Item 94: Summary by Land Transfers of Jerry Blanchard’s Land, Ranging from, 1799-1817

Item — Box: 15, Folder: 149

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Summary by Land Transfers of Jerry Blanchard’s Land, Ranging from, 1799-1817

Dates

Created: 1799-1817

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:

All series and subseries within this collection are open for research, with the exception of a few files within the Academia series that are restricted. The Academia series contains financial and sensitive institutional records from Wilkes College, and financial report records from Princeton University that will remain restricted for 80 years upon creation.

Extent

1 items

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Type of Material:

List/Research

General Condition:

Fair. The paper is older and somewhat aged in appearance, being yellowed along the edges, but the paper is not fragile or breaking.

Measurements:

11 in. x 8 ½ in.

Description:

A typescript document that summarizes a number of land transfers associated with a Blanchard family at some point after 1850. It seems to mainly follow the lands owned by Jerry Blanchard I to his children and how the sales went on. Following the death of Jerry Blanchard I, much of his lands were given to Jerry II, believed to be Jeremiah Blanchard 1764-1837, and he made some sort of trade with an H. J. Williams. Jerry II then only mentions willing some of his land to his eldest son, John Blanchard, 1801-1853, but it seems other children (Clarissa, 1827-1903; Louisa, 1826-1894; and Elizabeth, 1821-1869) received land too, but most of them sold their tracts of land back to John later. He later sold 19 acres of land to Bloomsburg Coal and Iron and 66 acres of coal to Bloomsburg while reserving the surface, both in 1850. The document closes with John and his wife Sarah Blanchard, 1804-1892, turning over the land to their eldest son, David, 1824-1910. The document itself seems to be printed on the back side of a paper marked for the “Luzerne County Bowling Operators Association.”