Bidspirit auction | 1858 New York State Mortgage

1858 New York State Mortgage Indenture Holland Land Company Purchase Orleans County - This original handwritten mortgage indenture is dated March 6, 1858, and was recorded on March 10, 1858. The document was produced on a pre-printed form from H. Anstice and Co., Stationers, located at 27 Nassau Street, New York. The agreement is between Dexter Mason and his wife Sarah Ann Mason of the Town of Shelby, Orleans County, New York, and James McDaniels of the Town of Bennington, Bennington County, Vermont. The mortgage is for the sum of one thousand dollars and concerns a specific tract of land situated in the Town of Shelby. The property is identified as part of Lot number Eight in Township number Fourteen in the Third Range of Townships of the Holland Land Company Purchase. The text includes detailed boundary measurements in chains and links, referencing adjacent properties owned by William Parsons, Allen Mason, Folsom Richardson, and Elisha T. Weaver. The document features the signatures of Dexter Mason and Sarah Ann Mason on the final page, accompanied by two red embossed wax seals. It is witnessed by J. J. Bigelow, Justice of the Peace, and signed on the recording panel by Deputy Clerk G. A. Porter, noting the document was recorded in Book of Mortgages Number 30 on page 500. 14 inches x 18 inches.