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At the request of Charles F. Wenner the following Mortgage was recorded September 7th 1857.

This Mortgage made this seventh day of September in the year eighteen hundred and fifty seven, by John Short, Witnesseth that in consideration of three promissory notes, one note for the payment of five hundred and fifty dollars and forty three cents, with interest dated January 2, 1854: one note for the payment of five hundred and seven dollars and thirty two cents, with interest dated January 1, 1856: and the third and last note for the payment of six hundred dollars, with interest dated September 5, 1857 now owing from the said John Short to Charles F, Wenner, doth grant deeds unto the said Charles F, Wenner all that tract or parcel of land, lying and being in the east end of the town of Berlin

in the

county aforesaid, embracing the entire lot number eighty four, and part of lot number eighty three, in the town aforesaid, and also part of a tract of land called "Potomac Farm" all of which will more fully appear by reference to the deed from Joseph Waltman to the said John Short dated April 3, 1851, and recorded in Leber E.S. no.2 folio 490 for the

metes and bounds, courses and distances,

also all that portion of the lot of ground number thirty, in the town of Berlin on the south east corner of said lot, with a stable thereon, being sixteen feet by twelve feet: and the said John Short for the consideration above named, doth also bargain and sell to the said Charles F, Wenner the following personal property; four pair of feather beds, bedsteads and bedding, fifty yards of woolen