Nixon to Woods 1791
TO ALL
PEOPLE to whom these presents shall come the Commisioners of the
county
of Bedford in the Commonwealth of PA send Greeting, whereas a
certain
tract of land being in the township of Hopewell and in the county
aforesaid
said to be the property now or late of George Nixon or as such
returned
to the board of Commisioners for said county was duly rated
charged
and assayed? with the of taxes by virtue of sundry acts of
assembly
for levying and raising the following taxes that is to say for
the
taxes due and unpaid upon the same for the year 1789 amounting to
eight
shillings state tax and four shillings county tax also thirteen
shillings
and eight pence cost and charges accrued upon the same by
reasons
of the now payment of the taxes aforesaid as in and by the
Records
of the said Commisioners Reference thereunto being had will
more
fully and at large appears and whereas no person appeared to pay
the
taxes aforesaid assayed and charged upon the said land within the
time
limited by land the said commissioners agreeable to the directions
contained
in the acts of Assembly for Raising the said taxes did on or
about
the eithteenth day of August last give public notice in some of
the
English and German newspapers and further did set up hand bills
advertising
the tract aforesaid to pay the aforesaid taxes due thereon
and
whereas the time allowed by law for the owner or owners aforesaid
to make
payment of the taxes aforesaid having fully
____ and they
having
refused or neglected to pay and Discharge the said taxes as by
law
they were required the said commisioners did on the fifth day of
August
instant by public venders expose to sale the said tract of ground
situate
on the waters of yellow Creek in the township and County aforesaid
bounded
and described as follows to wit, Beginning at a black oak South
nineteen
degrees East one hundred and forty four perches to a white
oak
thence by land in the name of George Nixon north eighty nine
degrees
East three hundred perches to a white oak-thence by Robert
McPhersons
lands north twelve degrees West one hundred and Eighteen
perches
to a white oak, thence by Edward Elliott's land north eighty
seven
degrees West three hundred and nineteen perches to the place of
Beginning
containing two hundred and twenty eight acres and the usual
allowance
of six per cent for roads, Surveyed on
an order of survey
granted
to George Nixon, dated May the first 1767 No 3563.
Know ye that for and in consideration of the
sum of five pounds lawful
money
of the commonwealth aforesaid part to
the said commisioners by
George
Woods, Esq of the town of Bedford the Receipt whereof is hereby
acknowledged
he being the best and highest bidder
the said commisioners
have
sold granted released aligned confirmed and delivered and by these
presents
do sell grant release align confirm and deliver unto the said
George
Woods and his heirs and assigns all that the aforesaid tract to
the
said George Woods, sold at public vindue aforesaid situated bounded
and
being as the same is herein before described to go there with all and
singular
inprovements ways waters water courses rights liberties
priveliges
and Hereditainments whatsoever ______ belonging to have
and to
hold the premises hereby granted with the appurtenances unto
the
said George Woods his heirs and assigns to the only proper use
and
behold of the said George and his heirs and assigns forever, free
from
all the Estate, Right and ___ of the
aforesaid delinquent or
of any person or persons claiming under him,
and witness whereof
Anthony
Nuigle and Matthew Taylor two of the present commonisioners for
the
county aforesaid have hereunto set their hands and caused the
Common
Seal of the commisioners to be affixed dated the fifteenth day
of
August in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and ninty
one.
Sealed
and Delivered in
Anthony Nawgels
The
Presence of us Matthew Taylor
Hugh
Barclay, George Woods Jr.
Commisioners
Bedford Co, PA before me one
of the Justices of the peace
in and
for the county of Bedford aforesaid personally came the Commisioners
within
named and acknowledged the within Deed Poll to be their act and
Deeds
for the purpose therein mentioned
Witness my hand and Seal, the seventh day of July 1796
Recorded
and compared with the original the 9th day of July A. D. 1791
John Anderson, Recorder