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[which_chick]

My mother is sending me THREE FUCKING MEGABYTE emails about geneaology because she can't open the attachments. *sigh* I'm all for helping a brutha out, particularly a brutha who wiped my shitty ass for three years and didn't strangle me during my toddler years. However, I'm on a 26.4 Kbps dialup connection at home.

I think it's time we had THE TALK about attachments, proper size of.

While I'm waiting for the damn email to come in, you might like to know that Zar Paint and Varnish Remover works really well. It's good stuff -- I can feel the ozone dissolving from here, even. It's about the consistency of snot (the lable says "semi-paste") and you spread it on with a paintbrush you don't like very much and then scrape it off after it has had some time to soak a bit. There are two pieces of advice that the lable offers and I'm going to reiterate them here for you in case you might be the kind of daft soul who would disregard them, which of course, I would never be. Never.

Advice the first: Use only with adequate ventilation This means open AT LEAST two windows. Even in wintertime. A fan blowing away from your face wouldn't hurt. Outside is better. Are you sure you can't wait until spring? Sniffing can cause death, and this is some methyl-ethyl badshit in the most paint-removerly way possible. Active ingredients are methanol, methylene chloride, and Toluene. None of these are good for you. Open a window. Open another. I'm just saying.

Advice the second: Wear CHEMICAL RESISTANT gloves Even the cheap grocery-store kitchen glubs from Rubbermaid will work. They aren't kidding about this. It doesn't hurt at first. It doesn't hurt for a good five minutes, but after that, it gets quite unpleasant. Er. So I hear.

Whoa. Hold the phone! First email complete. Yippee.

Er. It's a .pdf attachment. It's an UPSIDE-DOWN .pdf as a matter of fact. What the fuck? Okay, .pdf viewer will rotate 180. Now it's right-side-up. Oh, frabjous day! It's a fucking article of indenture. Well, y'know, that's what I want to do with my Sunday evening, translate a fucking indenture from the handwriting of the late 1700's to something my mother can read. Here we go.

This Indenture made this 30th day of January one thousand seven hundred and ninety Between Anne Cornelius and Jonas William Cornelius and and (there are two ands in the original) Iephtha(?) Cornelius of Pittsylvania County of the one part and Daniel Kreyter (this is my best guess on his last name. The last part is --eyter.) of the same place and County aforesaid Witnesseth (they use those stupid f s-characters) that the said Ann Cornelius, Wm. Cornelius and Iephtha (Is this right? I dunno. The ending characters are damn sure --phtha. It was the era of stupid names. It could be Iephtha.) Cornelius for and in consideration of the sum of one hundred pounds to them in hand paid by the said Daniel Kreyser, the receipt whereof the said Ann Cornelius, Wm Cornelius and Iephtha Cornelius doth hereby acknowledge hath bargained, granted, sold, ?offed and conformed and doth by these presents, bargain, grant, sell, infeaff (??) and confer unto him the said Daniel Kreyter his heirs Executors and Administrators forever a certain tract of land lying and being in the County of Pittsylvania containing Two hundred and two acres on both sides of Birch (?) branch of frying pan Creek (that's what it looks like) be the some more or less and adjoining the Lands of Jacob B?rger, David Ross and the Orderland and bounded as followeth, to wit, Beginning at a white oak thence newlines south fifty and half degrees east eighty poles crossing a branch to a small white oak, North forty seven ? degrees East one hundred and eighty poles to pointers North forty six degrees West one hundred eighty four poles to a white oak, Southy fifty seven and a half degrees, west one hundred and forty poles to a white oak, South twenty one and a half degrees East one hundred and forty poles to the first Station, to have and to hold the said Bargain and granted Premises with all the appurtenances and privileges (he spells it with a B???) thereunto belonging to the the said Daniel Kreyder, his heirs and afsigns to his or their own proper use and behoof forever And the said Ann Cornelius, Wm. Cornelius and Iephtha Cornelius doth by these presents warrant and forever defend the said land unto the said Daniel Streyder and his heirs forever against the ?? clames or demands of any person or persons whosoever in Witnefs whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and seals the day and year first above written. Signed, sealed, and delivered in presents of us

?? Robinson, James (his mark) Henson, Jacob Barger

Ann (her mark) Cornelius, Wm Cornelius, Iephtha Cornelius.

Court held for Pittsylvania County the 19th day of April, 1790 The within indeure was proved by the oaths of the witnefses thereto to be the acts and deed of the above named Ann Cornelius, William Cornelius and Ieptha Cornelius and the same was Ordered to be Recorded By the Court
Will Tunstall L?swirlything

Right. Mom? There ya go. Enjoy.

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[electroweak.livejournal.com]

infeaff: This must be a Colonial's idea of "enfeoff," which means to grant a feudal estate to someone.

?offed: Could this be "proffer," to offer as proof or payment?

afsigns: "assigns," which nowadays we nonlawyers would call "the guys with his power of attorney."

Everything I needed to know I learned from kindergarten too many history books.

Legalese

[(Anonymous)]

Many thanks for the information. I knew what assigns were and proffered as well. All I learned I learned from years of doing genealogy in county courthouses across the ancestral trail. Jeptha is the weird name, as it happens. Signed: Chick's incompetent, but not senile, mother.