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Page 1 of the indenture agreement between James Francis Beals and James Elgie Beals. From photocopy provided by Ella Beals Wilson in 1990. Location of original unknown.

The following transcription was made by Richard Brady Williams and Elizabeth Wilson Williams on 27 August 2006:

1. This Indenture made the 25th day of February AD 1911
2. Between J F Beals of Salem Twp Clarion Co ^(of the first part) and J E Beals of
3. Venango County party of the second part witnesseth that the said
4. J F Beals for and in consideration of the yearly rent and convenants
5. hereinafter mentioned and reserved on the part and behalf of the
6. said J E Beals his Executors administrators to be kept and performed
7. hath described set and informed let and by these presents doth describe
8. and [illegible] let unto the said J E Beals his Executors and administrators
9. all that messuage and lot of ground situated lying and being in the
10. Township of Richland Venango Co Pa. Containing One hundred Eighteen
11. acres more or less to be used and occupied as a farm to have
12. and to hold the said messuage and lot of ground and all and singular
13. the premise hereby described with the appurtenances unto the said J E Beals
14. his Executors and administrators from the date hereof until the first
15. day of April 1916. (This agreement however is made subject to an Oil
16. and gas lease now operated by first party hereto and Glenn[?] Criswell
17. said first party further reserves the right to lease the balance of said
18. farm for Oil and gas and to have same operated at pleasure, however
19. said first party to pay a reasonable compensation to the said J E
20. Beals for damages to growing crops by reason of said operations for Oil
21. or gas.) Said second party yielding and paying thereout[?] One Third
22. of all the grain raised on said farm. First party to have enough hay
23. from said farm together with his own hay off his lot-he keeps one horse
24. and one cow. and if second party sells any hay off said farm to
25. pay one third of the proceeds of such sale to said first party. no hay or
26. corn fodder to be removed off said farm. first party to have one third
27. of all fruit growing on said farm and to do his own gathering. second
28. party to have the garden as now enclosed and 1/2 acre beside for a
29. potato patch free. if second party raises in excess of said 1/2 acre
30. of potatoes to yield 1/3 thereof to said first party. said one third of
31. the grain or first party's share to be properly stored in the private[?] in Barn
32. in a merchandisable shape subject to the use or disposal of the same at -

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