Conveyance, Susan Rennie to Joseph Pope, 7 June 1877


Note: This Document Courtesy of Michael Rennie, [email protected] - It is a transcript of the sale of Susan Rennie's 1/3 of David Stuart Rennie's estate (1/3 of slightly over 10,000 acres remaining). This land is from the most southern portion of Lot 23. This land is at the opposite end of the lot from the Robert Rennie Conveyance and Renters Roll Michael previously submitted (for the sale of land to Hodgson). Michael would like to thank Gary Carroll and William Glen CG(C), who checked this document.

PEI R.G. 16 Land Conveyance Liber 23 Folio 935-940 Queens Conveyance #6

"No 503
Dated 4th June 1877
Susan Rennie
To
Joseph Pope The Comr.
of Public lands
Conveyance
Registered 7th June 1877 at 10 Oclock A.M.
on Oath of John Doyle
Benj. DeBrisay
Registrar

Know all men by these presents that I Susan Rennie of High Gate House Hawkhurst Kent England Widow of and devisee named in the last Will and Testament of David Stewart Rennie Esquire late of Newfoundland and deceased in pursuance of a contract and agreement made by me with Joseph Pope the Commissioner of Public lands in Prince Edward Island under the authority of an Act passed in the sixteenth year of the Reign of Her present Majesty Queen Victoria entitled An Act for the purchase of lands on behalf of the Government of Prince Edward Island and to regulate the sale and management thereof and for other purposes therein mentioned and of an

Act passed in the thirty ninth year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria entitled An Act to facilitate the purchase of estates of Proprietors under the land Purchase Act 1875 and in consideration of the sum of eleven thousand dollars, $11,000, paid to me by GeorgeWashe DeBlois Treasurer of the said Island on behalf of the Government thereof the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge, the said sum of eleven thousand dollars being the sum awarded by the Commissioner Appointed under the provisions of the Land Purchase Act 1875 as the compensation or price to which I the said Susan Rennie was entitled for my estate and lands herein after described Do by these presents grant bargain and sell unto the said Joseph Pope the Commissioner of Public Lands as aforesaid All those several pieces parcels or tracts of land marked and distinguished by being colored pink on the Dark<<?>> plan thereof hereunto annexed and which said several tracts pieces or parcels of land are bounded and described as follows that is to say commencing at the South West angle of lot or Township Number Twenty three 23, in said Island thence according to the Magnetic North of the year 1764. North along the division between lots or Townships Number Twenty Two and Twenty three (22+23) for the distance of two hundred and eighty one 281 chains and thirty 30 links to the division line of land in the occupation of Edward Way and William Silliphant thence East along the same forty five chains 45 chains to the Rennie Road thence along said road South for the distance of thirty one 31 chains and twenty 20 links thence East forty two chains thence South twenty two chains and seventy five links thence Southeast fourteen chains thence North thirty two chains and fifty links (32.50) thence East five chains and fifty links (5.50) thence South thirty eight 38 chains thence South West fifty two chains to the Malpeque Road thence following the course thereof Southeastwardly nine 9 chains thence Northeast fifty 50 chains thence Southeast eleven 11 chains thence Northeast two chains and fifty links thence Southeast sixtyone 61 chains thence South ten degrees East twenty five 25 chains thence South thirty three degrees East twenty one 21 chains or until it meets the road leading from the Malpeque Road to Bungay thence North sixty eight 68 chains to the division line of land under Lease to John Way and Samuel Cann thence along the same North fifty North fifty nine degrees East thirty one chains and fifty links to the division line between the said Lot or Township Number Twenty three 23 and lot or Township Number Twenty four 24, thence along the said division line South one hundred and nine 109 chains thence South East twenty six chains andfifty links (26.50) thence South West fifty one chains along Thomas Drummonds South east boundary to the Malpeque road thence along the road Southeastwardly eleven chains and sixty links 11.60 thence South fifty five degrees West forty nine 49 chains to the Southern boundary of said lot or Township Number Twenty three on which boundary there is a road called Stuart road thence following the course of the same West for the distance of ninety six 96 chains to the Southeast angle of John McInnis freehold thence continuing the same Southwestwardly fifteen 15 chains and also Northwestwardly twenty six 26 chains or until the said road intersects the said Southern division line of Lot or Township Number Twenty three 23 aforesaid thence along the same West twenty 20 chains to a squared stone at the place of Commencement the said described tract of Land embracing the following list of tenantry that is to say Duncan Nicholson forty four acres David McLean forty eight acres Donald Campbell sixty and one half acres Murdock McPherson one hundred and one acres Malcolm McKinnion fifty five acres Lauchlan McLeod thirty eight acres Archibald McPherson fifty nine and one half acres and fifty one acres Donald McPherson Neil, sixty acres Norman Campbell one hundred and eleven acres Robert Carr fiftyone acres John F Carr thirty three

