Hi Liz, and others Today I ordered FHL film #460031 from the Family History Library catalog - https://familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=136233&disp=East+Jersey+deeds%2C+1667-1783++ This film includes Book I of the East Jersey Deeds. Hopefully the images on the film will be in good enough condition to get a good digital photo of them. It will be a few weeks before it arrives at the local FHL Center. After spending a little time looking through Hutchinson's "East New Jersey Land Records, 1702-1717 (Books H, I, and "Little K") I noticed that a very large number of the deeds in Book I are all recorded on 6 September 1710. The dates of the deeds themselves vary. Many of the witnesses are known Kings Co. men, some of whom I don't believe had a presence in Monmouth Co., NJ (Henry Filkin for example who lived out his life at Flatbush). I'm wondering if many of these deeds where not actually originally drawn up and signed at the physical location of Kings County, NY and then since (as you mention) the grantee takes possession, they were recorded afterwards in New Jersey (perhaps in mass at some time when someone in position to do so decided that that might be a good idea). I'll get back to you all in few weeks. Chris Chester On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 9:16 AM, E Johnson <iris.gates@gmail.com> wrote: > > I guess the only way we can solve this puzzle is by finding the original > East Jersey Land Deeds of 3 Apr 1701 and 10 Nov 1705 and see what marks > Hendrick Hendrickson made on them. > > I understood that the original deed (signed, sealed, witnessed and > endorsed) became the possession of the grantee. This is the reason why the > clerk's copies for township or county were made. I had just asked this > question the other day in another forum, for a similar reason. I had wanted > to see the handwriting in two different conveyances made five months apart > but recorded consecutively on the same day, and to check the name of the > grantee in the second deed. These were conveyed in southern NJ in 1823, but > the whole state --all of the states --were operating under English law > since 1664. > > Liz J > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Thanks Chris! If I make it to SLC sometime in the next couple of weeks is there anything you want me to look up for you? ----- Original Message ----- From: "CChester" <ccbnf1404@gmail.com> To: <dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2013 11:55 AM Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Hendrick Hendrickson and Van Dyke Families > Hi Liz, and others > > Today I ordered FHL film #460031 from the Family History Library catalog - > https://familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=136233&disp=East+Jersey+deeds%2C+1667-1783++ > > This film includes Book I of the East Jersey Deeds. Hopefully the images > on > the film will be in good enough condition to get a good digital photo of > them. It will be a few weeks before it arrives at the local FHL Center. > > After spending a little time looking through Hutchinson's "East New Jersey > Land Records, 1702-1717 (Books H, I, and "Little K") I noticed that a very > large number of the deeds in Book I are all recorded on 6 September 1710. > The dates of the deeds themselves vary. Many of the witnesses are known > Kings Co. men, some of whom I don't believe had a presence in Monmouth > Co., > NJ (Henry Filkin for example who lived out his life at Flatbush). I'm > wondering if many of these deeds where not actually originally drawn up > and > signed at the physical location of Kings County, NY and then since (as you > mention) the grantee takes possession, they were recorded afterwards in > New > Jersey (perhaps in mass at some time when someone in position to do so > decided that that might be a good idea). > > I'll get back to you all in few weeks. > > Chris Chester > > > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 9:16 AM, E Johnson <iris.gates@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > I guess the only way we can solve this puzzle is by finding the >> > original >> East Jersey Land Deeds of 3 Apr 1701 and 10 Nov 1705 and see what marks >> Hendrick Hendrickson made on them. >> >> I understood that the original deed (signed, sealed, witnessed and >> endorsed) became the possession of the grantee. This is the reason why >> the >> clerk's copies for township or county were made. I had just asked this >> question the other day in another forum, for a similar reason. I had >> wanted >> to see the handwriting in two different conveyances made five months >> apart >> but recorded consecutively on the same day, and to check the name of the >> grantee in the second deed. These were conveyed in southern NJ in 1823, >> but >> the whole state --all of the states --were operating under English law >> since 1664. >> >> Liz J >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >