Northumberland Co. Deeds 1899 Cameron Twp, PA (estate settlement) Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Carolyn Taby Larkins. Larkline@aol.com USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file within by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. Northumberland County, PA Deeds - Grantors Brennan, Maria, et al bk 125 p.353 Release and Power of Attorney, Elias Derck et al. to John P. Francis Ent. March 7th 1899 (agreement dated 17 July 1897) Know all men by these Presents that we, Elias Derck, Israel Derck, Sarah Schwartz (nee Hinger), and Henry Schwartz, her husband. Mary Reichwein (nee Hinger) and John Reichwein, her husband, Andrew Weikel, Sarah E. Miller (nee Weikel), Susannah Brown (nee Weikel), and Erisman [?] Brown, her husband, Elizabeth Kerstetter (nee Hinger) and Simon P. Kerstetter, her husband, Catharine Kerstetter (nee Hinger) and Aaron Kerstetter, her husband, Hannah Kelley (nee Dooly), Sarah Goheen (nee Dooly) and Thomas Goheen, her husband, Michael Dooly, Maria Brennan (nee Dooly) and John K. Brennan, her husband, children, grandchildren, legatees, devisees and heirs of Michael Derck, late of the Township of Cameron, County of Northumberland, and State of Pennsylvania, deceased, do hereby acknowledge that we of this day have and received of and from John P. Francis, of the said Township of Cameron, the owner of the tract of land hereinafter described the sum of four hundred eighty-six dollars and eighty-two cents ($462.82) Dollars being the full amount, sum or share due us in accordance with the dower mortgage and the bonds accompanying the same in the estate of the said Michael Derck, deceased, duly filed in the Register's Office at Sunbury on the 2nd day of December A.D. 1871, the said mortgage and the bonds accompanying same being a lien upon and covering all that certain tract or piece of land situate in the said Township of Cameron, County of Northumberland, State of Pennsylvania, bounded and described as follows Bounded on the north by lands formerly of Daniel Derck, now David Karstetter, on the East by lands of George Latsha, on the South by Mountain lands and on the West formerly lands of Henry Otto, now of Henry Haas Containing sixty-four (64) acres of land to be the same more or less this being the same tract or parcel of land conveyed to the said John E. Francis by one David S. Hollenbach and wife, by Indentures bearing date on the 27th day of April A.D. 1875 and recorded in the Recorder's Office in Sunbury on the 28th day of April A.D. 1875 in Deed Book No 69 page 653+ and in Consideration of said payment we do hereby authorize the Register of Wills of the said County of Northumberland to Satisfy the said dower mortgage and the bonds accompanying the same and do further hereby release and forever discharge as well as the said John P. Francis, his heirs and assigns and also the said lands above and herein described of all liability, claim or demand, charge or lien on account of and from or by reason of the said dower mortgage and bonds accompanying the same together with all claims and demands whatsoever we or either of us can or may have against the said lands herein described. Witness our hands and seals this seventeenth day of July A.D. one-thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven. her Signed, Sealed and Delivered Elias Derck seal Elizabeth x Kerstetter seal in the presence of us Israel Derck seal mark Lewis H. Ryon Sarah Schwatrz seal Simon P. Kerstetter seal Wm. E. Ressler Henry Schwartz seal her her Catharine x Kerstetter seal Mary x Reichwine mark mark seal John Reichwine seal Aaron Kerstetter seal Andrew Weikel seal Mrs. Hannah Kelley her Sarah E. Miller seal Sarah x Goheen seal Susannah Brown seal mark her Thomas Goheen seal Maria x Brennan John K. Brennan seal mark seal =============== Family IDs: Michael Derk/Derck, s/o John Durk/Turk and Regina Albert married Mary Elisabeth Kerstetter d/o Leonhard Kerstetter and Susannah Gerhart about 1819. Their children as I have understood them: [CtL] John b. 5 May 1820 not named Catharine b. 1 Apr 1822 married Anthony Heinher/Hinger Elisabeth b. 24 Dec 1824 married Daniel Dooley Elias b. 20 Jul 1832 Israel b. c. 1836 Abby b. _____ married Charles K. Weikel ------------------------------ Brennan Derck / Derk / Derrick Francis Schwartz Hinger / Heinher Reichwein / Reichwine Miller Weikel Brown Kerstetter / Karstetter Dooly / Dooley Kelley Goheen Otto Haas Hollenbach Latsha Ryan Ressler