Land: Indenture from Thomas M. & Charlotte Winnemore to Samuel H. McFadden (1855), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Kathleen Berner Groll ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Abstracted from City Archives, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Deed Book ADB #102 Page 461 September 15, 1855 Thomas M. Winnemore etux to Samuel H. McFadden The Indenture made between Thomas M. Winnemore, City of Philadelphia, House Carpenter, acting herein by his attorney in fact, William C. Flanigen duly constituted and appointed by Letter of Attorney dated March 5, 1851, recorded in Letter of Attorney Book GWC No. 2 page 229, and Charlotte, his wife of the one part, and Samuel H. McFadden of the said city, Merchant of the other part. Thomas M. Winnemore and Charlotte, his wife, in consideration of $100 to be paid by Samuel H. McFadden for… All the one equal undivided fourth part or share of him the said Thomas Winnemore in that certain lot or piece of ground situate in the twenty fourth ward of the said City of Philadelphia, lately in Hestonville in the Township of Blockley composed of four adjoining lots of ground marked in the plan of Frederick Sorber, lots No. 14, 15, 16 and 17. Beginning at a point in the middle of Pear Street at the distance of thirty five feet northwestward from the middle of Sorber Avenue between Franklin Street and Apple Street, thence extending northwestward along the middle of the said Pear Street one hundred feet to ground granted to Benjamin M. Feltwell, thence south westwardly along the same on a line at right angles to said Pear Street one hundred and twenty three feet to ground now or late of Jacob F. Heston, thence southwardly along the same twenty nine feet to the middle of the said Sorber Avenue and thence eastward along the same one hundred and eight feet to other ground granted to the said Benjamin M. Feltwell and thence northeastward along the same eighty feet to the middle of said Pear Street, the place of beginning. Being the same lot or piece of ground which Frederick Sorber by Indenture dated November 30, 1850 Deed Book GWC No. 77, page 19 conveyed unto Margaret Winnemore. Margaret Winnemore, according to her Last Will dated December 28, 1848, and after sundry other bequests, gave the rest of her estate, real and personal to her four sons, Thomas M. Winnimore, party hereto, Jacob W., Ezra S.E., and Samuel, share and share alike. Sealed and Delivered in the presence of us by William C. Flanigen, Attorney in fact Aug. C. Leidy, Jno B. Kenney Signed Thomas M. Winnemore by his Attorney in fact, Wm. C. Flanigen Charlotte Winnemore And by the said Charlotte Winnemore in the presence of us Jacob R. Long Cyrus Groff Wm. C. Flanigen as Attorney in Fact, signs for Thomas M. Winnemore that he has received the $100 from Samuel McFadden. Jacob R. Long, Justice of the Peace, signs that Charlotte Winnemore came before him in the County of Lancaster to prove that she signed of her own free will, on September 19, 1855. Wm. C. Flanigen as Attorney in Fact for Thomas M. Winnemore signs that he came before the court in Philadelphia and that this was Thomas wish, on September 15, 1855. Recorded March 2, 1860 Submitted by Kathleen Berner Groll