This Indenture made this Fourteenth day of October in the year of Our Lord One thousand and eight hundred and seventy one

              Between Daniel C Keyser Referee in the action hereinafter mentioned of Kingston in the County of Ulster and State of New York party of the first part and William H Dunning, Sarah Matilda Mygatt and Angeline C Darling as surviving executor of and trustees under the last will and testament of Jacob A Robertson deceased of the City and County of New York parties of the second part

            Whereas at a special term of the Supreme Court of the State of New York held at the City Hall in the City of Albany on the thirtieth day of August One thousand eight hundred and seventy one it was among other things ordered adjudged and decreed by the said Court in a certain action pending in the said Court – between the said William H Dunning, Sarah Matilda Mygatt and Angeline E Darling as surviving executors of and Trustees under the last will and testament of Jacob A Robertson deceased plaintiff against Robert L Pell, Joshua Bailey and Rebecca his wife Oscar Anne a figure in bankruptcy of Joshua Biley and others defendants that all and Singular the premises described in a mortgage executed by Robert L Pell and Maria Louisa his wife to Jacob A Robertson and recorded in Ulster County Clerks Office in Liber 78 at page 299 and being the same premises mentioned in the complaint in said action and in said judgment described in so much thereof as might be sufficient to raise the amount due to the plaintiff for principal and costs in said action and which might be sold separately without material injury to the parties interested be sold at public auction according to the course and practice of said Court by or under the direction of the said Daniel E Keyser who as appointed a referee in said action and to whom it was referred by the said order and judgment of the said Court among other things to make such sale that the said sale be made in the County where the said mortgaged premises or the greater part thereof are situated that the said referee give public notice of the time and place of such sale according to the course and practice of said Court and that any of the parties in Said action might become a purchaser on such sale that

            Said Referee execute to the purchaser or purchasers of the said mortgaged premises or such part or parts thereof as shall be sold a good and sufficient deed or deeds of conveyance for the  same and

              Whereas the said Referee in Pursuance of the Order and judgment of the said Court did on the Fourteenth day of October One thousand eight hundred and seventy one sell at public auction at the Court House in the Village of Kingston in Said County of Ulster the premises in the said order and judgment mentioned due notice of the time and place of such sale being first given agreeably to the said order at which sale the premises hereinafter described were struck off to the said parties of the second part for the sum of Three Thousand five hundred dollars that being the highest sum bidden for the same one

             Whereas the said Referee in pursuance of the Order and judgment of the said Court did on the Fourteenth day of October One thousand eight hundred and seventy one sell at public auction at the Court House in the Village of Kingston in said County of Ulster the premises in the said Order and judgment mentioned due notice of the time and place of such sale being first given agreeably to the said order at which Sale the premises hereinafter described were struck off to the said parties of the second part for the sum of Three thousand five hundred dollars that being the highest sum bidden for the same

            Now this Indenture Witnesseth that the said Referee the party of the first part to these presents in order to carry into effect the sale so made by him as aforesaid in pursuance of the order and judgment of the said Court and in conformity to the Statute in such case made and provided and also in consideration of the premises and of the said sum of money so bidden as aforesaid having been first duly paid by the said party of the second part—the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged hath bargained and sold and by these presents doth grant and convey unto the said party of the second part 

            All that certain farm of land Situate in the town of Esopus and County of Ulster and known as the homestead farm of John Beaver deceased and is bounded generally as follows on the North by lands belonging to the heirs of Nicholas Murphy deceased and the factory lot on the East by lands of said Pell and Mrs. Pratt on the South by lands of Mrs. Pratt and Archibald Russell and on the west by said factory lot and lands of Cornelius Relyea.  Containing about seventy one acres more or less being the same premises conveyed by James Lewwiller and wife to Joseph Graves in the year 1858 excepting and reserving therein so much of said premises as were heretofore conveyed by said Pell and wife to the Church of the Ascension for a cemetery.

              To have and to hold all and singular the premises above mentioned and described and hereby conveyed unto the said parties of the second part – the survivor or survivors of them and their assigns forever.

           In witness whereof the said party of the first part  -  Referee as aforesaid hath thereunto set his hand and seal the day and year first above written<

Sealed and delivered            }
In presence of                        }                       D. E. Keyser                (seal)
Mc D van Wagener               }                       Referee

State of New York                }
Ulster County                        }
            
            On this 19^th day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy one before me the subscriber personally appeared Daniel C. Keyser to me known to be the same persons described in and who executed the within instrument and acknowledged that he executed the same
            
                                      Mc D Van Wagoner
                                                Notary public in & for Ulster Co

U.S.S.Re  $3.50 stamp

A true record entered October 21, 1871 at 1 h 45 p.m. > 

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