"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."
The subject today is an 1867 deed in the Taylor County, Iowa deed books for the estate of William Lewis selling land in Taylor County to R. Smith.
The transcription of this deed record is:
[page 60]
Lewis Estate to R. Smith
01 Know all men by these presents that whereas on the
02 5th day of Feb 1867 Leonard Lewis filed in the offices
03 of the Clerk of the District Court of Taylor County Iowa
04 his petition praying the partition of the following described
05 real estate, to wit. The North East quarter of Section No
06 Twenty three the north half of the south west quarter
07 of Section No twenty two and the west half of the South
08 east quarter of Section No Twenty one all in Township
09 No. Sixty Eight north in Range No Thirty three west
10 containing Three three Hundred and twenty acres more
11 or less and Situated in the County of Taylor and
12 State of Iowa. And whereas at the March term of
13 1867 of said Court a decree was made that partition
14 thereof be made and J C Ray S P Bristo and Thomas
15 Brock were appointed referees to make partition of
16 Said land and whereas at the September term of
17 1867 said referees made report to said Court that
18 partition thereof could not be made without mate-
19 rial prejudice and an order was of Said term made
20 for the sale thereof and whereas the said referees
21 did on the 24th of December 1867 by virtue of
22 and in accordance with the Decree of said Court did
23 sell the west half of the north East quarter of Section
24 No Twenty three in Township No Sixty Eight north of
25 Range No Thirty three west. T[o] R. Smith for the
26 sum of Two Hundred and Twenty dollars he being
27 the highest and best bidder therefor and whereas
28 said referees were refered to sell said premises
29 and take one half cash in hand and one half
30 to be paid in one year from day of Sale to be secured
31 by Mortgage upon the premises sold and to make
32 and deliver to the purchaser thereof a good and suffi-
33 cient deed of conveyance for Said Land. Now
34 therefore in consideration of the foregoing premises
35 and of the sum of Two Hundred and Twenty dollars
36 aforesaid J C Ray S P Bristo and Thomas Brock
37 referees so aforesaid do hereby sell and convey unto
38 the said R Smith his heirs and assigns forever
39 all of the right title and interest of the heirs of
40 Wm Lewis in and to land last above described
41 to have and to hold the same to him his heirs
42 and assigns forever.
[page 61]
43 witness our hands this 24th day of Dec 1867
44 { Revenue Stamp } J C Ray }
45 S P Bristow } Referees
46 T H Brock }
47 State of Iowa
48 County of Taylor } SS On this 24th day of Dec 1867
49 before me the undersigned Notary Public in and for
50 the County and State aforesaid personally appeared
51 J C Ray S P Bristow and Thomas Brock Referees as aforesaid to me pers-
52 onally Known to be the identical persons whose
53 names are affixed to the foregoing conveyance as
54 grantors and Severally acknowledged the execution
55 of the same to be his voluntary act and deed
56 Witness my hand and Seal done in Bedford
57 Iowa day and year last aforesaid.
58 { Notarial Seal} S T McCann
59 Notary Public
60 I certify that the foregoing is a true and and correct
61 copy of the original Deed as filed for Record on
62 the 26th day of Dec A D 1867
63 Daniel Underwood
64 Recorder
65 Examined and approved in open Court this
66 24th day of March A D 1868
67 James G Day
68 Judge 3d District
69 Iowa
70 This above deed was not approved till after
71 the Record was made the approval being recorded
72 March 26th A D 1868 D Underwood
73 Recorder
The source citation for this deed is:
Taylor County, Iowa, "Taylor County, Iowa, deed records, 1855-1953; index, 1855-1902", "Deed Records (Land) v. J (1867-1869) v. K-L (1867-1870)," Volume J, pages 60-61 (stamped), Deed of William Lewis Estate to Ranslow Smith, 1867; accessed 4 February 2014 on FHL US/CAN microfilm 1,535,632.
I think that this is the earliest deed in the records for Ranslow Smith buying land in Taylor County, Iowa. Obviously, I need a scorecard to keep track of all of these deeds - I have about 30 of them all from this one county.
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