From Bellport-Brookhaven Historical Society Christmas Tour of Old Houses, Dec 14, 1959: "Ezra [Elisha] King House (1860-1870) was originally a three room cottage, now the present dining room. Interesting old English pewter and brasses and several old hunting prints. Owned by Mrs. Alan Baker."
From the 1930 New York Social Blue Book, the address for Mr. And Mrs. Alan Griffin Baker was given as 14 E60 St, Brooklyn & "Fire Place Farm," Brookhaven, L.I.
Suffolk County Deed Records, Liber 554, p. 74.
This Indenture, made this 28th day of May in the year of our Lord 1904,
Between Oscar F. Fanning, Referee in the action hereinafter mentioned, of the Village of Riverhead in the County of Suffolk, New York, of the first part, and Hugh H. Harrison of the City of New York, in the County of New York, New York, of the second part.
Whereas,
At a Special Term of the County Court of Suffolk County, held at Village of Patchogue, on the 14th day of April 1904,
it was among other things, ordered, adjudged and decreed by the said Court, in a certain action then pending in the said Court, between Francis S. Woodhull against Elisha E. King, Ezra B. King, and Agnes M. King,
That all and singular the premises described in a mortgage executed by Elisha E. King to Francis S. Woodhull, and recorded in Suffolk County Clerk’s office, in Liber 267 of Mortgages at page 259, and being the same premises mentioned in the complaint in said action, and in said judgment described, or such part thereof as is sufficient to discharge the mortgage debt, the expenses of the sale, and costs, of said action, and which might be sold separately without material injury to the parties interested, be sold at public auction, according to law and practice of said court, by and under the direction of the said Oscar F. Fanning, who was appointed a Referee in said action and to whom it was referred by the said judgment , among other things, to make such sale, that the said sale be made in the County where the said mortgaged premises, or the greater part thereof, are situated,
that said Referee give public notice of the time and place of such sale, according to the course and practice of said Court, and
that any of the parties in said action might become a purchaser or purchasers on such sale,
that the said Referee execute to the purchaser or purchasers of the said mortgaged premises or such part or parts thereof as shall be sold, a good and sufficient deed or deeds of conveyance for the same and pay taxes, assessments, or water rates which were liens upon the property sold etc.
And Whereas,
The said Referee in pursuance of the order and judgment of the said Court, did on the 28th day of May 1904, sell at public auction at the Bank Building in the village of Riverhead, Suffolk County, New York, the premises in the said order and judgment mentioned, due notice of the time and place of such sale being first given pursuant to said judgment; at which sale the premises hereinafter described, were fairly struck off, to the said party of the second part for the sum of Eight Hundred and Ten Dollars ($810.00) the highest bidder therefor.
Now, this Indenture Witnesseth,
That the said Referee, the party of the first part to these presents, in order to carry into effect the sale so made by him as aforesaid, in pursuance of the order and judgments of said Court, and in conformity to the Statute in such case made and provided, and also in consideration of the premises, and of the said sum of money so bidden as aforesaid having been first duly paid by the said party of the second part, the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged, hath bargained and sold and by these presents doth grant and convey unto the said party of the second part, all the right, title and interest which the said Elisha E. King mortgagors aforesaid, had at the time of the execution or recording of said mortgage, it being their interest in said premises which was so sold and is hereby conveyed in and to All that Tract or Parcel of Land, situate in the Town of Brookhaven, County of Suffolk, and State of New York, bounded and described as follows:
Commencing at the northwest corner of said tract at the north end of a certain fence and adjoining the highway known as Fire Place Neck Road and at the northeast corner of a right of way running thence southerly by the fence as it now stands, one hundred and fifty feet, thence easterly one hundred and fifty feet, thence northerly one hundred and fifty feet to the main street or Fire Place Neck Road, thence westerly by and with said street or road one hundred feet to the place of beginning.
To Have and to Hold, All and singular the premises above mentioned and described, and hereby conveyed unto the said party of the second part, his heirs and assigns forever.
In Witness Whereof, The said party of the first part, . .
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