Item 50a: Typescript Copy of a Land Deed from Sarah Blanchard to the “Pennsylvania & New York Canal and Rail Road Company,” 1867 November 27; (Removed to Legal Box #2) transcribed , 1868 January 23
Item — Box: 15, Folder: 105a
Dates
- Created: 1868 January 23
Creator
- Blanchard Sarah (Lazarus), 1804-1892 (Person)
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Land Deed
General Condition:
Fair.. The paper is fragile due to its age, but the first page has the most yellowing along the top. All three sheets have a crease from being folded in half. The first page has the most tearing with around 5 small tears starting along the right side, though most are minor. The other two have two tears each in the same places which line up with each other and the first page’s, suggesting that something may have damaged them all at the same time.
Measurements:
11 in. x 8 ½ in.
Description:
This is a typescript copy of a land deed from Sarah Blanchard, 1804-1892, to the Pennsylvania and New York Canal and Railroad company for $1500.00 for a plot of land on November 27 1867. The land in question is located in Jenkins township, and it gives a small survey of the land in question and relinquishes it and the waterways to the Pennsylvania and New York Canal & Rail Road company, but reserves the coal on the premises to the Pennsylvania Coal Company. It confirms the sale and transfers all rights from Blanchard to the company, as well as naming the deed’s witness as S. D. Lewis. On the back of the last sheet, there is additional information written in pencil pertaining to the document, including a note that this price would have been the same sold to W. R. Griffith in 1847 by Jerry Blanchard junior. The annotator has inferred this due to the fact that this tract would have been the only one where the Pennyslvania Coal Company’s owned lands met the rail line. The second note states that the south end of the property is the one their grandmother, likely Sarah Blanchard, willed to her heirs, and notes that there is an incorrect notation of a strip reserved by the Pennsylvania Coal company.
Location:
Jenkins Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
Transcription Attempt:
This deed reads worth which would be above the price sold to W. R. Griffith by Jerry Blanchard heir in 1847.
It is the only location where the Penna Coal Co- follow the in line with the railroad.
The south end of the railroad ground mother willed both sides of the railroad to her heirs. The railroad did not follow Penn’a [Pennsylvania] River on south end of track. and The coal on that strip is reserved to Penna coal co which is correct.
Creator
- Blanchard Sarah (Lazarus), 1804-1892 (Person)
Repository Details
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570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu