Cummings (Cummins) (Cumins) (Benjamin)  SALISBURY

    
1814 - Ballston Spa, Saratoga, New York
Date: February 01, 1814
Location: New York
Paper: Saratoga Journal

This is another sheriff's sale notice — same type of record as your 1821 find, but seven years earlier, and it's a significant discovery because it shows Cummins Salisbury had earlier financial/ legal trouble too.

Transcription:

By virtue of a writ of fi. fa. issued out of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the state of New York, I shall expose to sale at public vendue on the tenth of February next, at one o'clock P.M. at Richie's Inn at Ballston Spa, the real and personal property of Cummins Salisbury, in the town of Greenfield — The real estate is bounded on the west by the Fisher Range, on the south by John Harris, on the east by Sax — Dated Dec. 28, 1813.

N. KETCHUM, Late Sheriff.
E. Rea, Dep'ty.

What it means:

"Writ of fi. fa." = a writ of fieri facias, the formal Latin name for the same kind of execution as your 1821 notice — a court order commanding the sheriff to seize and sell a debtor's property (both real estate and personal property this time) to satisfy a money judgment.
Issued out of the Supreme Court of Judicature of the State of New York — this was New York's highest trial-level court at the time (not to be confused with today's "Supreme Court" naming, which in NY is actually the trial court — same name, same role continuity). This tells you the underlying lawsuit was significant enough to be in the state's principal court, not just a local justice's court.
Sale location: Richie's Inn, Ballston Spa — again, an inn as the public auction venue, standard practice.
Property: land in the town of Greenfield (Saratoga County), bounded by the "Fisher Range" (west), John Harris (south), and "Sax" (east) — likely an abbreviated surname (possibly Saxe/ Sacks, common in that area).
Dated Dec. 28, 1813, with the sale set for Feb. 10, 1814.
N. Ketchum, late Sheriff / E. Rea, Deputy — different sheriff and deputy than the 1821 notice (John Dunning/ Potter Johnson), confirming this is a separate, earlier event with different county officials.

    
1817 Mortgage

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1817 Mortgage continued

Mortgage from William W Welch, of Clinton, Dutchess, New York, to Cummins Salisbury, of Greenfield, Saratoga, New York

"For and in consideration of the penal sum of six hundred and sixty six dollars conditioned for the payment of three hundred and thirty three dollars and thirty three cents..."

New York, Land Records, 1630-1975
Saratoga Mortgagee index 1791-1899 N-T
Mortgagee, Mortgagor, Book, Page
Cummins Salisbury, William W Welch, 10, 86

New York, Land Records, 1630-1975
Saratoga Mortgages 1815-1819 vol 9-10 Image 306 of 504

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Date: September 19, 1821
Location: New York
Paper: Saratoga Sentinel

Date: October 17, 1821
Location: New York
Paper: Saratoga Sentinel

This is a sheriff's sale notice (also called a "sheriff's execution sale") from 1821 — a great genealogical find if you're tracing the Salisbury or Stafford/ Avery families.

Full transcription:

By virtue of an execution, to me directed and delivered against William Salisbury, Cummins Salisbury, and Silas Salisbury, I shall sell at publick vendue, at Nehemiah Wing's inn, in Greenfield, on the 31st day of October next, at one o'clock P.M. all the right and title of Cummins Salisbury to a lot of land, situate in the town of Saratoga Springs, and bounded as follows, viz. on the north and east by the lands of the widow Stafford and Amos Stafford; on the south by the lands of Benjamin Avery; and on the west by the lands of Samuel Stafford — containing 130 acres, more or less. — Dated Sept. 17, 1821.

JOHN DUNNING, late Sheriff.
POTTER JOHNSON, Deputy. 18 6w

What it means, genealogically:

"Execution" here is a legal term — a court order to seize and sell a debtor's property to satisfy a judgment (i.e., someone won a lawsuit against these three men and the court authorized the sheriff to sell their assets to pay the debt). This is not a criminal execution.
William, Cummins, and Silas Salisbury were jointly named in a debt judgment. Only Cummins Salisbury's interest in this particular parcel is being sold — suggesting the three may have held property jointly or been co-signers/ co-defendants on a bond or note.
"Publick vendue" = a public auction.
Nehemiah Wing's inn, in Greenfield — taverns and inns were the standard venue for these sales; this tells you Greenfield (likely Greenfield, Saratoga County, NY, given the Saratoga Springs land) is where the auction physically took place, even though the land itself was in Saratoga Springs.
The land: 130 acres in Saratoga Springs, bounded by lands of the widow Stafford, Amos Stafford, Benjamin Avery, and Samuel Stafford — these four neighboring names are gold for cluster/ FAN research (Friends, Associates, Neighbors), since they were likely relatives, in-laws, or long-term associates of the Salisburys.
John Dunning, "late Sheriff" and Potter Johnson, Deputy — Dunning had apparently just left or was leaving office (hence "late"), with Johnson carrying out the sale as deputy.
"18 6w" at the end is a typesetting notation — it ran for 6 weeks starting around the 18th (of some month), standard for legal notices requiring public posting over time.

    
Greenfield, Saratoga, New York
Date: May 08, 1822
Location: New York
Paper: Saratoga Sentinel

This is a fascinating and important find — a newspaper legal notice from the Albany Argus (1822) naming Cummings Salisbury as an insolvent debtor. This is a genuinely new type of record for your file — not a land deed, but a public notice tied to a New York State insolvency proceeding.

The relevant notice:

"By order of James Thompson, Esq., first judge of the court of common pleas and for the county of Saratoga, notice is hereby given to all the creditors of Cummins Salisbury, of the town of Greenfield, in said county, an insolvent debtor, to show cause, if any they have, before the said judge, at his office in said county, on the twentieth day of June next, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, why an assignment of all his insolvent's estate should not be made, and his person be exempted from imprisonment pursuant to the act, entitled 'an act to abolish imprisonment for debt in certain cases,' passed April 7, 1819. Dated May 2, 1822."

What this tells you:

Cummings Salisbury declared insolvency in 1822, in Saratoga County, still residing in the Town of Greenfield — consistent with all your other Greenfield land references (1807, 1815, 1897 boundary language).
This was a formal legal proceeding under New York's 1819 "Act to Abolish Imprisonment for Debt in Certain Cases" — essentially an early form of bankruptcy protection, where a debtor could have his estate assigned to creditors in exchange for being exempted from debtor's prison.