Thomas McDevitt to Basil Allbaugh

& Samuel Laughridge

Land Records, Harrison OH
Book X, Pg 192, F# 894202
Thomas McDevitt to Allbaugh & Laughridge

DEED            Thomas McDevitt & wife to Allbaugh & Laughridge

Know all men by these presents that we Thomas McDevitt and Sarah Ann McDevitt of the County of Harrison and State of Ohio In consideration of the sum of Thirty two hundred Dollars to us paid by Basil Albaugh and Samuel Laughridge of the County and State aforesaid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, do hereby grant bargain and convey to the said Basil Albaugh and Samuel Laughridge their heirs and assigns forever the following Real Estate situated in the County of Harrison in the State of Ohio and in the Steubenville Land District and bounded and described as follows to wit: The same being the west half of the North west quarter of Section No 11, Township Twelve (12) of Range 6 and containing Seventy nine acres and seventy one hundredths of an acre.
                To have and to hold said premises with all the privilege and appurtenances thereunto belonging to the said Basil Albaugh and Samuel Laughridge their heirs and assigns forever.  And the said Thomas McDevitt and Sarah Ann McDevitt his wife for themselves and their heirs do hereby covenant with the said Basil Albaugh and Samuel Laughridge their heirs and assigns that they are lawfully seized of the premises aforesaid, that the said premises are free and clear of all incumbrances whatsoever and that they will forever warrant and defend the same with the appurtenances unto the said Basil Albaugh and Samuel Laughridge their heirs and assigns against the claims of all persons whomsoever.
                In witness whereof the said Thomas McDevitt and Sarah Ann McDevitt his wife who hereby released all the right of Dower in the premise has hereunto set their hands and seals this 1^st day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy one~
Signed sealed and acknowledged in presence of   }                         Thomas R. McDevitt     (seal)
M.J. Foster,   James Ramsey                              }                         Sarah Ann McDevitt     (seal)

State of Ohio, Harrison County SS.
Be it remembered that on this 1^st day of November A.D. 1871 Before me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County personally came the above named Thomas McDevitt and Sarah Ann McDevitt with the grantors in the foregoing Deed and acknowledged the signing and sealing of the same to be their voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes therein mentioned.  And the said Sarah Ann McDevitt wife of the said Thomas McDevitt being at the same time examined by me separate and apart from her said husband and the contents of said Instrument being by me made known and explained to her, she then declared that she did voluntarily sign, seal and acknowledge the same, said that she is still satisfied therewith as her voluntary act and deed for the uses and purposes herein mentioned.
                In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name on the day and year last aforesaid.
                                                                                            Alexander Scott, Justice of the Peace
I hereby certify that the Deed of which the foregoing is a copy had adhesive stamps attached to the value of
Three Dollars & fifty cents which were duly cancelled according to law.  I further certify that said Deed was entered for Record Feb 15^th 1872 and Recorded March 4 1872.
                                                                                            George Woodbourne, Recorder

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