Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Deed of George Graves and wife to Samuel Chestnut

So I had transcribed the deed of George Graves and wife to Samuel Chestnut, but then decided I was probably breaking a copyright law to have it on the internet, so I'm just going to summarize it.

George and Mary Graves lived in Kingston Township and sold Concession I Lot 12 in Pittsburgh Township to Samuel Chestnut on 7 April 1848 for 237 pounds.

This is the George Graves who is the son of George Graves and perhaps Catherine Percy. He got the land from his father in 1839. His father would have died about January 1848. I wonder why he sold the land just after he died, and I wonder why he didn't sell it to one of his four brothers.

Samuel Chestnut was married to Mary Dunlop, the sister of my 3x great grandmother Anne Dunlop Wilmot.

2 comments:

M. Hopkins said...

Hello. I am the great-great grandson of Samuel Chestnut and Mary Dunlop. The lineage is:
son - William Alexander Chestnut to
grandson - Robert Henry Chestnut
to great grand-daughter - Florence Reitta Chestnut(Hopkins) to great-great-grandson - Mark Thomas Hopkins(me)to my children, who are the great(x3) grandchildren of Samuel and Mary. William Alexander had 7 children (including my grandfather) most of whom lived and died here on the West Coast near Vancouver, BC and Seattle, Washington. One son (Andrew) died in the Philippines in 1964. I have a fair bit of information on the descendants of Samuel's siblings as well.

Jill L said...

Thanks for contacting me! I had some pictures sent to me once by Samuel Chestnut's descendants that he found on ebay.