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Land Records |
The Whitewright Sun
Thursday, January 23, 1930
pg. 2
FIFTY-FOUR YEAR OLD DEED FILED AT SHERMAN
Sherman
- Practice of the pioneers in using natural growths of different kinds
as markings for land boundaries is brought to mind through a
54-year-old deed filed in the office of the county clerk here for
record. The document transfers ownership of a "tract of land in
the Fielding Askew survey" from H. C. Dillingham and wife to B.C. Ball,
and is dated Jan. 7, 1875. The consideration named is $550.
Although written in ink, the deed is easily decipherable and there is no evidence that the fluid will fade out.
The
area of the tract is not given, but the dimensions in Spanish varas are
carefully enumerated and where nothing else could be used to indicate
boundaries, different kinds of trees, stumps, elevations and
declivities are shown in the description given of the property.
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