This indenture documents the purchase by Abijah Yelverton of several lots in Newburgh for five shillings. But the next day, 12/28/1775, he purchases the same proporties for one hundred pounds.
This indenture documents the purchase by Abijah Yelverton of several lots in Newburgh for one hundred pounds that he appeared to purchase the day before for five shillings.
This indenture documents the loan made by Joseph Drake and Thomas Beach to Abijah Yelverton for him to settle with Peter Townsend's Estate for a prior loan made by Peter Townsend during his lifetime. Abijah Yelverton is in turn compelled to sell...
Church schools; Churches; Clippings;Cycling; Farm life; Floods; Homicides; War;
Newspaper clipping with stories of the first one hundred years of the Chester Presbyterian Church and its ministers. Clipping also includes other short unrelated articles of local interest.
Advertisements; Letterheads; Real estate development;
This prospectus promotes the development of the hill to the south of Greycourt. Several lots were sold, but it did not attract the "grand camping houses" that the promoters wished for.
Clippings; Water supply; Lakes & ponds; Actions & defenses; Lawyers;
This article reports on a lawsuit concerning the conflict between the Village of Chester's use and control of Walton Lake as its water supply and the surrounding property owners.
Hector St. John (Michel-Guillaume Jean de Crevecoeur) formally sells his Pine Hill Farm, which he bought in 1769, to Thomas Moffatt.
During the American Revolution, he refused to take up arms against the British. Therefore, he was suspected of...