2 Year Mortgage of Jacob Benton Junior 1760
Page 588 Harwinton Land Record Book 2
Know all men by these presents that I Jacob Benton Junior of Harwinton in Litchfield County and Colony of Connecticut for the consideration of Lawfull money to me in hand paid by Isaac Man John Smith Abraham Lot Isaac Low Walter Frankline & Samuel Frankline merchants all of the City and Province of New York do therefore give grant bargain sell alien and confirm unto them the said Isaac Man John Smith Abraham Lot Isaac Low Walter Frankline and Samuel Frankline a certain tract of land Situate and Lying in said Harwinton with my dwelling house and barn thereon standing & containing 32 acres be the same more or less butted and bounded as follows viz: West on Highway South on land of Cyprian Webster Esquire East on land of Joseph Skinner in part and part upon David Wilcox’s land and North upon Joseph Cook’s land – To Have and to hold the above granted and bargained premises with all the privileges and appurtenances thereof unto them the said Isaac Man John Smith Abraham Lot Isaac Low Walter Frankline & Samuel Frankline their heirs and assigns fore ever to their own proper use and behoof and also I the said Jacob Benton Junior do for my self my heirs executors administrators & assigns Covenant sith them the said Isaac Man John Smith Abraham Lot Isaac Low Samuel Frankline and Walter Frankline their heirs and assigns that at and until the ensealing hereof I am well seized of the premises as a good indefeasible Estate in Fee Simple and have good right to bargain & sell the same in manner and form as above written and that the same is free from all encumbrances whatsoever and further more the said Jacob Benton Junior Do by these presents bind my self and my heirs forever to Warrant and Defend the above granted and bargained premises to them the said Man Smith Lot Low and Frankline their heirs and assigns forever against all claims and demands whatsoever provided never the less that if the above named Jacob Benton Junior his heirs or assigns shall within two years next ensuing the date hereof will and truly pay unto the said Man Smith Lot Low Samuel Frankline and Walter Frankline and also to Jacob Montonge Benjamin Hildridge Isaac Latritch Obadiah Wells all of the City of New York aforesaid the sum of one thousand & sixty six pounds current money of New York which is now due from said Benton to them and is to be paid unto them respectively on proportion to the rights of each of their respective demands then the foregoing deed to be null and void else to remain in full force and value forever in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this sixteenth day of October AD one thousand seven hundred and sixty and in the 34th year of the Reign of George the Second Signed sealed and Delivered in presence of Thomas SeymourReynold Marvin Jacob Benton Junior and Seal
Litchfield County Harwinton October 16th 1760 personally appeared Mr. Jacob Benton Junior Ensealer of the foregoing instrument and acknowledged the same to be his free act and deed before me Abijah Catling Justice Peace
October 16 day 1760 then I received this deed for record and here? I have received the same at large atst? Cyprian Webster Clerk