Genealogy
Documents Proving Land Titles
Gibson County,
Indiana
GenealogyDocuments Proving Land Titles |
Gibson County,Indiana | |
Compiled documents relating to proof of land titles.
(Most
of the documents were assembled in the 1920's, but often refer to
events from much earlier. There is a tremendous amount of detail
referring to proof of family relationships.)
| #131 |
James
Watt, being first duly sworn
on his oath deposes and says, that he was personally acquainted with Theopholis
Wright, D.G. Powell and Archer and Crow, to whom on the 11th day of Jan., 1882, the Sheriff of
Gibson County, Indiana conveyed that part of lot # 124 in the Original Plan of
the Town of Princeton, in Gibson County, Indiana...and he positively knows that
the said D. G. Powell mentioned in said
deed was one and the same person as Doctor G. Powell, who on the 10th day of Feb. 1888 joined with, others
in the conveyance of real estate to Alice J. E. Wilson, and that Archer and Crow was a firm doing
business under that name and composed of two persons namely; David Archer and Anderson D. Crow, and that the said David Archer departed this life in the
latter part of 1883 leaving him surviving as his heirs and only heirs at law,
his widow Martha Archer, his children, Beza Archer and Elizabeth Archer. Signed James Watt Subscribed and sworn
to before me on this 4th day of December, 1926 signed Charles W. Benton, Notary Public
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