This Indenture made the twenty seventh day of May in the Year one thousand eight hundred and forth sic

Between Nathan Bruen, one of the Masters in Chancery in and for the State of New York, dwelling in the Town of Newburgh in Orange County of the first part and Tjerck B. Elmont and Vanljsasibeck Elmont of the Town of Esopus in the County of Ulster and State aforesaid of the second part

Whereas at a Court of Chancery held at the Town of Kingston, Ulster County before the Vice Chancellor of the second circuit of the State of New York on the Seventeenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and forth six, it was among other things ordered, adjudged and  decreed by the Said Court  in a certain cause then pending in the said court between Thomas Ellison complaintant against John J Dumont and Elizabeth his wife, Marius Schoonmaker Administrator and Ann Sickles Adminstratrix of Nicholas Sickles, deceased, Henry Sideam<?>  Justin Almet Reed, David R Sudeam and Gilbert Johnson Defendants that all and singular the mortgaged premises mentioned in the bill of complaint in said cause and in said Decree described, or So much thereof as might be Sufficient to raise the amount due to the complainant for principal Interest  and Cost in Said Course, and which might be sold, separately without material Inquiry to the parties interested, be sold at public auction, according to the course and practice of Said Court and that some of the parties in said cause might become a purchaser or purchasers on Such sales

That the said Master execute to the purchaser or purchasers of the said mortgaged premises or Such part of parts thereof  as should b so Sold agreed and Sufficient Deed or deeds of conveyance for the Same

And Whereas a certificate of the enrolment of Said party of the first part of Said decree Signed by the Clerk of the Second Circuit of Said Court, has been presented to Said party of the first part

And whereas the said Master in Chancery in pursuance of the order and decree of the Said Court, did on the Seventh day of May, one thousand eight hundred and forth six Sell at public Auction at the Court house in Kingston in said county of Ulster, the premises in the Said order mentioned, due nature of the time and place of such sale being first given, agreeable to the said order, at which Sale the premises hereinafter described were struck off the other Said parties of the Second part for the Sum of four thousand five hundred and Seven Dollars, that being the highest sum bidden for the same

Now this Indenture Witnesseth that the said Master in Chancery, the party of the first part, to those presents, in order to carry into effect the sale so much by him as aforesaid in pursuance of the order and decree of the Said Court and in conformity to the Statue in Such case made and provided, and also in consideration of the premises and of the Said Sum of money so bidden as aforesaid, being first duly paid by the Said parties of the Second part the receipt  whereof is hereby acknowledged, Hath bargained and sole and by these presents dot h grant and convey unto the Said parties of the Second part

All those two parcels of land, Situate lying and being in the town of New Paltz, now Esopus, in the county of Ulster, and within the Great lot commonly called lot number Nine of the River division, the one tract or parcel being the one on which the said John J Dumont and Elizabeth his wife, formerly lived and is bounded easterly by Hudsons River, Southerly by the farm and lands of Captain William M Johnson, commonly called the Jew Farm, westerly by the same farm of the said Johnson, and northerly by the lands late of R. L. Pell Esquire together with the house, barn buildings, Dock and Water privileges

And the other Tract or parcel of land being situated westwardly or northwesterly of the above described Farm and in the said lot number nine and is bounded as follows, to wit  Northwardly by the West bounds of the Said Great lot Number Nine, southwardly by the division of that part of Said lot nine called the Sittle Right allotted to John Beaver, John Price, William Simmons and to Richard and John Hilde in the partition thereof formerly made and Eastwardly by the land sold and conveyed by the said John J Dumont heretofore to Cornelius Relyea both the premises above described containing together one hundred and fifty acres, be the same more or less.

To have and to hold all and Singular the premises above mentioned and described and hereby conveyed or intended so to be, unto the said parties of the Second part their heirs and assigns to their only proper use benefit and behoof forever

In witness whereof the Said Nathan Reeve, a Master in Chancery as aforesaid hath hereunto set his hand and seal, the day and year first above written.

Sealed and delivered                     }
in presence of                                  }
The words Twenty seventh             }
on first line first page written           }     Nathan Reeve  (seal)
on erasures and the word               }
"West" on second line, 2nd page   }
interlined before signing                   }
C. F. Belknap                                     }

State of New York     }
Orange County          }    ss;

 On the twenty Seventh day of May one thousand eight hundred and fifty Six, before me came Nathan Reeve, known to me to be the individual described in, and who executed the above conveyance, and acknowledged that he executed the same.
                  C. F. Belknap, Justice of the peace
                   in and for Orange County

State of New York      }
Orange County           }  ss;

 I, John C Williams, Clerk of the County of Orange, do hereby certify that C. F. Belknap, Esq whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed deed therein written was at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgement a Justice of the peace in and for the County aforesaid dwelling in the said county, commissioned and sworn and duly authorized to take the same, and further that I am well acquainted with the handwriting of the said C. F. Belknap and verily believe that the Signature to the said certificate of proof acknowledgment is genuine.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set me hand and affixed the seal of the said County, the 29th day of May 1846.
                       J. C. Williams,   Clerk

A true record entered the thirtieth day of May 1846 at 5 oclock P M
                                        Rich T Keaton,  Dep Clerk