The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1843-10-31

the said Henry Wnbrdge being then Of about the
nge Of 81 years. and being mechanic by occupation
and having II numerous hmiy of children several Of
whom Of both sexes were under legal age and also
wife, dependent upon him for support entered into
contact with Amos Walbridge mn unmarried son Of
said Henry, then of legal nge, being about % years
old, and resident in the family OF said Henry TO the
effect that the said Henry should convey by Quclam
deed TO said Amos and his heirs the farm above de-
scribed in consideration of which the said Amos was
10 execute life lease Of the sad Henry TO
said Henry and his wife ydia life estate therein
10 continue during the natural life Of said Henry and
Of said l.ydia r she should survive her husband pro.
vided sho should remain u widow. And also bond
10 the penn SUN of fifteen hundred dollars, being the
assumed 10 be the value Of said farm, con-
dilioned That said Amos should maintain and support
the said Henry and hiI wife LYDIA, the mother Of
said Amos in sickness and in health during their nat
ura lives she the said Iy dia If survivor remaining
a widow tho said Amos 10 have the use aud i'm
provement of said premises so long he should
tnue TO support his said father and mother, excepting
one square room in the chamber for the of the
unmarried daughters Of said Henry then residing with
him, so long respectively they should remain under
age and unmarried said house said farm being
considered their home or place ofresdence--and fur
thor that said Amos should pay all debts then due
and owing from said Henry, he being assisted therein
SO FAR the ability Of said Henry might extend. and
pay all thereon assessed thereafter be as
scsscd said tHrm, and furnish the said Henry all
times with good horse and carriage Cor his comfort
md convenience.
That in pursuance Of the said agreement the said
Henry duly executed and delivered said Amos his
quitcain deed Of the aforesaid farm, which deed
bears date April 4, 1920, and was duly acknowledge
ed and recorded on the same day. And at the same
time said Amos executed and delivered TO said Henry
lease of said farm for the term of the natural life of
said Henry and his said wife LYDIA and she surviving
for the term Of her northumberland at the same
time the said Amos executed and delivered 10 said
Henry bond in the sum Of fifteen hundred dollars
with condition in substance MS u hereing before set
lnrth-nnd that said deed and instrument called life
lease was duly recorded in The town clerks Office Of
said town Of Cabot And that the said Bond and life
lease and the spulatons and agreements therein
tanned the part Of said Amos, in fact constituted
the true and only consideration for the conveyance
OF said farm, and aItho the consideration named in
snid Henry = said deed was 500, yet that no nun-
ey thing was in fact paid by said Amos to-said
Henry.
That at the time Of making said contract the sad
Henry justly indebted TO various individuals
siding in Cabot and elsewhere on note and book
count in various sums of money to the amount in
the whole Of $500 which debts the said Amos
duly apprised at the time Of entering into said
contract and which also the said Amos assumed to
pay, as part consideration for the said farm, That
said Amos and Henry continued TO reside on said
farm from said 18th OF April, 1922 until October Of
that year, tho said Amos during that time performing
but little labor either personally or by procurement,
upon said farm and doing less for the support of his
farm being carried by the joint labor of the family
That said Amos ut the time Of making said co,i-
tract was possessed Of very little property of any
kind-That in October 1929, said Amos being Dis
satisfied with the bargain he had made, and dispeas
ed with this part Of the country aud convinced that
he should not he able support his parents and pay
off his fathers debts and DESTROYS of abandoning said
contract suddenly left Tire town of Cabo, and went
to reside in the State Of Pennsylvania in which Stale
he has continued 10 reside ever since without having
~ II 10 Dlh
relatives in Vermont, declaring, before and nj the
time he left Cabot, to his father and mother and broth
ers sisters Sothers publicly that he did intend
abide by the contract he had entered into with his
father but intended abandon and consider it the
same ii II had never been mide-that said Amos
up to the time of his leaving Cabot had neither paid
nor assumed any of his fathers debts except some
small amount-l'hat snd Henry confding in the hon.
esty and sincerity Of the declarations of his Amos
and willing to consider SAID contract unnued and at
an end, assented to the same and thereupon said A.
mos handed back to his Gather, left in the of
other person in Cabot the identical original quit
claim deed which he had received from him ut the
same time stating that such delivery TO be for The
use and benefit of his father and tantamount to re
conveyance of said promises to his father by formal
deed duly executed by him the said AMOS,
That the said Henry being credulous, believed that
such declaration, together with the delivery of the
said qutclam deed and the abandonment OF the pos
session Of said premises by said Amos was equvu-
was thus by the fraud and deceit of said Amos by
accident aAd mistake induced to (orego such formal
re.conveyance and leave the leg title to said farm
on said Amos-That after said Amos left Cabot he
did nothing directly nor indirectly towards the sup
port of his father mother, nor towards the pay
ment Of his fathers debts, did he in any way III
terlcre with the possession profits and income of
said iilrn-That said henry continued in possession
of said farm, taking the profits and without claim
hndrance from said Amos any else until about
May 1882, when he removed TO Lowell, Massachu
ses, where he resided till his death which occurred
about the I'd December, 1882 leaving alive L., dia
his widow, who still survives, and ten
children.
That on the 9th December, 1882, John Wal |
bridge then OF Calais took from the Probate Court
for the district of Caledonia letters of ad ADMINISTRATION
on the Estate Of said Henry Walbrijge deceased du-
y represented the same nsolvent and proceeded to
settle the that the personal property Of said
Henry was appraised ut $S494 93 and an inventory
accepted and recorded by said Court: That Commits
sioners of insolvency were appointed and reported
The claims due from said deceased to he $500 60 |
which also accepted but that said farm was not
included in the Inventory nor appraised part Of |
said Henry's property-That nearly all Of said claims
allowed by said Commissioners due and owing |
10 the several creditors named in said Commissioners
report the time when said Henry and Amos enter