nine <<three probably crossed out >>

acres Donald McLeod twenty ^ three acres John Meikle fifty acres John Welsh sixty two acres Isaac Oxenham fifty acres John McGilverey sixty-Nine and one half acres Jabey Newberry seventy acres Mrs. Mc Lauchlin sixty acres Robert Carr Seventy acres Angus Beaton fifty two and one quarter acres Lauchlan McLeod fifty acres Widow McKinnon fifty one and three quarter acres William Harris fifty one acres and fifty acres Emanuel Jewel seventy five and three quarter acres Hugh McKinnon one hundred acres Emanuel Jewel junior one hundred acres William McKinnon Seventy five acres Samuel Silliphant fifty acres Malcolm McKinnon twenty six acres William Bernard twenty five acres Ewen McKinnon forty and one quarter acres Nicholas McKinnon fifty three acres Richard Goss one hundred and seven acres James Devine five and one half acres Kenneth McDonald fifty acres John Meikle fifty three acres Peter Meikle fifty acres Colin McKinnon sixty and one half acres Thomas Drummond one hundred acres William Brimacomb ninety acres Archibald McPherson fifty acres William Bernard fifty one and one half acres John Winnacott seventy Nine acres John Rattenbury sixty and three acres and Benjamin Rattenbury fifty acres Christopher Proudfoot one hundred acres John Martin fifty five acres Ewen McKinnon fifty two acres William Silliphant forty acres David Silliphant thirty one acres William Arbing seventy three and one half acres Murdock McKinnon one hundred and seven acres Samuel Silliphant one hundred and thirteen acres James Patterson one hundred and thirteen acres John White one hundred and thirteen acres John White forty five acres and William Silliphant forty five acres and also the following list of freeholds embraced in the above description that is to say William Meikle sixty acres John McInnis one hundred and two acres John Darke thirty seven acres William Harris twenty six acres Archibald McPherson one hundred acres John F. Carr sixty five acres Hugh Oxenham sixty five acres Donald Wares one hundred acres Murdock McKinnon one hundred and seven acres as by the said plan hereto annexed reference being thereto had will more fully appear disclaim<<??>> of the said Freehold farms an area of three thousand four hundred and twenty five B.D. acres of land be the same more or less together with all rents and arrears of rent due or payable to one the said Susan Rennie for the said land or any of them and all woods underwoods ways waters water courses houses and houses yards buildings stables gardens fences profits commodities privileges easements and advantages whatsoever to the said land hereditaments and premises<<??>> belonging or in any wise appertaining or therewith usually held and occupied possessed enjoyed reputed taken or Known as part parcel or member thereof or of any part thereof And the reversion and reversions remainder and remainders rents issues and profits there and of every part thereof And all the estate right title interest trust property claim and demand whatsoever lnh<<???>> at law, and in equity of me the said Susan Rennie of in to and of the said lands hereditaments and premises or any part thereof To have and To hold the said lands hereditaments and premises hereby granted and released or intended so to be with their and every of their rights members and appurtenances unto the said Joseph Pope is such The Commissioner of Public Lands and his successors in office In trust for such purposes and subject to such forms<<??>> provisions regulations and authorities in every respect and to be managed and disposed of in such modes as are set forth disclosed and contained in the said recited Act of the 16th Victoria Cap 18 entitled An Act for the purchase of Lands on behalf of the Government of Prince Edward Island and to regulate the sale and management thereof and for in her purposes therein mentioned of and concerning lands purchased thereunder by and conveyed to The Commissioner of Paths Lands therein mentioned Subject Nevertheless to all taxes assessments and when for the trustees<<?