Deed: Nicholas Long to Joseph Long, filed 1867,Somerset County, PA 
 
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Transcribed from photocopy of the original filed in Recorder of Deeds Office, 
Vol 10, page 144, Somerset County Courthouse, Somerset, PA: 
 
Bill of Sale or Mortgage, Nicholas Long to Joseph Long 
 
Know all men by these presents that I Nicholas Long of Elklick Township, 
Somerset County in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, have granted, bargained, 
and sold, and by these Presents do grant, bargain and sell and deliver unto 
Joseph Long of Brothers valley township in the County of Somerset and 
Commonwealth aforesaid for the Consideration of three hundred and fifty dollars 
Lawful money of the United States owing and coming to said Joseph Long by said 
Nicholas Long the following property, Viz: one Bay mare, one other bay mare, one 
gray mare, 1 sorrel colt, 2 bay colts, five milk cows and eleven head of young 
cattle, sixteen head of hogs, one copper still and the hogs heads kegs & the 
remainder belonging to the distillery, one loome and the Gears and other 
articles belonging to the weaving bussiness, one stove and pipe, two beds 
Bedstaeds & Beding, two Ploughs and one Harrow, four set of horse geers, one 
waggon, one windmill, one cutting box and knife, four barrels of cider oil, five 
Iron kettles, one rifle, two chists, nine acres of winter grain in the ground, 
one copper kettle, three hundred & fifty pounds of hams shoulders & side pieces 
of bacon, one hundred and sixty pounds of gun powder, sixty Bushels of oats, 
fifteen bushels of wheat, fifteen bushels rye, 2 log chains, 2 axes, 1 mattock, 
2 shovels all which property is to be had and held by said Joseph Long 
absolutely to him the said Joseph Long his heirs, Executors, administrators, or 
assigns forever, with this reservation, that if the said Nicholas Long, his 
heirs, Executors or administrators or Either of them shallwell and truly pay or 
cause to be paid the above sum of three hundred & fifty dollars money as above 
said on or before the fifth day of April Anno Domini one thousand Eight hundred 
& twenty five with lawfull interest for the same without any fraud or further 
delay then this present bill of sale or mortgage shall cease determine & be coid 
& the property aforesaid shall revert to said Nicholas Long his heirs or assigns 
as fully as though this Mortgage or Bill of Sale had not been made.  In Witness 
whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this fifth day of April in the year 
of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty two.   
					Nicholas Long {seal} 
Witness at the signing, sealing and delivery hereof: 
John Will 
Abraham Miller 
	Somerset County, SS: 
Be it remembered that on the fifth day of April A.D. 1822, Nicholas Long came in 
his proper person before me one of the Commonwealths Justices of the Peace and 
acknowledged the foregoing Bill of sale or Mortgage to be his act and deed & 
desired that it might be recorded according to Law.  In Testimony whereof I have 
hereunto set my hand and seal at Somerset the same day and year. 
					John Wills {seal} 
Recorded 5th April 1822, John Will, Recorder.