Dublin Core
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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