David MOSHER
1817 Land Split



The index (image 1) lists five entries, all mortgages from William W. Welch, recorded consecutively in the Saratoga Mortgage Book covering 1815–1819:

Mortgagee Page
Cummins Salisbury 86
David Fish 87
George Mosher 88
Reuben Randall 89
Benjamin Mosher 97
What the abstracts (images 2 & 3) reveal

Each abstract is dated October 24, 1817, and follows an identical template: William W. Welch of Clinton, Dutchess County, NY, mortgages back an equal undivided one-sixth part of the same tract to each of these five men. The land is described consistently as:

Lot No. 3 of the smaller lots into which Lot No. 2 of the subdivision of Lot No. 11 of the ninth allotment of the patent of Kayaderosseras is subdivided — bounded by a stake in the road running from the narrows of Saratoga Lake to Giles Slocum's, along the south bounds of Lot No. 12, west approx 39 chains, then along the east bounds of the 50 acres sold by Seth C. Baldwin to Amos Stafford, approx 31 chains, to the six-mile line (west bounds of the patent of Saratoga), then north along that line and the west bounds of the Amos Stafford farm back to the beginning — containing 130 acres.

Terms are nearly identical too: penal sum of $666 (Randall's shows $600, slightly different — worth double-checking that page if you get a clearer image), conditioned on payment of $333.33. All were acknowledged before John Pettit, Master in Chancery, on October 24, 1817, and recorded October 27, 1817.

Why this matters for your tree

This is a single coordinated purchase: Welch sold the 130-acre Lot No. 3 to five buyers simultaneously, each taking an undivided 1 sixth share and mortgaging the purchase price back to Welch on the same day. Four of the five buyers map directly onto David & Mary Mosher's children (or their spouses):

Cummins Salisbury ↔ husband of Elizabeth Mosher
George Mosher ↔ son
Reuben Randall ↔ husband of Deborah Mosher
Benjamin Mosher ↔ son

That's a strong, document-based confirmation that these four households were operating as a family unit in a joint land purchase in Greenfield, Saratoga County — exactly where you'd expect if they were siblings and in-laws pooling resources.

Did all of this property once belong to David Mosher?

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