It was verboten, but Pete took some photos anyway.....
We were both relieved none of our deeds were in book 666.
This is the deed from 1903, when crippling arthritis was inevitable for many civil servant clerks
This is the map on the deed from 1864, (36 years before the house was built) when one Samuel Duff willed 160 acres to his six sons. Each son got about the same amount of land. The U shaped double line at the bottom is the local creek. The map from the deed is upside down with north on the bottom.
I found several Samuel Duff's who were living around this time, so at this point I'm not sure what this guy did for a living. Hopefully by the next post I will have read through all the deeds and completed more research in the local archives. The land was transferred twelve times from 1864 to the present.
