Land: Joseph KENNEDY et al. to Wm H. McCOOL, 1851: Scrubgrass Twp, Venango Co, PA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Jenny Rader. ARaders@aol.com USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file 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. Deed Joseph KENNEDY & wife et al To Wm H. McCOOL Now know ye that the said Joseph KENEDY and Jane his wife, John McCOOL and Betsey his wife, Stephen JONES and Margaret his wife & George P McCOOL all of Venango County and State of Pennsylvania for and in consideration of the sum of two hundred dollars to them in hand paid by the said William H McCOOL of the township of Scrubgrass county & State aforesaid at and before the ensealing and delivery hereof the receipt whereof they do acknowledge and thereof acquit and forever discharge the said William H McCOOL his heirs executors and administrators by these presents and each of them hath released and forever quit claimed and by these presents do and each and every of them do remise release and forever quit claim to the said William H McCOOL and his heirs and as signs. All the state and estates shares purports and dividends rights title interest property claim and demand whatsoever of them the said Joseph KENEDY & Jane his wife, John McCOOL & Betsey his wife, Stephen JONES & Margaret his wife & George P McCOOL in law or equity or otherwise howsoever of in or out of that tract of two hundred acres of land conveyed to the heirs of George McCOOL late of Scrubgrass township Venango County & State aforesaid decÕd by John SCOTT & Margaret his wife, situate lying and being in the township of Scrubgrass county & State aforesaid now in the possession of the said William H McCOOL bounded and described as follows: adjoining land formerly Thomas BANNONS on the south, John SCOTT on the west, heirs of Matthew RIDDLE on the north, heirs of Samuel JOLLY on the east. Together with all and singular other the buildings, improvements, rights, members and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto belonging or in wise appertaining to the sahres to which we the said Joseph KENEDY and Jane his wife, John McCOOL & Betsey his wife, Stephen JONES & Margaret his wife and George P McCOOL that we are entitled to & due out of the said described tract of land as lawful heirs of the said George McCOOL decÕd. And the reversions, reminders, rents issues a nd profits thereof to have and to hold all and singular the premises hereby remised released or mentioned and intended so to be, with the appurtenances unto the said William H McCOOL, his heirs and assigns forever, so that neither the said Joseph KENNEDY & Jane his wife, John McCOOL & Betsey his wife, Stephen JONES & Margaret his wife, & George P McCOOL nor their or any other person or persons whosoever lawfully claiming or to claim by from or under them or any of them shall or may at any time or times hereafter have claim chalange [sic] or demand any estate right title or interest of in or out of said shares & hereditaments and premises hereby remised, released or mentioned or intended so to be with the appurtenances or any part or parcel thereof but thereof and therefrom shall and will be utterly excluded and forever debarred by these presents. In Witness whereof we have hereunto set our hand & seals the 26th day of June one thousand eight hundred and thirty five. Joseph KENNEDY seal Jane KENEDY seal her mark John McCOOL seal Betsey McCOOL seal her mark Signed Sealed and delivered in presents of Witness present Peter SMITH Stephen JONES seal Margaret JONES seal her mark Witness present Wm CRAWFORD AW CRAWFORD George P McCOOL seal Witness present Wm CRAWFORD Saml JOLLEY $200.00 RecÕd on the day of the date of the above & foregoing release of and from the aforesaid William H. McCOOL two hundred dollars being in full of the consideration therein mentioned Joseph KENNEDY seal Jane KENEDY seal her mark John McCOOL seal Betsey McCOOL seal her mark Signed Sealed and delivered in presents of Witness present Peter SMITH Stephen JONES seal Margaret JONES seal her mark Witness present Wm CRAWFORD AW CRAWFORD George P McCOOL seal Witness present Wm CRAWFORD Saml JOLLEY Venango County, SS Seal On the 26th day of June 1835 before me a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, came the above signed Joseph KENEDY & Jane his wife John McCOOL & Betsey his wife, Stephen JONES & Margaret his wife and George P McCOOL and personally acknowledged the foregoing within signed release as such according to law the they said Jane, Betsey, & Margaret being of full age separate and apart from their said husbands by me examined and the full contents thereof made known ot them voluntarily consenting thereto. In Witness whereof I have herewith set my seal the day & year aforesaid. February the 26th AD 1836 signed and sealed in presence of me Peter SMITH Wm CRAWFORD to Geo McCOOL Also to Stephen & Margaret JONES Recorded 10 October 1851 Deed book M, p 171, Venango County, PA, FHL film 864545