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Item Specifics
Document Type: Handwritten Manuscript Legal Deed Attachment / Real Estate Document
Location: Naples, Maine
Date: 1855 (Referencing parcels, attachments, and deeds from the 1840s/1850s)
Key Individuals Mentioned: Stephen Kimball, Caroline Kimball (Caroline Plummer), Lyman Hall, John G. Cawnell, Octave Taylor
Subject: 19th-Century New England Real Estate Law, Maine Property History, Genealogy Ephemera, Land Survey Metes and Bounds
Language: English
Special Attributes: Multi-page handwritten legal document detailing official property attachments, metes and bounds land descriptions in Naples, Maine (including references to local burying grounds, schoolhouses, and acreage calculations), complete with marginal calculations and legal fee breakdowns.
Condition: Good antique manuscript condition with expected historical folds, minor edge wear, and clear, dark iron gall ink handwriting for sale is an authentic and detailed 1855 handwritten manuscript legal document relating to real estate attachments and property divisions in Naples, Maine. This multi-page legal instrument meticulously outlines metes and bounds descriptions for local parcels, referencing historical deeds between Stephen Kimball and Caroline Kimball (later Caroline Plummer), alongside mentions of neighbors such as Lyman Hall and John G. Cawnell.
Fascinating historical details within the text include references to a local schoolhouse, a reserved burying ground with specific rights of way, provisions for an aqueduct/water source, and precise acreage measurements (including 25-acre and 4 and 10/16-acre parcels). The reverse and lower sections feature period handwritten calculations, fee itemizations for appraisers, search records, and execution notes. An exceptional primary source document for local Maine history, land surveying genealogy, and legal ephemera collections.
