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Alice Farnam vs. Heloise H. Durant legal correspondence about case plus land deeds, 1875-1890

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Book No. 52,
as page 260
This Indenture, Made this twenty-third day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine Between John Straight & Frances J. his wife o fthe town of Johnsburgh, Warren County & State of New York. of the first part and Heloise H. Durant of the same place of the second part,
Witnesseth, that the said parties of the first part in consideration of the sum of Two hundred Dollars to them duly paid have sold and By these Presents does grant and convey to the said party of the second part her heirs and assigns All that certain piece or parcel of land lying and being in the town of Chester, Warren County, and State of New York in the [illegible] between township number Twelve and fourteen of Tatten & Crossfields Purchase Commencing to survey at the easterly end of the Iron Bridge over the Hudson River at North Creek at a point in the center of the highway at low water mark, running from thence north 25 degrees east eleven chains and fifty links along the center of said highway to the road leading to Chester; from thence in a north-westerly direction along the highway to a point where the highway comes to the east bank of the Hudson River 16. chains; from thence down the bank of the said Hudson River as it winds and turns

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Book No. 52, as page 260 This Indenture, Made this twenty-third day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine Between John Straight & Frances J. his wife o fthe town of Johnsburgh, Warren County & State of New York. of the first part and Heloise H. Durant of the same place of the second part, Witnesseth, that the said parties of the first part in consideration of the sum of Two hundred Dollars to them duly paid have sold and By these Presents does grant and convey to the said party of the second part her heirs and assigns All that certain piece or parcel of land lying and being in the town of Chester, Warren County, and State of New York in the [illegible] between township number Twelve and fourteen of Tatten & Crossfields Purchase Commencing to survey at the easterly end of the Iron Bridge over the Hudson River at North Creek at a point in the center of the highway at low water mark, running from thence north 25 degrees east eleven chains and fifty links along the center of said highway to the road leading to Chester; from thence in a north-westerly direction along the highway to a point where the highway comes to the east bank of the Hudson River 16. chains; from thence down the bank of the said Hudson River as it winds and turns