Made
the 21st day of September, in
the year of One Thousand
nine
hundred
and twenty-seven.
Between Aaron
Howard Genung and Alice H. Genung, his wife of
the
Town
of Dryden, Tompkins County, New York.
Part ______________of
the first part, and _________________________________________
_________________________part
________of the second part,
(Second
party
is blank)
Whitnesseth
– That the said part of the first part, for and in consideration of
the
sum of
ONE DOLLAR AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS--------------Dollars
($1.00),
lawful money of the United States,
_____________________________________________
___________________________________paid
by the said part _________________________________ of the second part,
do hereby grand and release unto the said part
___________________________of
the second part, ________________________________________________heirs
and assigns forever,
All that Tract,
or Parcel of Land, situated in the Town of Dryden,
County
of
Tompkins and State of NewYork, being a part of Lot No. 84
in
the said
Town, bounded and described as follows, to wit: Beginning
at
the north-west
corner of said lot, thence running south on the
west
line
of said lot to land heretofore conveyed by Peleg Ellis
to
Ishabod
Palmerston and now occupied by John McMaster; thence
east
to the
highway leading to Caroline; thence northerly along
the
center
of said highway to the north-west corner of land hereto-
fore
conveyed
by Peleg Ellis to Johnathan Luce, thence east on
said
Luce’s
north line 88 rods to a stake for a corner; thence north
to
the highway,
running east and west by the school house; thence
north
along
the center of the highway to the north line of said lot No. 84
and thence west 120 rods to the place of beginning supposed to
contain 110 Acres more or less subject, however, to all
highways
laid out thereon, being the same premises described in a
deed
from
Peleg Ellis and wife to John M. Smith dated November 4th,
1850,
and
recorded in the Tompkins Count Clerk’s Office in Liber
55
of Deeds
at page 297 excepting and reserving the following described parcels:
One of four
acres conveyed by John M. Smith and wife to John
J.
Ellis
by deed dated January 11th, 1869, and recorded in the
Tompkins
County Clerk’s Office in Liber 3 of Dryden Deeds at page
540.
One of 9 and
54/100 of an Acre conveyed by John M. Smith and
wife
to Henry
Northrup and Mary Northrup by deed dated December 1st,
1871,
and
recorded in the Tompkins County Clerk’s Office in Liber
4
of Dryden
Deeds at page 362; also reserving two acres sold by
John
Smith
and wife to the Ellis Hollow Cheese and Butter Co. by deed
dated
January
7th, 1869, and recorded in the Tompkins County Clerk’s
Office
in
Liber 4 of Dryden Deeds at page 500.
Also that
parcel conveyed by Ann H. Smith to the Trustees of
the
Methodist
Episcopal Church in Ellis Hollow by deed dated
February
27, 1895, and recorded in the Tompkins County Clerk’s
Office
in
Liber 147 of Deeds at page 66, said parcel being a lot 153 feet
deep one side and 160 feet deep the other by 120 feet
wide.
Also excepting
and reserving the part of said farm now owned
by
Malvina
Zimmer, William Bennett, and Charles McGill. Also excepting
and
reserving
to the Aaron Howard Genung eight and fifteen-sixteen
hundredths
(8 15/16) acres more or less. On the westerly side of said farm bounded
and described as follows: Commencing at the northwest corner of
the lands hereby reserved, where the line of lands of James Gleason and
Otis Mitchell, intersect; running thence east on said Lot line
twenty (20) rods to an iron stake; thence south, to the center
of
the highway;
thence along the center of the highway – west four (4) rods; thence south
twenty one (21) rods; thence west sixteen (16) rods, to the center
of the highway leading to Caroline; thence north and across the
highway seventy-five and three-fourths (75 ¾ rods to the place
of beginning.
There is hereby
conveyed the John M. Smith farm, so called, which was
conveyed by deed recorded in Tompkins County Clerk’s Office in Book 203
of Deeds at page 579, less the above reservations and exceptions.
There is also
hereby conveyed a strip of land in said town of Dryden Tompkins
County, N. Y., on Lot No. 84 in said town and bounded and described
as follows; on the north by the center of the highway a distance
of two rods; on the west by lands formerly owned by John
M.
Smith
and later by Eda Banfield; on the east by lands formerly owned by
Eliza Loomis and now owned or occupied by Agnes Jursic; being two rods
wide east and west and extending southerly bounded by parallel
lines twenty rods from the center of the highway and being the premises
conveyed to Eda Banfield by deed recorded in Tompkins County Clerk’s
Office in Book 186 of Deeds at page 599, to which reference
is hereby made.
State
of New
York
County of
Tompkins
City of Ithaca
On this 21st
day of September, in the year One thousand nine hundred and
twenty-seven,
before me, the subscriber, personally appeared Aaron Howard Genung and
Alice H. Genung to me personally known to be the same persons described
in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and they each duly
acknowledged
to me that they executed the same
