Bridgeton pioneer. (Bridgeton, N.J.) 1884-1919, 1899-03-30

ye.said land, as in daid letter of agency,
entered in ye Secretaries office at Bur
lington, Lib. B. fol. 154 and whereas We
said Thomas Budd for the accomplishing
these ends and purposes above, did by
his indenture bearing date of Second day
OF May in ye ninth year of ye Reign of
William ye Third, King of England &c
make ye most perfect and absolute Grant
of 400 acres of said land (then taken up)
unto Thomas Jones, Jonathan More.
house, Joseph Sealey and Joseph Sayre
lin fee; by giving ye same to them, and
to their heirs) Those words His or their
heirs" being We very terms appropriated
by ye law (although not in all gifts and
devices, yeti sessments and grants for
ye creating an estate of Inheritance,
which is appliable to ye present case, and
the same in perfect fee. or ye whole fee
be an express grant of ye reversion and
remainder thereof. The reversion being
always part of ye ancient fee. and in
judgment of law ever vested in We donor.
until grant of ye reversion be made, by
which grant, that part of ye fee simple
passeth, Ito be conveyed to ye said
Thomas Jones, Jonathan Morehouse,
Joseph Sealey, and Joseph Sayre. their
heirs and assigns, and their charge, when
and where they should like and please)
not exceeding in four places.
Whereas the said Thomas Jones
and others agreed to take ye said
four hundred acres in four determinate
places, one of which being in and ad-
jacent to ye town plot of Fairfield, in
Cohansey, in ye county of Salem afore-
said; but never presented that agreement,
by locating or surveying We said land
(waiting for and expecting title to ye
whole survey of 5000 acres) upon bond
from said Budd, either to make them "a
title. or pay them for their improvement
till at length, those original grantees de-
ceased one after another, ye land and
grant remaining in statu qno) and where
as Ephraim Sealey, of Cohansey afore-
said, haeres haeredis, and heir at law,
to ye aforesaid Joseph Sealey (surviving
his partners in said grant dying without
partition made) and heirs to We right aud
reversion, by Act of Law, cast upon We
aforesaid Joseph Sealey, ye survivor did
by his deed duly executed under his
hand and seal, dated December ye 18th,
l746, release all his right to, interest and
estate in that indeniture made by ye said
Thomas Budd and described as above:
Together with all his estate in ye fore
said 400 acres of land, (ye contents of
said indenture), to Daniel Elmer, of
Cohansey aforesaid, Clerk; to him, his
heirs and assigns, and whereas the said
Daniel Elmer hath since possessed him
self of ye first of those 400 acres, and of
ye other hundreds. in virtue of ye fore
said grant and release of right, locating
and having surveyed to himself his heirs,
and assigns, and at his own proper cost
and charge, (as for ye time, with proper
and convenient speed; and in regard of
place. where he thought fit and con-
venient, in three places and no more.
The first place being in and adjoining to
ye town plot of Fairfield aforesaid, Now
this indenture witnesseth that ye better
to enable ye said Daniel Elmer to grant
release and convey ye land hereinafter
mentioned, situate on Caesaria River,
alias Cohansey, aforesaid. and in ye town
plot of Fairfield unto ye above named
Ebenezer Westcott, Deacon; Capt. John
Ogden. It.; Jeremiah Buck. It,; Edward
Lummis, Ems; David Ogden, William
Bradford, Ephraim Daton, Matthew
Parvin, Benjamin Davis,} John Garrett
son, Thomas Bateman, Thomas Harris,
Jr., Nathaniel Whitaker, Ebenezer
Rowan ThonoS Wbitolxor T.,,os po+o
Stephen Clerk, and Daniel Batemap,
representatives of ye congregation in
Fairfield, Cohansey, as aforesaid; and to
their successors to ye use of ye foresaid
congregation, to such intents and in such
,rt, manner and form, as in and by one
indenture intended to bear date We day
next after ye day of ye date hereof; and
to be made between ye same parties as
these presents. We same shall be granted
and released; be ye said Daniel Elmer,
for and in consideration of ye sum of five
shil'ings, to him, in hand paid, by the
said Ebenezer Westcott, John Ogden,
&c, We receipt whereof ye said Daniel
Elmer doth acknowledge hereby ard
thereof and from acquit and discharge
the said Ebenezer Westcott, John Ogden
&C.; and their successors, forever by
these presents. hath given, granted, bar
gained and sold. and by these presents,
doth give, grant, bargain and sell to ye
aforesaid Ebenezer Westcott, John
Ogden. &C., representatives as above and
to their successors, certain tenement,
or tract of land, situate in ye town plot of
of Fairfield aforesaid, on which Fairfield
Meeting House, or their house for public
worship, is erected, and is butted and
bounded as followeth, viz:
Beginning at white oak tree, bearing
from ye aforesaid Meeting House, that
is to say. from ye Northeasterly cor
ner of ye House N. w. 10 degrees, distant
from ye House 5 links-which tree is
marked S. L. for sequestered land: thence