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NEW JERSEY LAND INDENTURE BETWEEN JACOB ARNOLD AND JAMES BOARD JR. FOR LAND IN BERGEN COUNTY NEW JERSEY 1797
1797WRCAM54828New Jersey 1797. Partially-printed form 16 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches with scalloped top completed in manuscript. Paper seal attached. Old folds with separation at some folds text only slightly affected. Good. This indenture documents a sale made by Jacob Arnold of Morris County New Jersey to James Board Jr. of Bergen County New Jersey of "thirty-one acres and forty-one hundredth of an Acre" of land located in "the Township late called Franklin but now Pompton in the County of Bergen" for the sum of "twenty- eight pounds five shillings." This document also records the complete land survey and a reference to its record number with the Surveyor-General's Office in Perth-Amboy. The document is signed and sealed by Jacob Arnold and witnessed by James Board Sr. and James Dougherty. Docketed and certified on the verso with a manuscript note by William Colfax a judge of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas for Bergen County. <br> <br> Two of the men connected with this indenture played interesting roles during the Revolutionary War both connected with George Washington. Jacob Arnold 1749-1827 served under Washington as commander of the light- horse militia of Morris County and was proprietor of a tavern on the Morristown Green used by Washington as a headquarters. William Colfax 1758-1838 was a member of George Washington's "Life Guard" his personal bodyguard service from 1778 to the end of the Revolution. He was present at the Battle of Bunker Hill was wounded at White Plains and witnessed Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown. unknown books
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