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Content Description Deed documenting sale of property in Washington County, Ark. from R. H. Bean and his wife, Mary L. Bean, to John M. Lacy, as well as accompanying document with Circuit Court clerk’s certification of the deed, 1870; deed documenting sale of property in Washington County, Ark. from Richard H. Bean and Mary L. Bean to Mark Bean, 1857, with an addendum dated 1862 by Mark and Nancy Bean bequeathing the property to John M. Lacy and Eliza P. Lacy, as well as accompanying document with Circuit Court...

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Deeds, tax receipts, and abstracts.

The incomplete set of records contains deeds, tax receipts, abstracts, and other records pertaining to Boone County property from 1873 to 1922. Folder 24 contains miscellaneous receipts for unspecified services rendered by Boone County Abstract.

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This collection contains family correspondence, deeds, general financial materials, tax receipts, land patents, and certificates.

Scope and Content Note Series 1 contains 33 items of correspondence. Twenty of the 24 letters dated 1857-1898 are to James Albert Buchanan, and pertain to land, familial, and other affairs of the Buchanan family of Washington County, Ark., especially to the role of County Surveyor J. A. Buchanan in work performed 1880-1881 for railroads under construction in the vicinity. Nine letters dated 1928-1929 pertain to Herbert Earle Buchanan's candidacy for presidency of Washington and Lee University; correspondencents...

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Deed executed March 27, 1886 by J. C. Kirby and Mary Kirby of Washington County, Arkansas, conveying to named members of Board of Trustees of Cane Hill College, for $175.00, approximately 4 acres in East half of Northeast quarter of Section 8, T14N, R32W, in Washington County; attaching MS/PR "Cirtificate [sic] of Record" executed February 15, 1887 by Washington County Cleark J. N. Tillman.

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Land and allied papers dealing with property in Southwest Arkansas (Red River).

Correspondence, deeds, mortgages, maps and plats, and other material pertaining to land ownership and to the sale and purchase of lands in Arkansas, particularly in Lafayette, Hempstead, and Pulaski Counties. Correspondents include James Chestnut, Jr.

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The collection contains genealogical research, correspondence, photographs, property records, and other materials related to the Divelbiss and Reel families. The materials follow the ancestry of Maude Divelbiss Reel and her husband, Blanchard Frank Reel. Many materials relate to family members who lived in Washington County, Arkansas, and particularly in Elkins, Arkansas.

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The collection consists of a 17th-century sheepskin indenture documenting the lease of land in Kent, England from Canterbury Cathedral to farmer Paul Epps, as well as a draft of a partial transcription of the indenture that was created by Ann Vizier in 1968.

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The collection consists of papers relating to the Frost and Boone families of Tennessee and Arkansas, particularly property and financial records. Also included are records pertaining to estates administered by Thomas Wright Frost, and records relating to the Regular Baptist Church of Washington County, Arkansas.

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Deed from David Gillespie of New York, NY, conveying to Israel Foote[?] of New York, NY, in consideration of $20.00, 160 acres of military bounty land in T8N, R8W, Arkansas Territory; executed at New York Aug. 16, 1823, and filed for record by Pulaski County, Ark. recorder Aug. 8, 1824.

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General Land Office patent issued October 2, 1854 on assignment of title to 40 acres in T 17 N, R 4 E, in Michigan, located under bounty land warrant issued to veteran Isaac E. Bartlett.

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Indenture executed in Middlesex County, England, February 22, 1525, by Rauf Jackson and Eustace Ripley, leasing to John Bek a tenancy in the parish of St. Clement Dane. Also includes a typed transcript.

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The collection consists of materials pertaining to the Johnson family of Washington County, Arkansas, and to family homes (particularly the Johnson House in Johnson, Ark.) and a family business (the Johnson Mill), as well as to Johnson Baptist Church and to local politics and elections. Materials include photographs, business records, property records, autograph books, correspondence, and clippings.

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Printed and filled in land grants to Joseph Smally, Independence County, 1839, and to David [Heikes], Independence County, 1856.

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The collection consists of the papers of Arkansas philanthropist and University of Arkansas alumna Jewel Minnis and the Minnis family. The bulk of the materials are financial, legal, and property records, including 19th-century Arkansas deeds. The last series of the collection consists of a biography of Jewel Minnis by Bill Sayger, as well as photographs and research materials he compiled for the project.

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Instrument dated March 19, 1841, conveying to Daniel Pierce, in consideration of $75, 40 acres in T8N, R30W, Crawford County, Arkansas with certifying endorsements of James Woodson Bates, presiding judge of Crawford County, March 20, 1841, and Alexander McLean, clerk of Crawford County, May 6, 1841.

Scope and Content Note MS, PrMS, PR, TS Correspondence, legal documents, military forms, receipts, promissory notes, and other items comprise Joseph Robinson Rutherford's papers. The papers pertain to family concerns; Company "A", Arkansas Home Guard Militia; carming, the sale of Seth Thomas clocks, and other business interests. Upon moving from Tennessee to Benton County, Arkansas in 1851, Joseph Robinson Rutherford began a varied career as farmer, businessman, politician and...

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Warranty deeds and other documents pertaining to the purchase and sale of lands in Searcy County, Arkansas, by members of the Shipman family and others.

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The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, property records, newspaper clippings, and other materials pertaining to Judge David Walker and the Walker family. Included are materials related to the service of David Walker and other family members in the Confederate Army during the U. S. Civil War, as well as materials related to David Walker's judicial and legal career, and to Senator James David Walker's legal and political career.

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Pre-emption certificate for 126.97 acres in T11S, R26W, Hempstead County, Arkansas made to James C. Reed on July 1, 1859; deed, dated January 17, 1874, conveying 165.32 acres in same township and range from Alexander Avery to Wilson P. Wallace in consideration of $550.

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Military bounty land warrant number 23448, awarded to Harmon Wart for his service during the War of 1812. The warrant was for "160 acres being the north east quarter of section 18, township 6 north, range 9 west" in Arkansas Territory.