Gabriel Kerr Guardianship and Heirs 1834

Deed book 6 page 440-441 dated 27 Apr 1835

Jane Kerr & Joseph Davidson Guardians of Washington Kerr, et al.

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Thomas Kerr - Deed

Petitions for sale of land wherein Jane Kerr and Joseph Davidson are guardians of Washington Kerr, Andrew P. Kerr, Malinda Kerr, and Eliza Jane Kerr, all infant heirs of Gabriel Kerr, late of Lawrence Co., Ohio

Were ordered to sell at public auction certain Real Estate of said defendant hereafter described and said guardian having advertised said real estate, did on 8 Nov. 1834 sell the same at public auction to Thomas Kerr of said county for $250, which sale was afterward at November Term of said court 1834.

It was confirmed that said Guardians ordered to execute and deliver a deed in fee simple to Thomas Kerr for premisses sold...

Therefore, we, Jane Kerr and Joseph Davidson, Guardians of Washington Kerr, Malinda Kerr, Andrew P. Kerr, and Elisa Jane Kerr...

171 81/100 acres in the SW quarter of Section 24, Township 2, Range 17 to be sold in the Chillicothe District to Thomas Kerr and his Heirs...27 April 1835.

27 April 1835, before Solomon Beckley, JP, personally appeared Jane Kerr and Joseph Davidson and acknowledged the foregoing deed as their free and voluntary act and deed as Guardian of Washington, Malinda, Andrew P., and Elisa Jane Kerr.

Witness signed Solomon Beckley, JP
2 May 1835

...Foregoing is a true copy of the original received for the record. 27 April 1835

Did you know: "At that time (when the county was first founded December 1816 ), the county's population was 665, and its only postmaster Thomas Kerr of Burlington."

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