The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-07-15
SHERIFFS SALE.


Between Walter D. Edmonds. complainant,
and Violet McGregor Littell and William
Meeker Littell, her husband. defendants
Fl. ia. for sale of mortgaged premises. Re-
turnable to October term, A. D., 1885,
E. A. & w. T. DAY. Solicitors.
DY virtue of the above stated writ of Fieri
ID Facias in my hands, [ shall expose for
sale at Public Vendue at the Court House in
Morristown, n j., on
Monday, the LIST day of August next,
A. D., 1885, between the hours of IL m. and 5
O'Clock p. M, that is to say at O'Clock IN the
afternoon of said day, all those lots, tracts
or parcels of lands and premises situate, lying
and being formerly in the township of Rox-
bury, now in the Borough of Mt. Arlington,
in the County of Morris and State OF New Jer-
sey:
First Tract-Beginning at dead ash tree
the beginning corner of a tract of land re-
turned to Ephriam futile. recorded in the
Surveyor Generals office at Amboy in Book
ga. Folio "a, said ash tree stands north forty
seven degrees east three chains seventy eight
links from a large rock by the edge OF Brooklyn
Pond on the southwest OF the Great Cove, said
rock bears against the Tamarick tree small
one by the side of it and runs ID south thirty
nine degrees west eight chains CD north thir-
ty degrees east four chains forty links; CD
south eighty-one degrees twenty minutes west
twenty six chains and fifty links; Cd south
fifty-six degrees thirty minutes west twelve
chains; % south seventy three degrees west
thirty minutes west thirteen chains and
eighty links; % south eight degrees west six
chains ten links; 60 south fortyfour degrees
east four chains; go north eighty degrees east
ten chains fifty-fve links; Q0) south fifty-two
degrees east twenty-five chains; CID north
forty degrees thirty minutes east ffty-four
chains fifteen links; CD north seventy degrees
thirty minutes west eight chains to the place
of beginning, containing one hundred and
thirty-one sixty-eight one hundredths acres
be the same more or less.
Second Tract-Being part of a tract of one
hundred and two ifty.four one-hundredths
acres, returned to.James Parker on the 18th
day of June, 1888, and recorded in the Surveyor
Generals Office at Perth Amboy in Book S s,
page 178. Beginning at very large rock
(being the largest of any in view at that place.
lying on course south forty degrees west dis
tant sixty links from g place where small
brook known as Mine Swamp Brook empties
itself into the little cove part of the great
Muskonectkong Pond and situate on the east
side thereof and is the beginning of the whole
tract and from thence ID north eighty-five de-
grees east eight chains and fifty links; CO
nth thirty. eight degrees thirty minutes east
forty-three chains; go north nine degrees
west three chains ten links to the line of
ninety-seven fifty seven one-hundredths acres
returned to Lord Stirling in So, page 308;
"a south thirty nine and one-half degrees
west thirty eight chains sixty links to the
eleventh corner of said tract 90 north fifty
three degrees west TWENTY-FIVE chains to the
tenth corner of same; 90 south seventy nine
degrees west one chain thirty links to the cove
chains seventy links; 80 south twenty two de-
grees west five chains fifty links to the place
of beginning. containing twenty-three and
ninety-eight hundredths acres.
Third Tract-Was returned to Lemuel Cobb
on the 2lst day of March, 1916, and recorded in
Book SIT, page S56 and joins the aforesaid
tract on the east side. Beginning on a course
north thirty eight degrees and a-half east five
chains eighty links from the second corner of
tract of one hundred and two ffty-four one
hundredths acres returned to James Parker on
the 18th day of June, 1888, and recorded in
Book S-S, page IT'S, and from thence running
Cd north thirty eight degrees and a-half east
thirty-seven chains and twenty links; CD
north nine degrees west two chains thirty-fve
links; 60 north thirty-nine degrees and a half
east four chains fifty links; "a south twelve
degrees east five chains ten links; (5) south
sixty seven degrees west five chains; co south
five degrees and a-half west nineteen chains
forty four links; Cd south sixty seven degrees
and a-half west twenty-five chains ten links
to the place of beginning, containing twenty
seventy six hundredths acres.
There is. however, to be deducted from the
above described premises the following par
cells of land and premises, a lot conveyed by
Asa M. Phillips and wife to William H Earle,
Sr, and William H. Earle, DR., by deed dated
November II, 1853. containing 5000 square
feet: a lot conveyed by Jacob B. Kemever and
wife to William H. Ball by deed of March %.
1869 Up page 100 containing thirty-ni acres;
one lot reserved by Richard Carman in his
deed to Jacob B. Kemever dated May l, 1867
(P 7-1]5 &c.) containing ninety-one one-hun-
dredths of an acre with the right of way there
in named; also excepting and reserving from
the force. operation and effect Of this mort
gage the following lots which are shown upon
a map entitled Map of McGregor Park. Lake
Hopatcong, Morris County, N. j., made by
George w; Howell, 9: E;-Lots Nos. 4 5, 8, ID,
veyed to S. s. Seargent adjoining lot No SO on
the southeasterly side and with a frontage of
about TWO hundred and twenty-five feet on
said lake, also excepting and reserving the
point or neck of land called Chestnut Point
from the road at present laid out and shown
on said map; also excepting a plot of land con-
tanning about one acre and located on the east
erly side of the road at present laid out, run
ming along the rear of all said lots, said plot
being opposite to lots Nos 6S and SO shown on
said map and to the upper portion of the plot
conveyed to Seargent and being the southerly
end or point of the block marked Block on
said map; also excepting and reserving the
plot of land in the rear of the tract above men
toned as conveyed to William H Earle, ST.,
and William II. Earle, Jr.. and running out TO
said road and being about two hundred and
fifty feet in length upon said road and about
one hundred feet deep on the westerly side
thereof and about forty feet deep on the east
erly side thereof. The last above plot having
been conveyed to straighten out the line of the
said Earle tract
The aforesaid map being filed in the office of
the Clerk of said County of Morris.
The said three tracts above described, after
deducting therefrom the above enumerated
lots, tracts or parcels OF land. contain one
The premises above described are the same
which were conveyed to the said John Nc
Gregor in his lifetime by two certain Deeds
one dated May 4 1873 and recorded in Book @
of Deeds for. Morris County at page3 3, and
the other bearing date August 3, 1885, and re-
corded III Book IL page 1885, and of which he
died seized. and which were devised by bin in
his last will and testament to the said Violet
McGregor Littell. The said title of the said
McGregor, however. did not include the mines
ores and minerals contained in said first tract;
these were however, conveyed to the said
Violet McGregor Littell by Oscar Lindsey,
Sheriff. by deed dated March 49, 1892, and re-
corded in Book Q-13 of Deeds for Morris Coun-
' at page 95 and are subject to the lien, opera
ton and effect of this mortgage.