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Annotated transcript :
[Title:]
No 86876 To the Reg’r 1 [Register or Registrar] appointed for Registring [Registering] of Deeds Conveyances Wills and so forth
[Notes in margin:]
Ferguson to Ferguson
Reg’rd the 10’th day of Nov’r 1747 at 12 oClock at Noon
[Body of memorial:]
A Memorial of a Deed Indented ^bearing^ 2 date the fifth day of Oct’r One thous’d seven hund’d & forty seven made Between And’w Ferguson of Tarater [Farriter] 3 in the Bar [Barony] of Dungannon & C’o of Tyrone Gent of the one part & John Ferguson of the s’d town Bar & C’o Gent of the other p’t [part]
… Whereby it is first recited a Deed duly Executed by Tho’s White of Redhills in the C’o of Cavan Esq’r to John Nesbitt of Tullyvar in the [parish of Carnteel and] C’o of Tyrone afores’d Gent thereby Demising to him the s’d Nesbitt the said Townland of Taratar for & During the nat’l [natural] lives of And’w Nesbitt John Nesbitt Jun’r & John Irwine Jun’r w’th a Clause of Renewall on the failure of each life & So to Continue for Ever,
… & Secondly reciting a Deed of Assignm’t of the said Deed of Demise duly Executed by the s’d John Nesbitt to the said Andrew Ferguson for the Consid’n [Consideration] of Forty two Pounds Ster [Sterling] bearing date y’e Thirtyeth day of Sept’r One thousand and seven hundred & twenty nine
… And Whereby and by virtue of the deed first above ment’d [mentioned] Whereof this present writ’g is a Mem’l [Memorial] the said And’w Ferguson for & in Consid’n of his paternal affection to his Son the s’d John Ferguson, & the Sum of Five Shill’s [Shillings] Ster to him in hand p’d [paid] by the s’d John Ferguson doth Grant Convey Transfer Assign & make over All his R’t [Right] title Int’t [Interest] Claim & Dem’d [Demand] w’tsoever [whatsoever] of in & to that p’t [part] of the s’d Townland of Taratar Computed to be a Moiety [half] thereof & as the same is Meared & bounded & in as full & ample manner as possed [possessed] by s’d Andrew Ferguson unto him the s’d John Ferguson his heirs & Ass’s [Assigns] for Ever w’thout Claim Challenge or Dem’d of the s’d And’w Ferguson his heirs or Ass’s
… ^To have and^ To hold the s’d Granted Premes [Premises] & Appurs [Appurtenances ] from the first day of May last During the Continuance of the s’d Lease & every renewall thereof unto the s’d John Ferguson his heirs & Ass’s Subject to the yearly Rent of Six Pounds Ster w’th a Provisoe [Condition] therein that During the nat’l life of the s’d And’w Ferguson the s’d John Ferguson his heirs & Assigns shall pay yearly on the first day of Nov’r & first day of May four Pounds Ster by Equal Moieties unto the s’d And’w Ferguson or his Order over & above the s’d Annual Rent w’th a Power to Distrain [Seize] the Premes in Case of Non Paym’t as by the s’d Indented Deed, Relation being thereunto had may more at large appear,
… the Due Execution whereof by the s’d And’w Ferguson & John Ferguson is Witnessed by James Foresythes of Aghnacloy Gent And’w Carmichael & Sarah Carmichael both of Dungannon & all in the s’d C’o of Tyrone & by Hugh Carmichael of the City of Dublin Gent & the Signing & Sealing of this Mem’l by the s’d John Ferguson is also Witnessed by the s’d And’w Carmichael & Ja’s Forsythes [sic]
__ John Ferguson?(seal) __
… Signed Sealed in the Psence [Presence] of
__ James Forsythes __ And’w Carmichaell,
… The above named James Forsythes came this day before me & made Oath y’t [that] he saw the s’d And’w Ferguson & John Ferguson duly Execute the said Deed, whereof the above writ’g is a Mem’l in the Psence [Presence] of the Dep’t [Deponent] & that he likewise Saw the s’d John Ferguson duly Sign & Seal the above written Mem’l & that the name James Forsythes Subscr’d [Subscribed] as a Witness to the s’d Deed & to the above written Mem’l is this Dep’ts [Deponent’s] proper hand writing
__ James Forsythes __
… Sworn before me at Dungannon in the C’o of Tyrone one of the Com’rs [Commissioners] for taking Affid’ts [Affidavits] in the s’d C’o this 4’th day of Nov’r 1747
__ And’ Carmichaell [Commissioner] __
Rob: Blackall –– Ri Vincent ––
[Justices of the peace for the County of Tyrone]
Source: Registry of Deeds, Ireland. Memorial no. 86876 (v.129, p.230): Andrew Ferguson of Farriter assignment to his son, John Ferguson (dated 5th Oct. 1747, registered 10th Nov. 1747). Microfilm copy held by the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, archival ref. FHL microfilm no. 522833 (accessed at SLC on 4th May 2016); digital images online at FamilySearch, Int’l. familysearch.org. Annotated transcript by Alison Kilpatrick; index and transcript submitted to Nick Reddan’s Registry of Deeds Index Project Ireland 
irishdeedsindex.net, 12th Aug. 2016.
See also :
- Ferguson of Irish Farriter (index page)
Transcriber’s notes :
- An apostrophe indicates that the letter or letters following were raised, or written in superscript, in the original text. ↩︎
- A word or words appearing within caret marks as in, ^text^, denotes text that was inserted above a line, with a caret mark underneath, in the original text. ↩︎
- In Memorial no. 75752, dated 2nd Oct. 1736, Andrew Ferguson was described as occupying that half townland in Farriter called Irish Farriter. ↩︎
End notes :
Source citation for this page: Kilpatrick, Alison. Registry of Deeds, Ireland. Memorial no. 86876 (v.129, p.230): an assignment executed by Andrew Ferguson of Farriter, parish of Killeeshil, county Tyrone, to his son, John Ferguson (dated 5th Oct. 1747, registered 10th Nov. 1747). Annotated transcript by Alison Kilpatrick, published to Arborealis, online at arborealis.ca/records/irish-deeds/surname-index/ferguson/memorial-86876/, accessed [insert date].
All rights reserved. Alison Kilpatrick ©2016.
Published 10th Aug. 2016, edited 14th Jan. 2024.