Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Hoffman, John, 18th cent
• Hoffman, Mary, 18th cent
• Rains, Robert

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5763076
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5763076

Publisher

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.

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Support

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Real property--New Jersey--Salem County

Genres

• Indentures
• Leases
• Legal documents
• Seals (artifacts)
• Manuscripts, American--18th century

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