deed listed at    liber 23    pp  403  -  404
Abraham Cantine Sheriff of Ulster County to John J Dumont

To all whom these presents shall come  Greeting   I Abraham Cantine Sheriff of the county of Ulster by virtue of a writ of fieri facias to me directed and delivered tested the thirtieth day of October, one thousand Eight hundred and nineteen and issued out of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New York.  I was commanded to make or come to be made ninety dollars eighty two cents out of the lands and tenements hereinafter more particularly described of and belonging to unknown owners for their share and proportion of the taxable costs in a certain partition first wherein John J Dumond was plaintiff and the owners of said lot hereinafter described to said Dumont unknown, some of the defendants in said partition and by the said writ of Fieri Facias more fully appears

And whereas after the coming to me of the said writ of fieri facias and before the return on day thereof I did by virtue of law writ seize and take the lands hereinafter described and here by virtue of said writ and of the statute in such case made and provided sold at public auction the lands hereinafter described to John J Dumont for the sum of one hundred and eleven dollars as being the highest sum bid for the same.

Now know Ye that I the said Sheriff aforesaid by virtue of said writ of fieri facias and of the statutes in such case made and provided in consideration of the said sum of money aforesaid tome in hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged Have granted bargained and sold and by these presents do grant bargain and sell unto the said John J Dumont and to his heirs and assigns forever

All the right and title of said unknown owners to all and singular that certain lot of land known and distinguished by lot number Eight on a map of lots made by Jacob Triumphour Junior and Benjamin Ostrander two of the commissioners appointed by the Supreme Court to make partition of a certain tract of land known and distinguished by lot number Nine of the Little Rights of the New Paltz patent situate lying and being in the northeasterly part of the town of New Paltz of which the aforesaid lot number Eight is one of the subdivisions made by the aforesaid commissioners of said lot number Nine containing fifty two and a half acres more or less reference to said map and partiti0on will more fully appear with the appurtenances and all the estate, right, title and interest which the said unknown owners had in the said premises and lot of land aforesaid on the fifteenth day of November one thousand Eight hundred and nineteen or at any time since had or now have

To have and to hold the said land and premises and every part thereof with the appurtenances unto the said John J Dumont his heirs and assigns forever as fully and absolute as I the said Sheriff under the authority aforesaid might could or ought to sell and convey the same

In Witness whereof I have hereto set my hand and seal the twenty fourth day of January One thousand Eight hundred and twenty 1820

Sealed & Delivered             }
in presence of                       }    Abraham Cantine       (seal)
Jon D Ostrander                   }

Ulster County SS                  }

On the twenty eighth day of March one thousand eight hundred and twenty personally appeared before me Jonathan D Ostrander Esquire to me well known who being duly sworn deposed that Abraham Cantine to him well known as the grantor within described executed the within Deed in his presence and acknowledged to do so for the purposes within mentioned and that he the said Jonathan signed the same as a subscribing Witness. I allow it to be recorded.
                Henry Tappen
                 Commissioner for Ulster under the
                 act of March 1818

A true record 28th March 1820 at noon
                                       Ch Tappen   Dpy Clerk

This handwritten deed located in the Ulster County Clerk's Vault Room, Kingston, New York was transcribed to this web site on December 29, 2001

fieri facias:  
a writ of execution commanding a sheriff to lay a claim to
                      and seize the goods and chattels of a debtor o fulfill a judgment
                      against him (from Latin "cause it to be done")
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