Land: Indenture from Lewis D. and Jane Winnemore to Margaret Winnemore (1847), 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 RDW 127 Page 46 February 9, 1847 Lewis D. Winnemore ux to Margaret Winnemore This Indenture made February 9, 1847 between Lewis D. Winnemore, of the Town of Cahaba in the County of Dallas, State of Alabama, Gentleman, who was one of the children and heirs at law of Thomas Winnemore, deceased, and Jane, his wife, of the one part and Margaret Winnemore of Elizabeth Town in the County of Lancaster, State of Pennsylvania, widow of the said Thomas Winnemore, deceased, of the other part. Witnesses that Lewis D. Winnemore and Jane, his wife, in consideration of the sum of Three hundred and seventy five dollars paid by Margaret Winnemore, convey all the one full equal undivided eleventh part and share of them, the said Lewis Winnemore and his wife in… A certain three story brick messuage or tenement and lot or piece of ground situate on the west side of Second street between Pine and Lombard Streets, Philadelphia, containing in front or breadth eighteen feet and in length or depth seventy feet. Bounded on the east by Second Street aforesaid in the northley ground now or late of the Heirs of John Hamper Decemer, on the west by a certain four feet wide alley extending into Lombard Street ? on the ground formerly of Joseph Shippen (which said messuage and lot of ground above described Thomas Truxten, Esq., High Sheriff, Philadelphia, by Deed Poll bearing date of November 8, 1816 recorded in Deed Book MR No. 12, page 677, conveyed unto Thomas Winnemore. Thomas Winnemore died intestate on or about March 28, 1837, leaving to survive him Margaret Winnemore, his widow and issue eleven children, Lewis D., Jane, Hannah, Isaac, Anna, Margaret, Rebecca, Thomas M., Jacob W., Eliza S and Samuel Winnemore in whom the said premises descended and vested as his heirs at law in equal parts and shares as tenants in common subject to the dower rights of their mother, the said Margaret Winnemore. (party hereto) Signed: Lewis D. Winnemore Jane Winnemore Witnesses: Frences A. Saunders, Justice of the Peace of Dallas County Mary A. Underwood Sarah J. Bohcemmen Lewis signs that he has received $375. from Margaret Winnemore. Addison I. Safford, Judge of the County Court, County of Dallas, State of Alabama, on February 9, 1847 stated that Lewis D. Winnemore and Jane, his wife, acknowledged the above written Indenture as being done of their own free will. Recorded April 21, 1857 Submitted by Kathleen Berner Groll