Deed - John Watts to Town of Worthington, 1826

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Identifier

2011a-001

Title

Deed - John Watts to Town of Worthington, 1826

Subject

Legal Documents, Deeds, etc.

Description

Deed, dated March 28, 1826, from John Watts to Town of Worthington. For 10 dollars, Watts gives 'said inhabitants of Worthington in their corporate capacity and their successors forever, a tract of land lying in Worthington aforesaid bounded as follows. Beginning at the northwest corner of the burying grounds on my farm and running east two degrees north on the Town road, twenty rods and four links thence south two degrees east, ten rods and eighteen links, thereon west two degrees south twenty rods and four links, thence north two degrees west, ten rods and eighteen links to the first bounds, containing one acre? fifty seven rods and one third of a rod.' Signed by John Watts. Witnessed by Nelson Mitchell and William Ward, and signed additionally by William Ward as Justice of the Peace

Format

20.3 x 31.8 cm (8 x 12.5 in)

Date

1800/1833

Date Available

2011-01-15

Is Part Of

Box 29d

Medium

Paper

Coverage

Worthington - Worthington Center

Mediator

ddb - edited and updated, 11/7/2016, added image

Language

English

Date Created

March 28, 1826

Date Accepted

November 2010

Provenance

discarded by town, found by George Bresnick and donated to the Historical Society

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