Deed, NY, Dutchess, Cornelius Soper to Nicholas Van Wagenen, 1814 THIS INDENTURE made the 30th day of April in the year of Our Lord 1814. BETWEEN CORNELIUS SOPER of the Town of Poughkeepsie in the county of Dutchess and state of New York, and JENNY [SOPER] his wife, of the first part and NICHOLAS E. VAN WAGENEN of the town of Clinton in the said County of the second part. WITNESSETH that the said parties of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of $2,625, to them in hand paid at her before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, by the said party of the second part, the receipt where of is hereby confessed and acknowledged, have granted, bargained, sold, aliened, remised, released, conveyed, assured, enfeoffed and confirmed and by these presents to grant, bargain, sell, alien, remised, release, convey, assure, enfeoff and confirm fully, freely, and absolutely unto the said party of the second part in his actual possession now being and to his heirs and assigns forever. All that certain lot or piece of land situated in the town of Clinton aforesaid in a patent known by the name of Hyde Park founded as follows, to wit. Beginning at the southeast corner of JOHN ALBERTSONS land at a stake and stone on the west bank of Fish Creek; thence South 83 degrees west 3 chains and 82 links to a walnut tree marked with three notches on four sides; thence North 12 degrees East 8 chains and 30 links to a stake and stones; thence North 78 degrees west 70 chains and 24 links to a stake and stones; thence North 7 degrees east 1 chain; thence South 86 degrees 30 minutes West 27 chains 89 links to a stake and stones on the west side of a creek or brook leading into the cripple bush and between the said creek and a ledge of rocks; thence South 6 degrees and 30 minutes West 40 chains and 30 links to one or two Walnut saplings marked on four sides with three notches and a blaze; thence South 76 degrees east 31 chains and 39 links to the aforesaid Fish Creek; thence up and along said creek to the place of beginning. CONTAINING 155 acres and 33 perches of land accepting and reserving 60 Acres here to for granted and conveyed to Dr. SAMUEL BARD and the residue also subject to the right here to for granted by the said SAMUEL BARD to DANIEL S. DEAN to overflow the same or any part of the land by the dam across the said Fish Creek. TOGETHER with all and singular the appurtenances, privileges, and advantages, whatsoever unto the said above mentioned and described premises in any wise appertaining or belonging and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues, and Prophets thereof. AND ALSO all the said estate, right, title, interest, property, claim and demand whatsoever as well as in law and inequity of the said parties of the first part of and in and to the said scratch same or any part or parcel thereof with the appurtenances. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the above granted, bargain, and describe premises with your furnace is under the said party of the second part his heirs and as signs to his and their own proper use, benefit, and behoove forever. Page 1 of 4 ** PAGE BREAK ** Deed, NY, Dutchess, Cornelius Soper to Nicholas Van Wagenen, 1814 AND the said CORNELIUS SOPER, for himself and his heirs, doth covenant, promise, grant for himself and his heirs just covenant, promise, grant, and agree to and with the said party of the second part is heirs and assigns that the said CORNELIUS SOPER at the time of the sealing and delivery of these presents is lawfully seized in his own right of, in, into the aforesaid described premises hereby granted and conveyed with the appurtenances as of a good, sure, perfect, absolutely, and indefeasible estate of inheritance in the law, in fee simple, without any manner of condition to alter, change, determined, or defeat the same and half in himself good right, full power and lawful authority to grant, bargain, sell and convey and release the above-described land and premises unto the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns in a matter of four said. AND ALSO that the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns, shall I may from time to time and at all times and forever here after peaceably and quietly have, hold, occupy, possess, and enjoy the set hereby granted and bargain premises with the appurtenances. AND ALSO that the said parties of the first part and their heirs, and all and every other person or persons whom so ever lawfully or equitably driving any estate, right, title, dower, jointure or interest of, or in, or two here in before granted premises, by, from, under, or in trust for him and them shall and will at any time or times here after upon the reasonable request of the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns, and at the proper costs and charges in the law of the said party of the second part, his heirs or assigns, make, do, and execute or cause or procure to be made, done, and executed, all and every such further and other lawful and reasonable conveyances and assurance in the law for the better and more effectually vesting and confirming the premises here by intended to be granted an end to the said party of the second part his heirs and assigns to warrant and buy these presents forever to defend the above-described and released premises and every part and parcel thereof to the party of the second part his heirs and a science against the said parties of the first part and then their heirs and against all other person whatsoever lawfully claiming the same or any part thereof. In witness whereof the said parties of the first part have here in to set their hands and seals the day and year first above written. CORNELIUS SOPER {seal, his mark} JENNY SOPER {seal, her mark} Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of The word “five” between the 16th and 17th lines and The name Nicholas E. being written on an erasure H. S. NORTHROP Page 2 of 4 ** PAGE BREAK ** Deed, NY, Dutchess, Cornelius Soper to Nicholas Van Wagenen, 1814 State of New York Be it remembered that on the 5th day of May 1814 before me HENRY S. NORTHROP, master in Chancery, personally appeared the within named CORNELIUS SOPER, and JENNY his wife, proven to me to be the same person's therein described by the oath of PETER EVERITT, a person well known to me, as the grantors to the within deed and they severally acknowledged that they executed the same for the uses and purposes therein mentioned. And the said JENNY, on being by me privately examined separately and apart from her husband, confessed that she executed the same freely, without fear or compulsion of her said husband. And I have inspected the same and find no erasers or inter-lineation there in except those noted at the bottom and have been done before the execution thereof I do allow the same to be recorded. H. S. NORTHROP, master in chancery. Recorded the preceding deed this 20th day of February 1822 at 9 p.m. JACOB VAN NESS, Clerk Page 3 of 4 ** PAGE BREAK ** Deed, NY, Dutchess, Cornelius Soper to Nicholas Van Wagenen, 1814 ###### # # ##### ####### # # ##### ####### # # # # ## ## # # # ## # # # # # ## ## # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ###### # # # # #### ##### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## ### # # # # # # ###### # # ##### ####### # # ### ##### ####### # # Transcribed from original documents by Brent R. Brian & Martha M. Brian. 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