>> now imposed or hereafter to be imposed on the said premises mentioned to be hereby granted or any part or parcel thereof and subject further to all Leases or requirements for leases granted by one & the said Susan Rennie or those through whom I claim title And I the said Susan Rennie for myself my heirs executors and administrators do hereby covenant promise and agree to and with the said Joseph Pope The Commissioner of Public Lands as aforesaid his successors in office and assigns by these presents in manner following that is to say that I the said Susan Rennie not withstanding any act deed matter or thing made committed or executed by me the said Susan Rennie and at the time of the sealing and delivery of these presents lawfully rightfully and absolutely seized of and in or well and sufficiently entitled unto the said lands hereditaments and premises hereby granted and released or intended so to be with the appurtenances to the same belonging of or for a good sure perfect lawful absolute and indefeasible estate of inheritance in fee simple without any manner of condition use trust power of revocation limitation of use or uses or any or her restraint sense matter or thing whatsoever to allow change changes abridge defeat encumber revoke or make and the same save and except all leases or agreements for Leases granted for any plot thereof by one or those through whom I claim title And that I the said Susan Rennie now here in my self good right full power and lawful and absolute authority to grant release and convey all and singular the said lands hereditaments and premises with the appurtenances to the use of the said Joseph Pope The Commissioner of Public lands his successors in office and assigns in manner aforesaid according to the true intent and meaning of these presents And also that the said hereditaments and premises hereby granted and released or intended so to be and every of them and every part thereof with the appurtenances to the same belonging shall and lawfully may from time to time and at all times hereafter remain continue and be to the use of the said Joseph Pope The Commissioner of Public Lands and his successors in office and assigns and shall and may accordingly to peacably and quietly held and enjoyed by the said Joseph Pope The Commissioner of Public Lands his successors in office and assigns without any lawful let suit trouble molestation or interruption whatsoever of form or by one the said Susan Rennie my heirs or assigns in my or her person or persons whomsoever lawfully or equitably claiming or to claim by from under or in trust for one or them And that freely clearly and absolutely saved defended kept harmless and indemnified by one the said Susan Rennie my heirs executors or administrators of from and against all former and other estates rights titlesliens charges and incumbrances whatsoever made done committed executed or suffered by me the said Susan Rennie or any person or persons whomsoever lawfully or equitably claiming or to claim by from or under or in trust for one or by or through my wilful means or default consent firmly or provisement<<???>> And further that I the said Susan Rennie my heirs and all and every person or persons whomsoever having or lawfully claiming or who shall or may have or lawfully claim any estate right title trust or in trust whatsoever at Law or in equity of in to or out of the said lands hereditaments and premises hereby granted and released or intended so to be or any of them or any part thereof by from or under or in trust for me shall and will from time to time and at all times hereinafter upon the request and as the case<<????>> and charges of the said Joseph Pope The Commissioner of Public lands or his successors in office and assigns make do perform acknowledge and execute or cause and presence<<?>> to be made done or performed acknowledged suffered and executed all and every such further and other lawful and reasonable act and acts thing and things devises conveyances and assurances in the law whatever for the further better more perfect and absolute settling conveying and assigning and assuming of all and singular the said lands hereditaments and premises hereby granted and released with their appurtenances to the use of the said Joseph Pope as such The Commissioner of Public Lands as aforesaid and his successor or successors in office and assigns as by the said Joseph Pope The Commissioner of Public Lands his successors in office and assigns or his or their or any of their Council learned in the law, shall be reasonably devised advised or required In Witness

Whereof I the said Susan Rennie by John Bell my Attorney for that purpose duly and legally authorized have hereunto my hand and seal subscribed and set this fourth day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Seventy seven signed sealed and

delivered by the said Susan Rennie by
John Bell her Attorney for that purpose
duly and legally authorized in the presence
of A B Warburton John Doyle
Jn.m<<?>>

{ Susan Rennie (L.S.)
{ by John Bell
{ her Attorney
{
{

Received on the day of the date of the within written Deed Roll of and from George Wastie DeBlois Treasurer of Prince Edward Island within - named the sum of eleven thousand dollars of lawful money of the said Island being the full consideration money therein mentioned to be paid by him to me

Witness A B Warburton
John Doyle }

Susan Rennie by
John Bell her Attorney"


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