Item 97: List of land transactions by unknown, 1864; 1866-1868

Item — Box: 15, Folder: 152

Staff Only

List of land transactions by unknown, 1864; 1866-1868

Dates

Created: 1864; 1866-1868

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

General Condition:

Good. Paper is in good condition with minimal aging and no creases or tears, just cut unevenly. The typewriter ink appears to have smudged/faded, leaving many letters in a lighter shade.

Measurements:

8 ½ in. x 3 ½ in.

Description:

A typewritten copy of the history of land transactions, presumably of one area. It lists the years, how much land, from who, and who purchased them. Though each has a sale to a company, three list the sales from Sarah Blanchard, suggesting this may have been part of her records. The list concludes with a short land survey. There is a single annotation underlining the year 1888 in red ink. This contains a few typographical errors, but is still very legible despite that and the matters of the ink. The Blanchards were a prominent family of the area in Jenkins Township known as Port Blanchard, which is connected back to Captain Jeremiah Blanchard, one of its first settlers. It is named for one of his children, John Blanchard, and the family was very involved in landowning as seen through the trades and sales their names often show up in.