Deed (March 21 1840)

James Dawson to Thomas Langill
Registered March 21 1840
At 2 O’clock PM on the oath of James W. Dawson

Know all men by these presents that I James Dawson, bookseller, of Pictou, in the County of Pictou, in the province of Nova Scotia in consideration of the sum of fifty pounds the receipt thereof I hereby acknowledge.

Hath granted, bargained, sold, and enfeoffed onto Thomas Langill of River John, in the county aforesaid, his heirs and assigns all that certain lot of land being on the west side of River John , abutted and bounded as follows

Beginning at a hemlock stub on the western bank of the said River John, marked ED, being the full north east corner of a lot of land occupied by one George Perrin junior, thence west 112 chains to a dry pine tree marked EDAT, thence 9 chains 10 links t a small hemlock, thence east 111 chains to the river thence up stream to the place of beginning, containing 100 acres with the appurtenances

To have and to hold, the same to him the said Thomas Langill his heirs and assigns forever

Witness my hand and seal this 21st day of March AD 1841


Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of
James W Dawson
George Campbell



Mary Dawson
On this 21st day of March 1840 before me the subscriber, one of her Majesty’s
Justice of the Peace for the county of Pictou, formally came and appeared before me Mary Dawson who being by me examined separate and apart from her said husband declared that she voluntarily and without compulsion from her said husband did execute the forgoing deed for the purposes therein mentioned, and did thereby relinquish all right of Dower or otherwise in and to the lands thereby conveyed
George Campbell J.P.


source: FHL film # 578972, vol. 23, p. 323
transcribed by Bob Langill