the Common Pleas for said 
County personally Samuel Lyon Senior the above named Grantor and Acknowledged 
the above written Deed Toll to be his act and deed and delivered the same to be 
recorded of such according to law - 
     
With my hand and seal the same day 
     
Alexander McClean
     
Recorded and compared with the original 24th Day of June 1785
 
Fort Pitt is now Pittsburg, and Redstone is now Brownsville.
 
Samuel Lyon obtained nearby land from Isaac Wood who settled it in 1753. It was located 
in the forks of the roads to Fort Pitt (later Pittsburg) and Redstone. That land was the 
object with a title controversy for many years with the Gist Family who finally prevailed. 
Samuel Lyon is recorded as living in Tyrone Township in 1772.