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Preamble :
- The following is an annotated transcript of a Memorial of an Irish deed. The original text contains abbreviations, old legal terms, obsolete spellings, editorial markings, and so on.
- The transcriber has reproduced the original text faithfully and also provided notes, or annotations, to assist the reader. Annotations are presented as hyperlinks to footnotes at the bottom of the page, remarks and variant spellings [within square brackets], or links to definitions of legal terms.
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, to definitions in our page, Legal terms used in deeds and other proceedings, on Arborealis. - Whereas the original text ran from start to finish in one paragraph, this transcript provides paragraph breaks between the various sections. for example, the title, notes in margin, body of text, sworn statements, and signatures. Paragraph breaks also serve to parse the various parts of the transaction.
Annotated transcript :
[Title:]
No 212796 1 To the Register App’d 2 [appointed] by Act of Parliam’t for registring [sic] Deeds Wills and so forth
[Notes in margin:]
Ferguson to Nixon
Reg [registered] the 12’th day of July 1777 at 11 oClock in the fore Noon
[Body of memorial:]
A Mem’l of an Indented Deed bearing Date the Second day of May one thousand seven hundred and seventy five and Made Between Jn’o 3 Ferguson Eldest Son and Heir of David Ferguson Late of Faratar [Farriter] in the [parish of Killeeshil,] County of Tyrone by Margaret Ferguson otherwise Huggins his wife of the one part and the Rev’d William Nixon of the City of Dublin Batchellor [sic] 4 of Arts of the other part
… whereby Reciting as therein is Recited the sai’d Jn’o Ferguson for the Consid’n [Consideration] therein Ment’d [mentioned] 5 Did Grant Bargain Sell Assign Alien Release and Confirm 6 unto the Said W’m Nixon the one half of the Said Jn’o Ferguson[‘]s Moiety of the S’d lands of Faratar Cont’g [Containing] Sixty Six Acres two Roods or thereabouts 7 Situate lying and Being in the Parish of Killishill [Killeeshil] Barony of Dungannon and County of Tyrone
… To hold to the S’d W’m Nixon his heirs and assigns 8 forever, Subject to the paym’t of the yearly Rent of three pounds
… which Said Deed is witnessed by Arthur Dunn, Gent. and Thomas Windell of the Said City Cutler 9 and this Mem’l is witnessed by the S’d Arthur Dunn and Cha’s M’c Nallow of the S’d City Gent’n.
__ W’m Nixon (Seal) __ [signature & seal]
… Signed Sealed & Delievered in presence of
Arthur Dunn Ch’as M’c Nallow [signatures]
… The above named Arthur Dunn maketh oath that he saw the Deed of which the above writing is a mem’l Duly Executed by the Party’s [sic] thereto and also saw the above Named W’m Nixon Execute the S’d Mem’l & Dep’t [Deponent] is a subscribing witness to the S’d Deed and Mem’l & Delivered the Same to M’r Jn’o Macabe Dep’y Reg’r [Deputy Register] the 12th Day of July 1777 at or near Eleven oClock in the forenoon
Arthur Dunn [signature]
… Sworn before me this 12th Day of July 177[7]
Jn’o Macabe, Deputy Reg’r. __ [signature]
Source: Registry of Deeds, Ireland. Memorial no. 212796 (v.325, p.49): John Ferguson [the younger] of Farriter, parish of Killeeshil, county Tyrone, son of David Ferguson & Margaret Huggins, assignment to the Rev. William Nixon of Dublin (dated 2nd May 1775, registered 12th July 1777). Microfilm copy held by the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, archival ref. FHL microfilm no. 531696; digital images online at FamilySearch, Int’l. familysearch.org (accessed 15th Jan. 2024). Annotated transcript by Alison Kilpatrick, 16th Jan. 2024.
See also :
- Ferguson of Irish Farriter (family history index page)
- Ferguson : Index of Irish Memorials
- Rev. William Nixon, B.A. (pending)
Transcriber’s notes :
- This memorial was registered on same date as that registered by John Ferguson the younger’s uncle and namesake, John Ferguson (the elder), who executed Memorial no. 212795 , a similar deed of assignment to the Rev. William Nixon. ↩︎
- An apostrophe indicates that the letters following were written in superscript in the original text. The affected words were contractions or abbreviations. ↩︎
- J’no is an abbreviation for the forename, John. ↩︎
- [sic], Latin, “thus” or “just as.” The conventional use implies sic erat scriptum, “thus it was written.” [sic] is an editing device used to communicate to the reader that the transcriber has duplicated the text meticulously as it was written, even if there appears to be an error in spelling, punctuation, syntax, grammar, fact, logic, &c. Source: Wikipedia. “Sic.” enwikipedia.org/wiki/Sic. ↩︎
- The phrase, “for the consideration therein mentioned,” obscures the amount of money or other form of compensation exchanged. See the blog article, for the considerations therein mentioned
, for details of information required to be included in a memorial of an Irish deed; posted to Arborealis, 18th Aug. 2016. ↩︎ - Though the language, “grant, bargains, sell”, &c., suggests the sale of land, the right, title, and interest to the leasehold itself was the object of the sale. Under the 17th – 19th century system of land tenure in Ireland, a tenant did not possess the freehold or ownership in fee to the land he occupied, and he could not sell that land. Therefore, this transaction is more properly characterized as a conveyance or assignment of the leasehold. ↩︎
- It is not stated whether the acreage was stated in English statute, Irish (alias Plantation), or Scots (alias Cunningham) measure. However, the mention of roods suggests English statute measure . ↩︎
- Assign: the act of transferring or assigning rights, property, or other goods or privileges. ↩︎
- Cutler: a person who makes or sells cutlery. Source: “Collins English Dictionary” collinsdictionary.com. ↩︎
End notes :
Source citation for this page: Kilpatrick, Alison. Registry of Deeds, Ireland. Memorial no. 212796 (v.325, p.49): an assignment executed by John Ferguson [the younger] of Farriter, parish of Killeeshil, county Tyrone, son of David Ferguson & Margaret Huggins, to the Rev. William Nixon of Dublin (dated 2nd May 1775, registered 12th July 1777). Annotated transcript by Alison Kilpatrick, published to Arborealis, 17th Jan. 2024; online at arborealis.ca/records/irish-deeds/surname-index/ferguson/memorial-212796/, accessed [insert date].
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Published 17th Jan. 2024.