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Witness my hand and Notarial seal, the day and year afore

said.

(Seal.)

EDWIN F. GLENN,
Notary Public.

ON THE eighteenth day of December, Anno Domini 1884, before me the subscriber a Notary Public for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania residing in the City of Philadelphia personally appeared Robert Patterson, Secretary of the above named The Fidelity Insurance Trust and Safe Deposit Co., who being duly affirmed according to law did depose and say that he was present and saw Stephen A. Caldwell as President of the said Corporation affix the seal of the said corporation to the above Indenture and that the seal set and affixed to the said Indenture is the common or corporate seal of the said "The Fidelity Insurance Trust. and Safe Deposit Co.," and that the said Indenture was duly sealed and delivered by the said President as and for the act and deed of the said corporation, for the purposes therein mentioned, and that the name of this deponent and of the said Stephen A. Caldwell, President aforesaid, subscribed to the said Indenture in attestation of the due execution and delivery thereof by the said "The Fidelity Insurance Trust and Safe Deposit Co.," are of their own proper and respective handwritings. Affirmed and subscribed before me this

eighteenth day of December, Anno Domini 1884.

(Seal.)

R. T. WRIGHT, JR.,
Notary Public.

CITY AND COUNTY OF PHILADELPHIA, SS:

R. PATTERSON, Sec.

AT an ORPHANS' COURT for the City and County aforesaid held at Philadelphia on the twenty-ninth day of November, A. D. 1884, the said The Fidelity Insurance Trust and Safe Deposit Co., Guardian of the estate of Mary Leath Courtney, the above minor, was authorized to sell the said minor's one full equal and undivided fifth part or share of and in the Real Estate in the Above Indenture described to Peter S. Dildine, his heirs, and assigns and the said Guardian was authorized and directed to make, execute and deliver or join with the other owners of said Real Estate in the execution and delivery of all and every deed or deeds or other assurances in the law necessary to vest said minor's undivided fifth part or share in said Real Estate in the

said Peter S. Dildine in fee simple and the said Court ordered and decreed that the said minor's undivided interest in said Real Estate so sold be and remain to the said Peter S. Dildine his heirs and assigns firm and stable forever, and the said guardian was authorized to receive and receipt for the purchase money, security to be entered in the sum of Six thousand four hundred dollars and the bond of said company was approved as such security which security has been duly entered. Witness my hand and the seal of the said Court this 19th day of December, Anno Domini 1884.

(Seal.)

A. J. FORTIN,
Ist. Asst. Clerk.

Recorded in the office for Recording of Deeds in and for City and County of Philadelphia in Deed Book J. O. D., No. 238, Page 528, &c. Witness my hand and seal of office this Twentieth day of December, A. D. 1884.

(Seal.)

JOHN O'DONNEL,
Recorder of Deeds.

236. Sheriff's Deed *(New Form Under Act of April 29, 1905.) Know all Men by these Presents that I, Joseph Gilfillan, Sheriff of the County of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, for and in consideration of the sum of Fifteen Hundred ($1500.00) dollars, to me in hand paid, do hereby grant and convey to Anna S. Lanning, widow, of the City of Philadelphia.

All that certain lot or piece of ground with the messuage or tenement thereon erected situate on the East side of T Street at the distance of One Hundred and forty feet Southward from the South side of S Street in the Fiftieth Ward of the City of Philadelphia, containing in front or breadth on said T Street, Fourteen feet and extending of that width in length or depth Eastward between parallel lines at right angles with said T Street Fifty-seven feet three inches. Bounded Westward by said T Street, Southward by ground now or late of John Joseph Alter, Northward by ground now or late of Thomas Long, and Eastward by a certain four feet wide alley leading Southward into X Street, and connecting with another four feet wide

*This is from the regular printed form, which can be purchased at any legal stationer's. The words in italics are to be filled in by the convey

ancer.

alley leading Westward into said T Street. Being the same premises which Richard Dintel and Maggie his wife, by Indenture bearing date the Ninth day of January 1907 and recorded in the office for the Recording of Deeds in and for the City and County of Philadelphia in Deed Book W. S. V. No. 767, Page 171, &c., granted and conveyed unto the said MARTIN SELLMAN in fee. Together with the free use and privilege of the aforesaid two several four feet wide alleys at all times hereafter forever, AND the same having been sold by me to the said grantee, on the first day of August Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and ten after due advertisement,, according to law, under and by virtue of a writ of LEVARI FACIAS issued on the sixth day of July Anno Domini One Thousand nine hundred and ten, 1910, out of the Court of Common Pleas, No. 1, as of March Term, one thousand nine hundred and ten, (1910) Number 3809, at the suit of ANNA S. LANNING, Assignee of EDWARD H. STANTON, Mortgagee, against MARTIN SELLMAN, Mortgagor and Real Owner.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto affixed my signature, this tenth day of August Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and ten, (1910).

