Elizabeth Briggs

Sources

1. Church Records. Ancestry.ca. Website

   accessed 28 December 2020; Walter Stuard and Elizabeth Briggs, marriage banns, 14 February 1774, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York, citing Holland Society of New York; New York, New York; Poughkeepsie and The Flats, Book 39, page 175, image 178

   View record

2. New York City, Compiled Marriage Index, 1600s-1800s. Ancestry.com. Ancestry.ca
3. U.S., Dutch Reformed Church Records in Selected States, 1639-1989. Ancestry.com. Ancestry.ca

   Holland Society of New York; New York, New York; Poughkeepsie and The Flats, Book 39

4. Church Records. Ancestry.ca. Website

   accessed 28 December 2020; marriage 3 March 1774, Walter Stuard and Elizabeth Briggs, Poughkeepsie, Dutchess County, New York, citing Holland Society of New York; New York, New York; Poughkeepsie and The Flats, Book 39, page 162, image 165

   Marr. per Banns or Licence
   1774 March 3, Walter Stuard & Elizabeth Briggs.

   View record

5. Land Deeds. FamilySearch. Website

   accessed 28 December 2020; Walter Stewart to Nathaniel Golding, land sale, 31 January 1799, Saint John Deed book 1797-1799 vol E1, page 160-162, images 168-170, citing County Office of Service, New Brunswick, Canada

   View record

   Walter Stewart to Nathanial Golding No. 886

   Know all men by these presents that I Walter Stewart and Sarah his wife of Sussex Vale in Kings County and Province of New Brunswick, for and in consideration of the sum of three pounds lawful money of the Province of New Brunswick to them paid by Nathaniel Golding inholder of the city of Saint John and Province of New Brunswick the recipe whereof they do hereby acknowledge, Have granted bargained and sold, and by these presents do grant bargain and sell unto the said Nathaniel Golding his heirs and assigns all that a certain lot of land situate lying and being in the city of Saint John and Province aforesaid being known and distinguished in his Majesty grant thereof and in the map thereto annexed by Lot number two hundred and thirty tree granted to the said Walter Stewart and is forty feet front on Guilford street and extends one hundred back, and also all the rights benefits, and advantages thereto belonging or appertaining and the revision and reversions, rents issues and profits of the said premises and of every part and parcel thereof, and all the estate, right title, interest claim and demanded whatsoever of them the said Walter Stewart and Sarah his wife of in and to the said lot of land and premises and everything part thereof. To have and to hold the said lands and premises with the appurtenances to the said Nathaniel Golding his heirs and signs and to his only wife and behoof forever and they do for themselves their heirs executor, and administration, convent with the said Nathaniel Golding his heirs and signs that they are seized of the premises as a good indefeasible estate of inheritance in fee simple, free of and from all manna of encumbrances whatsoever (rents, dues, conditions, reservations, and services due and received to the King only excepted) and that they have a good right full power and lawful authority to grant bargain and sell the same in manner and form above written.
   In witnesses whereof they have hereunto set their hands and seals this thirty first day of January in the year of our lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine and in the thirty ninth year of his Majesty Reign.

   Walter (his X mark) Stewart
   Sarah (her X mark) Stewart

   Signed sealed & delivered in the presence of us:

   The words reed and honour with being first erased
   G. Pitfield and Eliza Pitfield

   Kings County Be it remembered that on the thirty first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine Personally appeared before me G. Pitfield one of his Majesty justices of the Pease for the county aforesaid Walter Stewart grantor of the within interment and acknowledge that he signed sealed and executed the same for the wife and purposes therein mentioned also on the same day the within named Sarah Steward and being examined separately and apart from herSid husband declared she signed sealed and delivered the said deed freely & voluntarily with out any fear threat or compulsion for the sales and purposes therein mentioned.
   G. Pitfield J. Peace