PARKE
GEORGE WILKINS
- MAY 1877
SHERIFF'S DEEDS
JUDGEMENT BOOK
1 PAGES 99-100
This Indenture, Made this First day of
January A.D. 1877 between George Chapman, Sheriff of Parke County in the State
of Indiana of the first part and George Wilkins of the County of Parke and
State of Indiana of the second part, Witnesseth, That whereas at the October
Term of the Parke Circuit Court A.D. 1875, George Wilkins recovered by
judgement of said County in a certain action therein against William Nichell
and James Moore for the sum of Thirty Nine Hundred and Nine Dollars and
Nineteen cents for his damages, together with the further sum of Twenty One
dollars and Eighty Three cents for his costs in that behalf expended; and a
decree for the sale of all the interest, estate, right and title of the
defendants William Nichell and James Moore in and to certain Real Estate,
described therein as follows, viz: A part of the East half of the South West
quarter of Section Twenty in Township Seventeen North Range Seven West
commencing at the South East corner of said quarter thence West to Mill Creek,
thence up said Creek with its Meanderings of the same to the East line of said
quarter, thence South forty seven poles to the place of beginning and the South
East quarter of the South East quarter of said section, Township and Range and
the West half of the South East quarter of said section, Township and Range
except in last named piece three acres towit: Commencing at the North West
corner of said half quarter, thence South thirty four poles, thence East
fourteen poles thence North thirty four poles, thence West fourteen poles. Containing one hundred and twenty acres in
Parke County Indiana all without any relief whatever from valuation or
appraisement laws, as by the record thereof remaining in said court more fully
appears. And Whereas, afterwards,
to=wit: on the eleventh day of November, A.D. 1875, a copy of said judgement
and decree was duly issued and under the seal of said Court, attested by the Clerk
thereof directed to the Sheriff of the County of Parke, commanding him that
after due and legal notice of the time and place of making the same, he should
sell the lands above described with all the interest, estate, right and title
of the defendants William Nichell and James Moore therein, or so much and such
parts thereof as might be necessary according to the terms of said decree, to
pay and satisfy the judgement aforesaid, with the interest and costs thereon:
and that he should, in like manner, also make and return all interests and
accruing costs thereon, and make due return of said writ to the Clerk's Office,
at the expiration of one hundred and eighty days from the date of the same.
And Whereas, said copy of judgement and
order of sale, on the eleventh day of November A.D. 1875 came to the hands of
George Chapman, then the Sheriff of said County to be executed; and the said
George Chapman as Sheriff as aforesaid, having legally advertised the same, did
on the eleventh day of December A.D. 1875 at the door of the Court House in
Rockville in the County aforesaid, between the hours prescribed by law, at
public auction first expose to sale the rents and profits for a term not
exceeding seven of paid estate of William Nichels and James Moore in and to
said real estate, and no person biding for the same, then offered at public
auction aforesaid, all the rights, title and interest, in fee=simple of the
said William Nichels and James Moore, in and to said estate, and the said
George Wilkins did then and there bid the sum of twenty five hundred dollars
and no cents, and no person bidding more, the same was, in due form, openly
struck off and sold to the said George Wilkins for the said sum of twenty five
hundred dollars and no cents, he being the highest and best bidder, and that
being the highest price bid for the same.
And Whereas, also on said Eleventh day of
December A.D. 1875, as required by law, said Sheriff executed to said purchaser
a certificate setting forth the foregoing facts, with the condition appended
that if said premises were not redeemed within one year from the date thereof,
by payment of the purchase money, with ten per centum interest thereon, by said
judgement defendants William Nichell and James Moore, their heirs or assigns to
said purchaser his heirs or assigns, said George Wilkins would be entitled to a
Deed of Conveyance therefor.
Now, therefore, to confirm to said George
Wilkins the sale so made as aforesaid the said George Chapman, as Sheriff as
aforesaid in consideration of said sum of Twenty five hundred Dollars and no
cents, to him in hand paid by said George Wilkins, the receipt whereof is
hereby acknowledged, and of the non=redemption of said real estate as provided
by law, hath granted, bargained and sold and doth by these presents grant,
bargain, sell, convey and confirm, to the said George Wilkins his heirs and
assigns forever, all the following real estate situate in the county of Parke
and state of Indiana, to=wit: A part of
the East half of the SW 1/4 Section 20 in Township 17 North Range 7 West Commencing at the SE corner of said quarter,
thence West to Mill Creek, thence up said Creek with the meanderings of the
same to the E line of said quarter
thence South 47 poles to the place of beginning. and the E 1/4 of the SE
1/4 of said Section Town and Range and the W 1/2 of the SE 1/4 of said Section
Town Range, Except in last named piece three acres to=wit: Commencing at the North West corner of said
half quarter thence South 34 poles, thence East 14 poles, thence North 34
poles, thence West 14 poles, containing 120 acres in Parke County Indiana.
To have and to hold, all and singular, the
premises aforesaid with the privileges and appurtenances, to the said George
Wilkins, his heirs and assigns, forever, in a full and ample a manner as the
same was held by William Nichels and James Moore immediately before the
execution of the mortgage mentioned in said decree, foreclosing the same.
In Witness Whereof, the said George Chapman,
as Sheriff, as aforesaid, has hereunto set his hand and seal, the day and year
first above written
George
Chapman
State of
Before me, William White Recorder in and for
said County personally came George Chapman Sheriff of said County, and
acknowledged the foregoing conveyance to be his voluntary act and deed, as such
Sheriff.
In Witness Whereof I hereunto subscribe my
name and affix my Seal of office this 1st day of January A.D. 1877
William White
Rec. Parke Co.
I Certify that the
Deed of which the above and foregoing is a true copy was duly stamped, as
provided by Act of Congress, and recorded on the 1st day of January 1877 at 1
o'clock P.M.
Wm White Recorder of Parke Co.
By
F. White Dept
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