This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Acton, Biddle, Clamack, Crispin, Dalbo, Flanigan, Harris, Helms, McGill, Penn, Peterson, Scull, Stanton, Steward Classification: Deed Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/oRB.2ACI/700 Message Board Post: James Flanagan & wife to Joseph Crispin; Book C DEEDS p. 326 - 334, Salem County Clerk's Records, Salem, NJ This Indenture made the first day June of the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred two (1 June 1802) Between James Flanagan of the Township of Upper Penns neck in the County of Salem and State of New Jersey, Yeoman and Mary his wife of the one part and Joseph Crispin of the afores'd. Yeoman, of the other part. Whereas John Helms of Upper Penns Neck, dec'd was in his lifetime Lawfully seized in his Demense as of Fee of in and to a certain tract of land in Penns neck afores'd by virtue of Sundry Deeds of Conveyances (#1)Executed to him by Thomas Penn dated 1738 for ___ hundred and three acres of land more or less, (#2) by William and Thomas Harris dated 1762 for one hundred acres of land and swamp and one other (#3) by William Dalbo dated 1760 for one hundred and fourteen acres of Land and Swamp. And Whereas the said John Helmes (sic) departed this life and by his last Will and Testament dated the 24 May 17889 …., did therein give and devise all his Lands to his son John Helmes during his natural life and at his decease to descend to his heirs, provided his son should die without Issue, then all land and tenements he did by said Last will … give …to his two Grandsons, John Flanigan and James Flanigan, Jr. …. And the said John Helmes, son of the abovesaid Testator died without Issue, Whereby the said John and James Flanigan became Lawfully seized as Tenants in common of in and to all the Estate of which the said John Helmes died seized of reference being had to the before recited Instruments of Writing will more fully at large appear. And Whereas the said John Flanigan by Indenture of Sale and Quitclaim date the First day of March 1796 did convey unto James Flanigan …. and to his heirs and assigns forever one Equal half part of moiety of all the lands tenements etc….which had belonged to their grandfather, John Helmes, deceased, which said …equal half part is bounden as is specified in S'd Quitclaim …. Now this Indenture witnesseth that the said James Flanigan Jr, and Mary his wife for and in Consideration of the sum of Six hundred pounds of current Specie Money of the State to him in hand well and truly paid by the said Joseph Crispin ….hath granted ….….bounded as follows: Beginning at a stone formerly corner to John Flanigan now James Flanigan's land in Nathan Stewards line Thence S51 degrees West 8 chains to a stone corner also to said Steward, Thence S 35 degrees W 14 chains thirty two *(maps says 30) links to a Black oak tree corner to S'd Steward's and Clamacks land Thence S 79 degrees 30" W 8 chains 20 links * ( map says 27) to a maple tree Thence S 62 degrees W 34 chain 50 links to a stone in the swamp, corner to Mc Gills lot * ( lot appears to be an acre or less on map rendition) Thence along the line of said lot N 27 degrees 30" W 27 chains 50 links to a scrub oak Thence in the line of Joseph Crispn's other land N 50 *( map says 30) degrees E seven chains 50 Links to a forked white oak tree Thence N 42 degrees E 9 chains 50 links to a Black oak tree corner to Crispin's other lands Thence N 67 degrees E 14 chains 50 links to a corner at a Black oak tree also a corner to Aaron Peterson lot Thence N 35 degrees 3" W 7 chain 74 links to a water oak stump corner to said Crispin and Stanton Thence Bounding on said Stanton's line N 51 degrees E 27 chain 75 links to a stone near a white oak tree Thence S 39 degrees E 37 chains Bounding on James Flanigan's line to the place of beginning Containing 200 acres & 9/10th of an acre of land, including Aaron Peterson's lot which is Excepted out of the conveyence, remaining 195 acres of land more or less Signed: James Flanigan, Jr. and Mary Flanigan Witnessed: Gideon Scull and Wm Biddle Confirmed 5 June 1802 before Wm Biddle. Recorded June 26, 1802 by Clement Acton, Recorder p. 334 includes a map which does not give any permanent land mark such as the creek or a road, but shows the lot of Aaron Peterson (4 1/2 acre exception) and names the common lines. Discrepancies from map noted in above description of bounds. Map indicates what ground is cleared, meadow, swamp or woodlands. My guess, from the parties involved, this property somewhere in present day Oldmans Twp, between Auburn and Pedricktown, likely not far off Oldmans' Creek, and probably closer to Auburn than not.. Stantons owned land near Beaver Creek and in Auburn, and Crispin owned Auburn ground, but also much other property in the county. Both Gideon Scull and Wm Biddle were in Auburn. (aka Sculltown) Will take finding some adjoining pieces of the puzzle before I can fit this one in precisely. Abstract by VNC