Item 110: Handwritten notes on Land Lots, by [Pos. Dorothy Stets Chapman], of Grandmother’s Lands, (Removed to Legal Box #2), [ca. mid-late twentieth century]
Item — Box: 15, Folder: 165
Dates
- Created: [ca. mid-late twentieth century]
Creator
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Note/Map
Transcription Attempt:
Back:
In blue pencil [Handwriting of Pos. Dorothy Stets Chapman]:
Grandmother’s property
294 260 / 554 331 223
Grandmother’s property
294 260 / 554 331 223
General Condition:
Fair. There is slight discoloration and minor tearing along the sides.
Measurements:
12 ½ in.x
Description:
The following item, dated roughly mid-late twentieth century, depicts a hand-drawn survey rendering seven tracts of land along the Branch Canal and Susquehanna River. The tracts each contain the person’s name, the number of said lot, and where it lays located on the parallel line, such as first, second, third, and on. The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company has a tract running through each of the tracts.
The creator has been inferred as possibly Dorothy Blanchard Chapman Stets, as she is seen collecting other manuscripts regarding her family throughout Series IX: Map and Land Deeds, such as the photocopied letter by Rebecca Chapman, item 106. There is an archivist note at the back of the manuscript which mentions that this renders the tract of the creator’s grandmother.
The date of the item has been estimated roughly in the mid-late twentieth century, against the life dates of Stets, 1912-1985.
The location has been inferred from tract four, owned by Sarah Blanchard and Frannie E. Saylor, from its connection to a similar tract owned by the two women and sold in item 70.2a-b.
Location
[Pittston, PA]
Creator
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
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570-408-7823 (Fax)
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