Note: Emma and Nathaniel Light sell their house and lot at 515 E. Main St. to Aaron S. Kreider.
THIS INDENTURE made the eleventh day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-Eight.
BETWEEN Emma Elizabeth Light of North Annville Township, Lebanon County and State of Pennsylvania and her husband Nathaniel Light of the first part and Aaron S. Kreider of the same township, County and State aforesaid, of the second part.
WITNESSETH, That the said part of the first part for and in consideration of the sum of Sixteen Hundred Dollars lawful money of the United States of America well and truly paid by the said party of the second part to the said party of the first part at and before the ensealing and delivery of these presents, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained, sold, aliened, enfeoffed, released, conveyed and confirmed, and by these presents do grant, bargain, sell, alien, enfeoff, release, convey and confirm unto the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns.
ALL THAT CERTAIN tract of land lying and being in the township of North Annville, County of Lebanon and State of Pennsylvania, Bounded and described as follows:
BEGINNING at a post a corner of land of Frederick W. Yake and in line of land of C. P. Steinmetz Estate; thence along land of C. P. Steinmetz Estate South eighty-six (86) degrees east two and thirty-five hundredths (2.35) perches to a stone; thence by same North eighty-two and one-half (82.5) degrees east fifteen and five-tenths (15.5) perches to a stone; thence by land of David L. Saylor South eight (8) degrees east thirty-three (33) perches to a stone; thence by the Berks and Dauphin Turnpike South Seventy-eight (78) degrees West fifteen and sixty-five hundredths (15.65) perches to a stone; thence by land of the said Frederick W. Yake North twelve (12) degrees West thirty-four (34) perches to the place of BEGINNING.
CONTAINING three and one-half (3.5) Acres of land.
IT BEING THE SAME tract of land which H. H. Fahnestock late of the town of Annville and Peter Remper and Mary A. his Wife of West Earl, Lancaster County, State aforesaid, by divers good conveyances and assurances in law duly had and executed, became in their lifetime lawfully seized in their demesne as of fee, and which by their Indenture bearing date the Seventeenth day of October A. D. 1859 granted and confirmed unto Jacob Keller, his heirs and assigns. And the said Jacob Keller being so thereof seized possessed died intestate leaving two children, Elizabeth Mease and Amanda Bomberger, to whom the same did descend and come under the intestate laws of this Commonwealth, and the undivided one-half portion of which the said Elizabeth Mease by her deed in which her husband joined dated the thirty-first day of March A. D. 1870, and recorded in the Recorder's office of Lebanon County in Deed Book W page 231 &c. [I found a different deed in this place] did grant and confirm unto Amanda Bomberger, her heirs and assigns.
AND BEING THE SAME PREMISES of which the said Amanda Bomberger died seized in her demesne as of fee intestate leaving to survive her as her only heirs at law her son Alvin Bomberger, her daughter Emma Elizabeth Light, to whom the same did descend and come under the intestate laws of this Commonwealth. UNDER and SUBJECT to the life estate of her husband Joseph Bomberger as tenant by the curtesy, and
WHEREAS said Alvin Bomberger and Ernestine, his Wife, and the said Joseph Bomberger by their Indenture bearing date the first day of April A. D. 1898, for the consideration therein mentioned, did grant, sell, convey the same unto the said Emma Elizabeth Light (party hereto) her heirs and assigns forever.
TOGETHER with all and singular the buildings, improvements, woods, ways, rights, liberties, privileges, hereditaments and appurtencances to the same belonging, or in anywise appertaining and the reversion and reversions, remainder and remainders, rents, issues and profits thereof, and of every part and parcel thereof. And also, all the estate, right, title, interest, property, possession, claim and demand whatsoever, both in law and equity of the said party of the first part, of, in and to the said premises with the appurtenances.
TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said premises with all and singular the appurtenances unto the said party of the second part, her heirs and assigns, to the only proper use, benefit and behoof of the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns forever.
And the said Emma Elizabeth Light and her husband Nathaniel, their heirs, executors and administrators, do by these presents, covenant, grant and agree to and with the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns forever, that they the said Emma Elizabeth Light and her husband Nathaniel, their heirs all and singular the hereditaments and premises hereinabove described and granted or mentioned and intended so to be, with the appurtenances, unto the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns, against them the said Emma Elizabeth Light and her husband Nathaniel, their heirs and against all and every other person or persons whomsoever, lawfully claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof, Shall and Will Warrant and forever defend.
In Witness Whereof, the said part of the first part to these presents have hereunto set their hands and seals. Dated the day and year first above written.
Signed, Sealed and Delivered in the Presence of
Life estate clause stricken out before signing
Isaac Beaver
Carrie Beaver
C. V. Henry
Signatures of Emma E. Light and Nathaniel Light
RECEIVED the day of the date of the above Indenture of the above named Aaron S. Kreider the sum of Sixteen Hundred dollars in full consideration named.
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, COUNTY OF LEBANON ) SS.
On this day of A. D. 1898, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, personally appeared the above named Emma Elizabeth Light and her husband Nathaniel Light, and in due form of law acknowledged the above Indenture to be their and each of their act and deed and desired the same might be recorded as such. And the said Emma Elizabeth being of full age and separate and apart from her said husband, by me thereon privately examined and the full contents of the above Deed being by me first made known unto her, did, thereupon declare and say that she did voluntarily and of her own free will and accord, sign, seal and as her act and deed deliver the above written Indenture, Deed or Conveyance, withour any coercion or compulsion of her said husband.
WITNESS my hand and official seal the day and year aforesaid.
Recorded January 8th, 1904
H. E. Illig, RECORDER
Deed Book U; Volume 3; Page 605. Lebanon County Recorder of Deeds Office