Description McKenzie Deed

Elizabeth McKenzie

Fathers?

To

Donald McKenzie

Kenneth McKenzie

Release

 

Province of Nova Scotia’s registrars office Pictou 7^th July 1863. I certify that the within instrument was duly registered at _ of the above day in _ 50_ 137 on the _ of George McDonald a _ witness there to _ to law.

John Ferguson

Reg.

 

This indenture made this fourteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty six - Between Elizabeth McKenzie of the Green Hill so called in the district of Pictou widow and relict of Angus McKenzie late of the place aforesaid, deceased. Alexander McKenzie of _ in the county of Sydney, Gentlemen and Isabella his wife, William Munro of the Eight Mile Brook in the said district, Farmer and Margaret his wife, John McKenzie of the Four Mile Brook in the said district, Farmer and Catherine his wife, Nancy McKenzie of the Green Hill aforesaid spinster, Andrew McKay of the Green Hill aforesaid farmer and Catherine his wife, and George Murray of the Wes River of  Pictou in the said district, carpenter and Christy his wife - of the one part and – Donald McKenzie and Kenneth McKenzie both of the Green Hill aforesaid in the district aforesaid, farmers of the other part. Whereas the said Angus McKenzie lately died _, leaving a widow, namely the said Elizabeth McKenzie, and sundry children, namely the said Alexander McKenzie, Margaret, the wife of the said William Munro, the said John McKenzie, the said Donald McKenzie, the said Nancy McKenzie, the said Kenneth McKenzie, the said Catherine wife of the said Andrew McKay, and Christy the wife of the said George Murray, and also leaving real estate land consisting of houses, and other buildings with the apparatuses, situate, lying and being at the Green Hill aforesaid in the said district which is abutted, bounded, and described as follows that is to say, bounded on the north by the land of Finlay McDonald and William Matheson, on the west by land belonging to Robert Stewart and George Reid, on the south, by land belonging to William Munro, and on the east by the land of Alexander Fraser, containing in the whole three hundred acres and being parcel of a lot granted by government to the said Angus McKenzie, deceased, containing originally five hundred and fifty acres and whereas the said Elizabeth McKenzie hath agreed and consented to remain and _ with the said Donald McKenzie and Kenneth McKenzie, and not to have her _ in and out of the said lands and premises and the said Alexander McKenzie did in the life time of the said Angus McKenzie receive his full share and portion of and _ his said father Angus McKenzie and the said John McKenzie hath received out of the full three hundred acres and one hundred acres, at the south west corner thereof, which is now in possession of one Ronald McLuarry and was intended to have been granted into him by his father and the said Nancy McKenzie being unmarried is likewise to remain with the said Donald and Kenneth and to be by them maintained and supported, and whereas it was also the intention of the said Angus McKenzie to have disposed of the said land and premises that they the said Donald McKenzie and Kenneth McKenzie should inherit, process, enjoy, retain, and hold the said described premises to them, their heirs, and assigns forever, always accepting thereout, the one hundred acres now in the possession of the said Ronald McLuarry and to be charged with the support and maintenance of their said mother Elizabeth McKenzie, and whereas the said Donald McKenzie and the said Kenneth McKenzie have undertaken to support and maintain the said Elizabeth McKenzie and the said Nancy McKenzie, and to release to the said Ronald McLuarry all their right and title in and to the said one hundred acres now in his possession being the same part formally allotted to the said John McKenzie by his father and by the said John McKenzie given in exchange for other lands belonging to the said Ronald McLuarry. Now this Indenture Witnesseth that in consideration of the premises and for the perfecting the _ of the said Angus McKenzie and for settling and adjusting all and any disputes and _ which may arise relating to or considering the said land and premises and also in the consideration of the farm of five shillings of lawful money of Nova Scotia to them in hand paid at or before the sealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is herby acknowledged, they the said Elizabeth McKenzie, Alexander McKenzie and Isabella his wife, William Munro and Margaret his wife, John McKenzie and Catherine his wife, Nancy McKenzie, Alexander McKay and Catherine his wife, and George Murray and Christy his wife, have and each of them hath, revised, released, and forever quitted claim and by these presents do and each of them doth revise, release and forever quit claim into them the said Donald McKenzie and Kenneth McKenzie their heirs and assigns all and _ the aforesaid lands and premises here before described of which the said Angus McKenzie died possessed and which is now in the actual proportion of them the said Donald McKenzie and Kenneth McKenzie accepting only the one hundred acres in possession of the said Ronald McLuarry and which they the said Donald McKenzie and Kenneth McKenzie by deed hearing even date herewith have released unto him the said Ronald McLuarry to have and to gold the before described lands and premises released, or intended so to be to them the said Donald McKenzie and Kenneth McKenzie their and each of their heirs and assigns forever to their sole use benefit and behoof in as full free and _ a _ as he the said Angus McKenzie held the farm in his life time. In witness whereof the said parties have to these presents their hands and seals subscribed and set the day and year first above writing:

 

• Elizabeth McKenzie
• Alexander McKenzie
• Donald McKenzie
• William Munro
• Margaret Munro
• John McKenzie
• Katherine McKenzie
• Nancy McKenzie
• Alexander McKay
• Kenneth McKenzie
• George Murray
• Christy Murray

 

 

10^th May 1863

 

Signed, sealed, and delivered in the presence of                 

 

George McDonald

Alexander Fraser

 

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County of Halifax

District of Pictou

 

            On this day in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty _ personally appeared before me and the subscriber one of his majesty’s justices of the inferior court of common pleas in and for the said district of Pictou, Margret wife of William Munro, Catherine wife of Andrew McKay, and Christy wife of George Murray whose names are subscribed to the foregoing deed and who being by me examined separate and apart from her said husband did acknowledge that they did _ _ _ _ and without any complication from their said husbands sign, seal, execute, and deliver the foregoing deed for the purpose therein mentioned contained, _ and set forth all which I do hereby certify.

 

 

Personally appeared before me the subscriber, one of his majesty’s justices of the peace for the county of _ Isabella, wife of the _ named Alexander McKenzie whose name is subscribed to the foregoing deed who being by me examined separate and apart from her said husband acknowledges that she did freely voluntarily and without any compulsion from her said husband sign, seal, execute and deliver the forgoing deed for the purposes therein contained _set forth: (next two lines illegible)

 

           

            On the tenth day of May in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared before me the subscriber one of her majesty’s justices of the peace for the county of Pictou. Catherine the wife of Andrew McKay and Christy the wife of George Murray and on this seventh day of July in the year of the aforesaid, Catherine, the wife of John McKenzie whose names are subscribed in the foregoing deed who being by me respectfully examined separate and apart from their said husbands acknowledges that they did freely and voluntarily and without any force or compulsion from their said husbands respectively sign, seal, execute and deliver the foregoing deed for the purposes therein mentioned containing _ and set forth – all which I do hereby certify.  

 

George McDonald