Conveyance Document, Signed (3 results)

No Binding. Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Original document for a land sale. Includes printed text and handwriting in black ink. Signed by attorney Philip Douglas and notary public Abraham B. Venable. 3 1/2" x 8 1/2" folded. 8 1/2" x 14" unfolded. Four pages, complete. Folds out into eight panels. Notarized by Abraham B. Venable and recorded by the Sacramento County Recorder's Office. Venable's signature and acknowledgment of sale are on a smaller, tipped-in document. The smaller document and main document are intact overall. They both have glue residue. The main document has a few splits along the seams and at the edges. A Very Good copy. This document is about a land sale in Sacramento, California. Philip Douglas, attorney for William Casson Wilson, signs that for $900.00 in gold U.S. coin, Wilson sells two lots, "Number Five (5) and Six (6) in the Square on Block bounded by I and J Streets and Twentieth (20th) and Twenty-first (21st) Streets," to William Norman. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. Hand written on white waxed paper, legal property document, signed, sealed and delivered red wax stamps. 21" x 30" unfolded, twin ruled red ink lines to perimeter. Conveyance of a piece or parcel of land situate in Mortimer Street Herne Bay in the County of Kent. Diagram to one side showing position of the piece of land. In Very Good clean and bright condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. KENT [Herne Bay].

Carel van Brugge (d. 1682), who has signed this document in his official capacity as the secretary of the High Council, was in fact an Englishman named Charles Bridges who had arrived in New Amsterdam via Curaçao. He came to New Netherland with Stuyvesant in May 1647 and was made commissary at Fort Orange in November 1647, commissary of the provincial accounts in 1651, and provincial secretary and ex officio vendue master in 1652. After the English took over and New Amsterdam became New York, he resumed use of his English name. Thomas Hall (16141670), who is purchasing the Manhattan property referred to in this document, arrived in New Amsterdam in the 1630s, after being captured following a failed attack on Fort Nassau, an English attempt to establish settlement on the Delaware River. By the end of the 1630s he was operating a tobacco plantation, becoming a successful farmer and merchant. He was elected a member of the Eight Men in 1643 and the Nine Men in 1647. Quoted and translated in Gehring's New York Historical Manuscripts: "Appeared.before us,.Gerritt Jansen van Oldenborgh, citizen and inhabitant of New Netherland; and declared to have conveyed to Thomas Hall a certain piece of land according to the patent thereof dated 17 February 1646; containing in all 25½ morgens and 125 rods; together with a marsh which has always been used by the farm called the Pannebackers, or farm No. 5 etc." For the conveyance from Gerritt Jansen Van Oldenborgh to Thomas Hall, see Charles T. Gehring, ed., New York Historical Manuscripts: Dutch, Vols. GG, HH & II, Land Papers (Baltimore, 1980), II-35a (p.119). Bifolium. Dampstaining, some worming to margins, edges worn, separations at folds. Remnants of a paper-covered red wax seal. Still good overall.