A Memorial of an indented deed of settlement bearing date the sixth day of April in the year 1840 and made between Andrew Oliver[1] of Enagh in the County of Armagh farmer of the first part. Mary Jane Oliver otherwise Hayes[2] wife of the said Andrew Oliver of the second part. William Oliver,[3] Junior of Killinure in the County of Armagh farmer brother of the said Andrew Oliver and James Hayes[4] of Magherkilcranny in the County of Armagh farmer father of the said Mary Jane Oliver, the trustees named chosen nominated and appointed by the said Andrew Oliver and Mary Jane Oliver, for the purposes therein after mentioned expressed and declared of the third part. Reciting as therein and reciting a certain agreement is witnessed that in pursuance of said recited agreement and in order to carry the same into complete and specific execution, and for and in consideration of the sum of £200 by way of a portion or fortune to the said Andrew Oliver in hand well and truly paid by the said James Hayes at or immediately before the ensealing and delivery thereof of the receipt where of was thereby acknowledged and also for and in consideration of two further sums of five shillings apiece by the said William Oliver and James Hayes in hand also paid on the perfection there of the receipt where of was likewise thereby acknowledged. He the said Andrew Oliver did grant bargain sell assign transfer and make over unto the said William Oliver and James Hayes and the survivor of them in the executors, administrators of such survivor. All the premises demised by the there in recited indenture of lease of the 29^th day of October 1821[5] and granted by the said recited deed of trust bearing date the 12^th day of December 1837[6] by the description of all that and those that part of the town and lands of Magherkilcranny formally in the possession of Thomas Morehead[7] – afterwards in the possession of Samuel Carson of the city of Armagh, Apothocary containing by estimation 24 acres and 39 perches Irish plantation measure with the same more or less situate lying and being in the Manor of Toaghy and County of Armagh, as more particularly delineated and described by a map there of. Signed by the respective parties, and in the margin of said lease annexed. To have and to hold the said thereby granted and assigned lands and premises with all and singular the rights, members and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining and the right of cutting turf in and by the said lease granted unto the said William Oliver and James Hayes and the survivor of them, and the executors, administrators of such survivor for and during the remainder of the term of 20 one years in and by the said there in resited indenture of lease granted, and all furniture future renewals to be obtained of said premises during the natural lives and life of the said Andrew Oliver and Mary Jane Oliver and the survivor of them when the trust and to and for such uses intents and purposes as are there in mentioned expressed and declared of concerning the same. Which said indenture of which this rating purports to be a Memorial as to the execution there of by the said Andrew Oliver, Mary Jane Oliver, William Oliver, Junior, and James Hayes is witnessed by David Scarlet[8] of Tynan in the County of Armagh gentleman and Thomas APPLEBY[9] of Armagh, in the County of Armagh, writing, clerk, and which said indenture as to the reacknowledgement thereof by the said William Oliver, Junior, one of the executing parties thereto and this Memorial as to the execution there of by the said William Oliver, Junior, are respectively witnessed by John McKinstry of Armagh, in the County of Armagh, solicitor, and John Robert Hayes[10] of Magherkilcranny in the County of Armagh gentleman.

Signed and sealed by the said William Oliver, Junior in presence of

John McKinstry[11]

John R. Hayes.

William Oliver,

John Robert Hayes of Magherkilcranny in the County of Armagh Gent. aged 18 years and upwards makers oath and saith that he is describing witness to the deed of which the above writing purports to be in a Memorial and also to said Memorial set he saw said deed duly reacknowledged and this Memorial duly signed and sealed by the said William Oliver, Junior, one of the executing parties thereto and hereto and that the name John Robert Hayes subscribed to said deed on the rear acknowledgement thereof and said Memorial as a witness is this deponent’s proper name and handwriting. Sworn before me at Armagh in the County of Armagh this 20^th day of August 1845 by virtue of a commission to me directed fourth of majesties count of Queen’s bench in Ireland for taking affidavits for said court in and for said County and I know the deponent John Davidson[12].