Item 90: Photostat of a Bond of Release by Samuel Purviance and Erastus Smith to Release Lands to the Susquehanna Company (removed to legal box #2), 1874 March 11

Item — Box: 15, Folder: 145

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Photostat of a Bond of Release by Samuel Purviance and Erastus Smith to Release Lands to the Susquehanna Company (removed to legal box #2), 1874 March 11

Dates

Created: 1874 March 11

Disclaimer for Name and Subject Authorities

Some of the name and subject authority tags have been assigned by educated guessing and estimation of persons and subjects by region, age, profession, and familial relationships. They have been thoroughly researched by using primary and secondary sources available digitally, and named in each description, or in some cases linked directly to the person tag.

Access:

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Extent

1 items

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Type of Material:

Legal Contract/Land Deed

General Condition:

Good

Measurements:

12 ⅞ in. x 7 13/16 in.

Description:

This is a photostat copy of a power of attorney between Samuel Purviance Jr. and Erastus Smith over a plot of land on August 6th 1856. The land and its allowances are stated to span through parts of Pittston, Exeter, and Old Forge in Luzerne county. The document is slightly difficult to follow, but seems to be the resolution to either some uncertainties in land ownership or sales. It appears that (rough guess) some land belonging to Purviance was partially given to Smith by way of a warrant in 1856 and later releases the owners of the land from the liability to pay the lien designated by the survey that Purviance entered for another purpose .The bottom of the document is sealed under Surveyor General Robt. B. Beath, 1839-1914, and beneath that is a more recent seal confirming that this is a copy under the name of Isaac B. Brown, 1848-1925. There is another manuscript with Purviance’s land, found in item 34: A Photostat of a Survey of Samuel Purviance’s Land by the Sturdevant Coal Company, [ca. ] (removed to grey box #4)