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, ss:

JOSEPH GILFILLAN.

Before the undersigned, Prothonotary of the Common Pleas Court of Phila. personally appeared JOSEPH GILFILLAN Sheriff of Philadelphia County aforesaid, and in due form of law declared that the facts set forth in the foregoing deed are true, and that he acknowledged the same in order that said deed might be recorded.

Witness my hand and seal of said court, this tenth day of August Anno Domini one thousand nine hundred and ten, (1910).

CRAIG BIDDLE,
Prothonotary.

per JAS. W. Fletcher, Dep. Prothy.

237. Deed, Individual, to Trustees of an Unincorporated Church. This Indenture, Made the ninth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eleven, (1911) Be

tween M. G., of the city of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, and S., his wife (hereinafter called the grantors), of the one part and J. D., V. L. and S. K., all of the said City and State, Trustees for St. Michael's Orothodox Church, (hereinafter called the grantees), of the other part, Witnesseth, That the said grantors for and in consideration of the sum of One ($1.00) Dollar, lawful money of the United States of America, unto them well and truly paid by the said grantee at or before the sealing and delivery hereof, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, have granted, bargained and sold, released and confirmed, and by these presents do grant, bargain and sell, release and confirm unto the said grantees their heirs and assigns, All that certain lot or piece of ground with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, described according to a plan and survey thereof made by F. B. Surveyor and Regulator of the Fourth Survey District of the City of Philadelphia, as follows, to wit: BEGINNING at a point on the East side of Sixth Street, (fifty feet wide) at a distance of Two Hundred and nineteen (219') feet one and one-quarter (14") Southward from the Southerly line of Green Street (fifty feet wide) in the Twelfth Ward of the City of Philadelphia. Containing in front or breadth on said Sixth Street Eighteen feet and extending of that width in length or depth Eastward between parallel lines at right angles to said Sixth Street on the North line thereof partly through the center of a two feet six inches wide alley, One Hundred and Nineteen feet, six and three-eighths inches, (119'-6%") to a point, in a line drawn parallel with Randolph Street and at a distance of Seventy-five feet (75') Westward therefrom, and on the South line thereof One hundred and Nineteen feet two and threeeighths inches, (119'-2%") to a point in said line. Being the same premises which C. K., of the City of Philadelphia and C. E. K., his wife, by Indenture bearing date the 17th day of January, A. D. 1908, and recorded in the office for the Recording of Deeds in and for the County of Philadelphia, in Deed Book W. S. V., No. 940, Page 449, &c., granted and conveyed unto the said M. G. in fee. Together with all and singular the buildings, improvements, ways, streets, alleys, passages, waters, water-courses, rights, liberties, privileges, hereditaments and appurtenances, whatsoever unto the hereby granted premises belonging, or in any wise appertaining, and the revisions and remainders, rents, issues

and profits thereof; and all the estate, right, title, interest, property, claim and demand whatsoever of them the said grantors as well at law as in equity, of, in, and to the same. To have and to hold the said lot or piece of ground above described with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, hereditaments and premises hereby granted, or mentioned and intended so to be, with the appurtances, unto the said grantees their heirs and assigns, to and for the only proper use and behoof of the said grantees their heirs and assigns forever. In trust nevertheless for the uses and purposes of ST. MICHAEL'S ORTHODOX CHURCH with power to the said J. D., V. L. and S. K. trustees, to sell and convey in fee simple and to mortgage the whole or any part of the aforesaid premises and appurtenances to any person or persons and for such sum or sums of money as the said congregation of St. Michael's Orthodox Church shall, by a majority vote at a meeting held for the purpose of considering that question, may appoint and direct. And the said M. G. and S., his wife, grantors, for themselves, their heirs, executors and administrators, do covenant, promise and agree, to and with the said grantees, their heirs and assigns, by these presents, that they, the said grantors, their heirs all and singular the hereditaments and premises hereby granted or mentioned and intended so to be, with the appurtenances, unto the said grantees, their heirs and assigns, against them, the said grantors, their heirs and against all and every person and persons whomsoever lawfully claiming or to claim the same or any part thereof, by, from or under him, her, them, or any of them, shall and will WARRANT and forever DEFEND.

In Witness Whereof, The parties of the first part have hereunto set their hands and seals, dated the day and year first above written.

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Received on the day of the date of the above indenture, of the

above-named grantees the sum of $1.00 being the full consideration above mentioned.

M. G.

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