Indenture Paper from 1875
Background
Several years ago I found a lamp at a local garage sale.
A piece of parchment paper had been wrapped around the base of the lamp
and decoupaged in place. Upon closer examination, I realized that the
parchment paper was actually an authentic legal document from 1875,
specifically an Indenture contract. I bought the lamp, took it home, and
soaked it in water. I was successful in detaching the parchment paper from
the cardboard lamp base. Unfortunately, some of the original ink was
removed during both the initial decoupaging and my attempt to detach the
document from the lamp. I also discovered that the right hand portion of
the original document had been cut off in order to make it fit more
snuggly around the cardboard lamp base.
What you are about to read is what
remains of the readable text on the parchment paper. I have transcribed this text
exactly as it is presented on the parchment paper. I used Lucida
Calligraphy font to replicate the document's overall look. Missing, unreadable, or possible alternatives to words
or letters are indicated as follows:
___Underline means a missing or unreadable word or part of a word.
||| Three vertical lines mean this is where the page was
cut off on the far right edge.
text Blue text means this is my "best guess" for a letter or word, but it may be incorrect.
[text] Text inside brackets means possible spellings or alternative
words for text.
Transcription of Original Text-Front Side of Document
This Indenture made the twenty fourth day ____
|||
____ ____ one thousand eight hundred ____ ____ Machart
and Danniwome of Tarehame on the same
|||
___ghten for ____ of us one
Merchant of the second part and Ich_____|||
Whereas by ar__ndonmus ____
the ____ day of chir____ on thousand ____ |||
___re of Craves Mevander Oswald ____ ____ a ____. The Reverend Edmond Hidy
foud |||
one first and Richard Oakley
Millege [com]mercial Nagill Traveller of the
other part. All [or
Au]
|||
in Melcombe Mill
aforesaid voucher ____ is referred [or
transferred]
to in the Schedule to ____ |||
the first ship
of the Intenture now is ___ige under these appointenance
[or apprailenance]
wezes demised unto the said Richard Oakley
Milledge his executo[r] [or execution]
|||
at the years
[or yearly
or
yeatly]
____ ____ I've hounds and ____ ___itings god under and subject to the
covenants and conditions therein contained and on ____ |||
Whereas
the over Richard Oakley show
did on the seventeenth day of November one thousand eight hundred and
sixty six intes___ |||
were
on the twenty fifth day of January one
thousand eight hundred and sixty seven marked ____ Principal Registry of
Her Majesty |||
by an Indenture bearing man
on eighteenth day of September one thousand
eight hundred and sixty seven and expressed to boundage be |||
Arabella [or
Aicibella ]
Domand [or Dowland
]
Antill this her First
name and maiden of ____ . We ____
Milledge ____ of the one part for the consideration ____ |||
Arabella
Dowland Antill ____ ____ ____ on a ramioes
eccigred [or
occupied or
expunged]
to be demanding by the hereinagon recchu
Inden[ture]
|||
her execedous ad___ and ____
____ ____ ____ ____ sixty years of the rent and under the subject to the
|||
Whereas
by an Indenture dated ____ |||
said Nathaniel ____ of this
first part ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ (by ____ thou name and addition of
Anabella Dowland Milledge Spu |||
After writing herein Covenant
thou signer ____ _____ has bore agreed upon and was open
intended shorlay to be solomized ____ |||
pursuanious
of an Uquinent [or
Muinent ]
in that behalf ____ ____
____ for the said then intended [or
issoded or
issued] marry
and in consideration hereof [or
meteof ]
|||
Annie and Richard committed
the ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____ ____fsed so be hereby assigned
|||
and on the Lessee's first part
of the pain ____ Romland [or
Dowland ]
uplift
her ____ admimo___ |||
mist that they the said John Rowland
[or Dowland
] with
and ____ ____ of ____ or the acrifow___
[or exper___
] or
administration of |||
whom hereinafter included in
the designated said Indentures ____ here bring should upon the request of
the said |||
or trusted for ____ home ____
sell the said homestead [or
humans ]
enjoyed
[or enjoined
or
engraved] to
be merely assigned time to ____ in ____ or in parents
and either |||
little or inden___ or [comme]ncement
of the ____ one might likely in and second or
vary any ca___ for sale and resell without |||
and do all over ___ourances
and brings as they or he should shink
pt. amt. it was merely deci[ded]
[that]
at ____ in writing of |||
complex discharge for any
moneys Hajak to her ____ in that capacity and
the person or persons paying the same |||
of the same. LAW
Whereas the ____ ____ said
Nathaniel and Arabella ____ and Romand [or
Dowland ]
Antill was duly soumnize
[or solomized
]
|||
LAW Whereas the said John ____
____ ____ Nicholas [or
Meholas ]
Paris
____ have in person ___nd execution of the trust for |||
eight hundred and seventy his
and as ____ ____ and with the conveyance of the said ____ land until Ueonfied
by |||
John Moorehead for the
absolute sale of the quid [or
quart ]
meqonago of denemend
[or knemend
] Coach
House Stable and premises herein before desc[ribed]
|||
hereinbefore recited Indenture
of Seaso___ and ___land ____ at or for her Merchandise [or
Majesty ]
or
sum seven hundred and fifty pounds |||
consideration of said sum of
Seven Hundred and Fifty pounds of lawful bond money paid by the said John
|||
execution of ____ Presents the
receipt ____ and that [person
]
or used for absolute purchase of the premises unhindered to ____ |||
and of and from the same ____
____ part miesof
____ and ____ them doth acquit release ____ for ever discharge the said
|||
and Nicholas Donnahope
____ ____ ____ presents ____ bargain sell assigns transfer and over onto
the said John Moore[head]
|||
Stable herectilaments
and promises comp___ and ____ by the hereinfore recited ____ ____ of
Lead___ with the ugl___ |||
Moorehead ___engr.
hereof Met all the stand
___ght ____ interest term g is terms for
you now to come and unexpired |||
Coach House Stable and ____
____ ____ afngnat [or
amended ]
so ____ with their appointenance
unto |||
resides ____ ____ ____ to some
____ ____ ___ ___ ___ of Sixty years granted ____ hereinfore, ____
Indenture |||
Antill and Nicholas Downing
____ over ____ ____ ____ hereof subject neverthelef
[or nevertheless
] to
____ payment of pre___ent and the |||
____ John D___ and ____ ____
____ ____ ____ his own acts ____ and defaults only but not fra___ |||
agree with and to the said
John Moorehead his executors and administrators and assigns that may the
said John Domand [or Rowland
or Dowland]
Antill and |||
committed executed or ____
fully or moringly [or
morally ]
suffered or been party or
privy to any act, deed ma___ or thing whatsoever whereby or |||
Transcription of Original Text-Back Side of Document
[Signed
se]aled
[and]
delivered by the within named John Dowland Antill
Signed [sealed
and delivered]
by the within named Anabella Dowland Antill ____ ____ ____ of Mary Annie
I____
51. Western March ____ ____
Signed sealed and delivered by
the within named John Moorehead
W Dowles Garrett
John Wayman
Dated 26th June 1875
Dowland
and Nicholas
CRIU Esq.
to ____
Moorehead Esq.
Disignmient
of Chamber by
Fredirick
Holcombe Registrant