Deed of land for property in current
day Forksville
Thomas Huckell, 1797
Joseph Priestley Northumberland agrees to sell Thomas Huckell a tract
of Land called Strong's half part of which has been cleared by Mullineaux
This part contains in whole four hundred acres which Joseph Priestley agrees
to sell Thomas Huckell at two dollars an acre paid in Manner following,
that is to say in seven several yearly payments and to pay Joseph Priestley
eight per cent per annum on the Principal till the whole is paid including
such Principal and Interest as may from Time to Time be paid; but in case
Thomas Huckle shall pay or cause to be paid Joseph Priestley one third
part of the total amount of the four hundred acres of Land above mentioned
reckoning of the same at one Dollar and a half per acre on or before the
first day January 1798 the other third part with interest on or before
the first day of January 1799 and the third and last payment of Principal
and Interest on or before the first day of January 1800 then paying one
dollar and a half per acre with eight per cent interest on each installment
Joseph Priestley agrees to consider such payment as a full Satisfactory
payment for the four hundred acres of land herein described and to
give Thomas Huckle his heirs Executors Administrators and [? assigns] a
full and clear Title and to indemnify him his heirs Executors etc. from
all claims on the said Land as well as Actions of Law or causes of Actions
so as to give the said Thomas a full and clear title to the aforesaid land.
Strong's Tract is situated above the Forks of the Loyalsocke Creek adjoining
part of the land occupied by _____Warren on the one side and adjoining
the tract or part of the Tract called Forks Tract on the other hand. Joseph
Priestley agrees to give up all Improvements on the aforesaid Tracts to
Thomas Huckle on Consideration of Thomas Huckell using his endeavours to
make a road from the said Lands to join a Road leading from John Hills
to Muncy and Joseph Priestley hereby promises to use his Endeavours to
get a subscription towards defraying the expenses of said road. If
Mullineaux returns back to America Thomas Huckell agrees to pay him
for the improvements made on the said tract of land. Such Improvements
to be viewed and ascertained by Jas. Arkwright and John Huckell both
of Loyalsocke in Lycoming County in the State of Pennsylvania within which
county the said Tract of Lands is situated. In witness of this agreement
I set my hand this fifteenth day of May 1797. Joseph Priestley Jr. Witness
Thomas Langford, Lycoming County.
Thomas Langford personally appeared before me Henry Shoemaker one of
the Justices of the Peace for said county and being sworn according to
Law doth depose and say that he was present at Northumberland at the executing
of this Deed and saw Joseph Priestley sign seal and deliver the said Deed
with his own hand and further the said deponent sayeth not. Sworn and subscribed
this twenty fourth day of June one thousand seven hundred and ninety seven.
Thomas Langford Before me Henry Shoemaker.
Recorded the twenty seventh of June 1797. M. Kidd, Recorder.
Lycoming County Courthouse
Williamsport, Pennsylvania
Deed Book 2 page 359