The Old Eagle School

Strafford, Pennsylvania

1788 * 1842 * 1895

History: The Deed

The following is a reprint of the 1895 court order transferring responsibility for the School and property to the Trustees of the School.

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COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA

COUNTY OF CHESTER

                                                                                                IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS

                                                                                                                OF CHESTER COUNTY

THE OLD EAGLE SCHOOL HOUSE                             No. Miscellaneous  #1462

IN TREDYFFRIN TOWNSHIP                                        In

And now May 6, 1895, this case coming on to be argued upon exceptions filed by the school district of Tredyffrin one of the Respondents, to the report of Robert E. Monaghan, Master and Examiner, the Court after due consideration of said case and the report and recommendation of the Master, de order and decree, that the first eight exceptions filed to said Masters report be and are hereby dismissed, the report confirmed, and the prayer of the Petition filed in this case granted and it is further ordered, adjudged and decreed, First: that the premises particularly described in the survey of John F. Kauffman, Esq. Attached to the Masters Report as follows, to wit:  All that certain lot or piece of ground, with the building and improvements thereon erected, situate in Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, Penna., on the public road leading from Strafford Station, Penna. Railroad, Northwardly toward Port Kennedy, Beginning at a point in the Eastwardly side of said read at or near the intersection of the lines of land of Daniel B. Newhall and Dr. T. G. Newton thence by land now or late of Martha Wentworth, North twenty eight degrees, nine minutes West, one hundred and ninety six feet and seventy seven one hundredths of a foot to a point in line of land of Dr. L. S. Clark; thence by the same North sixty seven degrees, eight minutes East and crossing said read two hundred and twenty-eight feet to a point thence still by the land of the said Clark, South thirty  degrees, forty-six minutes East on hundred and ninety-nine and three-tenths of a foot to the line of land of Daniel S. Newhall, thence by said Newhall’s land South sixty-seven degrees, twenty-nine minutes West crossing and old road, two hundred and thirty-seven feet and twenty-seven one hundredths of a foot to the place of beginning, containing one acre and twelve square perches, more or less, with the hereditaments and appurtenances, be held by the trustees hereinafter named and their successors for the general use and good of the neighborhood for religious and educational purposes and the repose of the deed.  Second:  That Thomas R. Jaquette of Radnor, Kliza Wilde of Berwyn, Dr. John B. Angle of Strafford, Daniel S. Newhall, of Strafford and Henry Pleasants of Radnor, be and hereby are appointed trustees to hold title to said real estate and to administer this charity, and in the exercise of a reasonable discretion, subject always to the further order of the Court, to regulate the manner in which the property can most effectively be utilized for the general use and good of the neighborhood for religious, educational and burial purposes as aforesaid.  Third: That the rights of possession of said premises is in the trustees appointed and the said respondents.  The School District of Tredyffrin Township, Martha Weatworth and Elizabeth Dickensheet, by and hereby are ordered and decreed to surrender full and complete of any part in their seisin or possession to the trustees so appointed and said respondents by and hereby are specially enjoined henceforth from molesting or interfering in any wise with said Trustees their use and enjoyment of said premises for the purpose aforesaid.  Provided that nothing in this decree shall be understood as depriving Martha Wentworth one of the Respondents in this cause of the right of trial by jury upon any question of title either that those arising under deed other School Board of Tredyffrin to Martha Wentworth dated March 21, 1891, and recorded at West Chester in Deed Book 7. 10 Page 260.  Ete. Fourth:  That the ninth exception is sustained and said Respondents do pay one half and the petitioners do pay one half of the costs of these proceedings within thirty days after the same are duly taxed and allowed by the Court.

                                                                                                By the Court:

                                                                                                                W. B. Waddell

FROM THE RECORD

3/19/54

Attest:    Helen C. Earhart

                Deputy Prothonotary.

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