The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1886-07-16
A Union County Deed.
DOCUMENT THAT GOES BACK TO TIE
TITLE OF ADAM AND EVE TO THE
EARTH.

From the Harrisburg star.
1t is not often that any legal docu-
ment is discovered that dates back TO
the time of our original and highly
respectable, though sinful ancestors,
Adam and Eve, but there is one of that
character on file in the Prothonotary'
Office at Lewisburg, now in Union, but
anciently in Northumberland county.
The following old deed is rare curl
osity in the conveyancing line. AL
though the recitals, as well as the gen
eral form of the deed, are long, yet it
is drawn with skill:
"This indenture made the ninth OF
October, in the year of our Lord, one
thousand seven hundred and ninety
three, between Clara Helena Ellink-
huysen, of the town of Louisburg in
the township of Buffalo, in the county
of Northumberland and commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, widow, of the one
part and Flavel Roam, of the town of
Sunbury, in the county and common
wealth aforesaid, Esquire, of the other
part.
"WHEREAs, The Creator of the
Earth, by parole and livery of seizin,
did enfeof the parents of mankind to
wit, Adam and Eve, of all that certain
tract of land, called and known in the
planetary system by the name of the
Earth, together with all and singular
the advantages, woods, waters, water
courses, easements, liberties, privileges,
and all Others the appurtenances what
soever there unto belonging, or in any
wise appertaining, to have and to hold
to them, the said Adam and Eve, and
the heirs of their bodies lawfully to be
begotten, in fee-tail general forever, as
by said feoffment recorded by Moses,
IN the first chapter of the first book of
his records, commonly called Genesis,
more fully and at large appears on
reference being thereunto had and
"WHEREAs, The said Adam and Eve
died seized of the premises aforesaid
in fee-tail general, leaving issue, heirs
of their bodies, to wit, sons and daugh-
tiers, who entered into the same premi
ses and became thereof seized as ten
ants in common by virtue of the dona-
tion aforesaid, and multiplied their
seed upon the earth !; and
"WHEREAs, In process of time, the
heirs of the said Adam and Eve having
become very numerous, and finding it
to be inconvenient to remain in COM
mon as aforesaid, bethought them
selves to make partition of the lands
and tenements aforesaid to and among
themselves and they did accordingly
make such partition; and whereas by
the virtue of the said partition made
by the heirs of the said Adam and Eve
all that certain tract of land called and
known on the plan of the said Earth
by the name of America, parcel of said
large tract was allotted and set over
unto certain of the heirs aforesaid to
them and to their heirs general iu fee
simple, who entered into the same and
became thereof seized as aforesaid in
their demise, as of fee, and
peopled the same allotted lands in sew
crafty and made partition thereof to
and amongst their descendants. Aud,
WHEREAS, Afterwards-now deem
ed in time immemorial- certain uni
ted people called "The Six Nations of
North America" heirs and descendants
of the said grantees of America, be-
came seized, and for long time where
of the memory of man runneth not to
the contrary have been seized in their
demesne as of Zee, of and in certain
tract OF country and land in the north
di, ision of America, called and known
at present on the general plan of the
SAID north division by the name of
Pennsylvania and
"WHEREAs, The said united nations,
being so thereof seized afterwards, to
wit, in the year of Our Lord one thous.
and seven hundred and eighty six, by
their certain deed of feoffment with
livery seizin, did grant, bargain, sell,
relefse, enfeoff, alien and confirm unto
Thomas Penn and Richard Penn
otherwise called the Proprietaries of
Pennsylvania among other things), the
country called the Buffaloe Valley, sit
uated on the south side of the west
branch of the river Susquahanna, par.
Gel of said country called Pennsylvania.
Thus the deed runs on down to the
time of its date-1793. 1t is properly
signed and sealed and in every respect
conforms to the strict letter of the law
1t wfs acknowledged before William
Gray, Justice of the Peace, and record
ed by J. Simpson, at Sunbury, in Deed
Book +, page $50, on November 3
1893. The consideration was sixteer
pounds and ten shillings.