http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nj/capemay/land/mortgages.txt
Abstracts of a journal written by Aaron Leaming, Jr., who transcribed
early 18th century mortgages for Cape May County, NJ
Transcribed/abstracted by Joan Berkey, <joan123b(a)aol.com>
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Aaron Leaming Book of Surveys, Liber C, begun August 1765 [from the original
manuscript at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, call # (Phi) Am .842]
Transcribed/abstracted by Joan Berkey, <joan123b(a)aol.com>
[transcriber’s note: This bound volume is found at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
in Philadelphia. The mortgages contained within it were transcribed from the originals
by Aaron Leaming, Jr. (1715-1780). Since many of the colonial deeds were not recorded,
the legal descriptions and genealogical information contained within them are invaluable.
Please note that “L” stands for the English currency of “pound,” “S” stands for
shillings,
and my abbreviation of “WNJS” stands for the West New Jersey Society who owned the
land beginning in the 1690s. My comments are placed within brackets]
June 20th, 1765 the General Assembly of New Jersey passed a law for removing the
books out of the hands of the respective Commissioners of the Loan Office in the several
counties of this province into the hands of the Clerks of the Peace of the said counties
and
as I [Aaron Leaming, Jr.] happened to be one of the Loan Officers for Cape May (Henry
Young, Esq. being the other) I thought proper to take the following extracts from the said
books before they passed out of my hands
31. p. 18: Jacob Spicer, Esq.; 200 acres, the neck & 141 acres Oyster Point; 1733;
57L; all that tract of land he purchased of Caleb Carman containing 200 acres of
land and marsh bounded northwardly upon the said Carman’s land and George
Crafford’s land and westerly upon a creek that runs from John Paige’s land and
southerly upon a creek that fronts John Hand’s land, and easterly upon some
marsh belonging to the proprietors in England; his deed for the same dated 1710,
Liber B, p. 101. Also 141 acres he bought of Benjamin and William Carman
known as Oyster Point in Cold Spring neck, by deed ; also the beach called Two
Mile Beach
36. p. 20: Jacob Spicer, 54 acres; 15L; beg. at a white oak near land of Caleb Carman
and on the west side of his head line and running from thence southwest by south
90p; thence northwest by west 102 P; then northeast by north, 90P, then southeast
by east 102 perches to beginning
p. 74:
Jacob Spicer, homestead of 54 acres, 5-12-1744 (see p. 49, this description:
beginning at a white oak near the land of Caleb Carman and on the west side of ye
head line and running from thence southwest by south ninety perches, then
southeast by east from thence northwest by west 102 perches, then northeast by
north 90 perches, then southeast by east 102 perches, to the beginning, containing
54 acres)