Land: Deed: Patton, John R & Mathew H. -Patton, James 1867 Franklin Township, Westmoreland Co., PA
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Lease - "Hill Field"
Written: 1867
Recorded: 1867

Westmoreland Deed Bk pg 161

Lease

Know all men by these present that James Patton of the township of Franklin
County of Westmoreland & State of Pennsylvania in consideration of the sum of
one dollar received from John R. Patton & Mathew H. Patton, and the covenants
and agreements entered into by them and hereunder written, do hereby leas to
the said John R. Patton & Mathew H. Patton, all that part of the farm 
belonging
to the said James Patten, known as the "Hill Field" supposed to contain twenty
(20) acres more or less for the term of twenty five years, for the purpose of
growing fruit.

The said John R. Patton & Mathew H. Patton to have the privilege of 
planting as
many fruit trees on said tract as they may see fit; they to select the kind or
kinds of fruit they may wish to raise and it is mutually understood that the
said James Patton to have the privilege of using said 'tract' for farming
purposes until the fruit trees are grown so large as to interfere with growing
crops, but he is not to allow cattle or horses to pasture among the growing
trees to the detriment of the orchard, and the said John R. Patton and Mathew
H. Patton  covenant and agree that they will pay to the said James Patton one
fifth part of all fruit grown on the property, leased said fifth to be picked
and in Culk?  And if at the expiration of twenty five years from the date of
this Lease, the orchard is in good condition and profitable then the said John
R. Patton & Mathew H. Patton, is to have it ten years longer. They to pay said
James Patton or his heirs one fourth of all fruit raised during said 
ten years,
it to be delivered in the orchard in good barrells and all rights and
privileges herein granted are to be governed, controlled and limited by the
conveyance made by James Patton to John R. Patton and Mathew H. Patton on the
first day of January Eighteen Hundred and Sixty Seven (1867).

Witness our hands & seals interchangeably this  __ day of __ 186 _

James Patton

Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of Eli Dible.

Westmoreland County. Be it remembered that on this 24th day of November A.D.
1866, before me a Justice of the Peace in & for said county personally James
Patton and acknowledged the signing and sealing hereof of the foregoing
instrument to be his free act and deed witness my signature & seal   Jas A.
Potter, JP.

Recorded Dec 16, 1867

Additional Comments:
James Patton married Ruth Ann Riley June 20, 1833 in Columbiana Co OH.
I believe he purchased this entire land Nov 15, 1854 from J.N. Dick174 acres
adjoined James Boyd, Widow Smith, Jeremiah Beeham

John Riley Patton born 1835 - never married
Mathew Henry Patton born 1849

James Patton died Jan 10, 1879.... 12 years after the signing of this lease.

1885 Ruth Ann Patton, widow sells coal and petroleum rights to Coal 
Natural Gas
Co,.  1892 she sells land to Turtle Creek Railroad. These deeds list the names
of the children.