Details

Subjects:

Stedham, Timothy, -1754.
McKeene, James.
Real property -- New Jersey -- Salem County.
Real property.
Salem County (N.J.) -- History.
New Jersey -- Salem County.

Form/Genre:

Indentures.
Leases.
Legal documents.
Seals (artifacts)
Manuscripts, American.

Summary:

Indenture dated 4 Apr. 1737 recording the lease by John and Mary Hoffman of Salem County, N.J., of a parcel of land in that county to Robert Rains of Mannington, New Jersey. The description of the boundaries refers to neighboring parcels owned by Timothy Stedham (written Steathom in the manuscript) and James McKeene. With and undulating upper edge and the marks and wax seals of John and Mary Hoffman. Witnessed by Benjamin Eaton, Josiah Pennington, and John Jones. On the reverse is a memorandum dated 5 Apr. 1737 signed by Benjamin Acton and Nicholas Gibbon as justices of the peace attesting that Mary Hoffman entered into the transaction voluntarily, without compulsion or coercion by her husband.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.

Cited as:

Oversize LJS Misc-3

Contributor:

Hoffman, Mary, 18th century.
Rains, Robert.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

795394865

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page