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- GLC#
- GLC02308
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- 20 June 1804
- Author/Creator
- Hamilton, Alexander, 1757-1804
- Title
- [Indentures for the sale of a farm on the Raritan River in New Jersey]
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 4 p. : docket ; Height: 33 cm, Width: 21 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Age of Jefferson & Madison
Also signed by Ann Pierce, Charles Wilkes, and Henry Brockholst Livingston. Records a sequence of ownership of a farm property. Pages 1 and 2 are the indenture of Ann Pierce selling a farm "on the south side of the Raritan River in the county of Somerset in the State of New Jersey about a mile and a half above the town of New Brunswick" to Hamilton on 30 April 1803. Certifies that he may sell the land and use the proceeds to pay a bond of Nathaniel Pendleton and John Bard. Page 3 is Hamilton's indenture, which includes his name written five times, signed and sealed by Hamilton and witnessed by Thomas L. Ogden, selling the farm to Wilkes. Also on page 3-4 is an autograph note signed by Wilkes and dated 25 June 1804 releasing title of the property to Charles Henry Stone of New Jersey. Page 4, dated 8 December 1818, is a statement verifying the document, which is written and signed by Livingston.
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