Morris County, New Jersey, Deed Book B, pages 392–395 and 545–547 (FamilySearch Morris. Deeds 1790–1796, DGS 008137071, images 210–211 and 289–290): two sheriff's deeds selling Morris lands of the Earl of Stirling and Benjamin Cooper Esq[r] under Jonathan Stiles' judgment — Sheriff John Cobb to Benjamin Hart and Abraham Dickerson (recorded 12 Jan 1795), and Sheriff Hiram Smith to Patrick McGill (30 Apr 1796).

What this document records

🎯 sheriff hiram smith to patrick mcgill 1796

pp. 545–547 (imgs 289–290), read at 1×: > To all people to whom these presents shall come I Hiram Smith Esq[r] high sheriff of the county of > Morris … Whereas Jonathan Stiles Esq[r] lately in the Inferior Court of Common Pleas holden at > Morristown … in the term of December in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred & seventy did recover > against William Earl of Sterling and Benjamin Cooper Esq[r] Three hundred and fifty four pounds one > shilling and two pence Current Money of New Jersey at eight shillings the Ounce for his damages which he > had sustained as well by occasion of the non performance of certain Promises and Assumptions to him … by > them the said William Earl of Sterling and Benjamin Cooper made as for his costs … whereof the said William > Earl of Sterling and Benjamin Cooper are convicted as appears of record. And whereas a certain Writ of Alias > Testatum Fieri facias issued … whereby I was commanded that of the goods and Chattels Lands and tenements of > the said William Earl of Sterling and Benjamin Cooper in my bailiwick I should cause to be made the said sum > … I did take seize and levy on all the following tract of land situate in Roxbury in the County of Morris > aforesaid which lies joining to the Great Pond … Containing one hundred and thirty three acres and > thirty nine hundredths … being a tract of land which was surveyed & returned to Ephraim Tuttle the > twentieth day of March 1755 & recorded in the surveyor General's Office at Perth Amboy in Book S4 page 24. > Which tract … [was] sold on the fourth day of January last at the house of Col. Jacob Drake in Roxbury at > Public vendue … and thereupon Amos Slacke for and in behalf of Patrick M[c]Gill of Roxbury … did then > and there bid for the same the sum of twenty three pounds proclamation money … sold to the said Patrick > M[c]Gill for the said sum … [conveys] all the estate right title interest property claim and demand whatsoever > of the said William Earl of Stirling and Benjamin Cooper of in and to the above bounded and described tract … > In Witness whereof I the said Hiram Smith have hereunto set my hand and seal this thirtieth day of April > in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and ninety six. Hiram Smith Shff (L.S.) · in the presence of > Royal Davis, Sylvester D. Russell. Acknowledged 1 July 1796 before Samuel Tuthill; Received & Recorded > July 7th 1796, Caleb Russell Clk.

🎯 sheriff john cobb to hart and dickerson 1794

pp. 392–395 (imgs 210–211), read at 1–4×: > To all People to whom these Presents shall Come I John Cobb Esq[r] late High Sheriff of the County of > Morris … Whereas a certain Writ of Testatum Fieri Facias did issue out of the Inferior Court of Common > Pleas held at Morristown in & for the County of Morris in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and > ninety three directed and delivered to me (then being Sheriff of said County) by which Writ I was > commanded that of the goods and chattels Lands and Tenements of the Earl of Sterling and Benjamin Cooper > Esq[r] in my bailiwick I should cause to be made three hundred and fifty four pounds one shilling and two > pence … which to Jonathan Stiles Esq[r] lately before the Judges of the same Court were adjudged … by > occasion of the nonperformance of certain promises and Assumptions … whereof the said Earl of Stirling and > Benjamin Cooper are Convicted … which said Writ was tested on the third day of July in the year aforesaid … > by virtue of which Writ among other lands I did take & seize on all that Tract of Land situate in Roxbury > in the County aforesaid Surveyed by Dan[iel] Cooper Jun[r] for the said Earl of Sterling and recorded in > the Surveyor General's Office at Perth Amboy in Book S5 Page 307, July 4th 1766. Beginning at the North > Corner of Jn[o] Budd's 1200 Acre lot at a stake in the Meadow … Containing two hundred and fifty two > Acres strict measure … Sold at vendue at Col. Jacob Drake's in Roxbury; Benjamin Hart and Abraham Dickerson bid £101 proclamation; conveyed to them "as Tenants in Common and not as Joint Tenants", with "all the Estate Right Title … of the said Earl of Stirling and Benjamin Cooper". Signed by John Cobb "late Sheriff" the twenty second day of December in the year seventeen hundred & [ninety?] four — the decade word is cramped at 3×; the writ is 1793 and the deed recorded 12 Jan 1795, so ninety is the reading, marked [?]. Witnesses Sylvester D. Russell, James Jackson.

🔑 what it adds

A third Stirling-partnership creditor alongside [K.36]/[K.37] Vanderveer and [K.38] Livingston: Jonathan Stiles, judgment December Term 1770, £354.1.2, still being levied in 1793–96 on the pair's Roxbury lands — twenty-plus years on, and after Stirling's death. And one of those Roxbury tracts was surveyed for Stirling in 1766 by "Dan[iel] Cooper Jun[r]" — Daniel Cooper Jr, the deputy surveyor (Benjamin's brother).