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Colonial Williamsburg abstracts of title:  Folder lists

 File — Box: 4, Folder: 1
Identifier: id256471

Scope and Contents

These four lists were attached to the four original folders containing the Abstracts of Title prepared for the Restoration. The folder lists use either the name of the last owner prior to acquisition by Goodwin or a property name such as Hospital or Theater. The lists are not in any particular order, and the abstracts were not filed in the folders in the order of the lists. The lists are deteriorating; a couple of names have worn away: ‘Durfey’, at the top of the second section of the list on the first folder; and ‘Fowler’, the first name on the list for the fourth folder. There are a total of 131 properties named on the four folder lists. Abstracts for fifteen of the listed properties were not present in the four original folders: First folder – Mayo, Cash, Freeman, Brhyn, Graves, Sadie Mahone, and Wolfe; Second folder – Julia W. B. Drew; Third folder – Jackson, Fannie H. Epps, Neale, and Potts; Fourth folder – Shultice, Luttrell–Bourbon, and Casey. There were five Abstracts in the folders that are not listed separately on the folder lists: 1) A second version of the ‘Garage: Bland and Beaston’ Abstract in the first folder, here alphabetized under ‘Bland and Bleasten Garage’; 2) A second property under the name ’Esther R. Davis’ in the second folder; 3) A second property under the name ‘Lane’ in the third folder, owned by Lane, Jr.; 4) An unlisted Abstract dated August 11, 1923, in the third folder, prepared by B. D. Peachy for a property he owned; and, 5) A copy of a ‘Theater’ Abstract in the fourth folder that is a different version of the ‘Theater Property’ Abstract. Also filed in this folder (Folder 1) is a single detached sheet that appears to be the last page of an Abstract of Title, with the date 8 February 1928. It was in the second of the original folders. The 121 Abstracts from the four original folders have been alphabetized in one sequence, and six to eight are filed in each of the following folders.

Dates

  • Creation: circa 1927-1929

Creator

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

English

Conditions Governing Access:

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Extent

From the Collection: 4.20 Linear Feet

Repository Details

Part of the Special Collections Research Center Repository

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