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Item Specifics
Document Type: Handwritten Manuscript Legal Notice / Sheriff's Sale Draft
Location: Denmark, Maine
Date: December 1856
Key Individuals Mentioned: John Blake, Nath'l S. Littlefield
Subject: 19th-Century Maine Legal History, Real Estate Foreclosure / Execution sale, Sheriff Ephemera
Language: English
Special Attributes: Original handwritten legal draft detailing a public sale execution on a house built by John Blake standing on land owned by Nath'l S. Littlefield in Denmark, Maine, complete with editorial notes ("Put the sale between 20th & 29. of Dec.").
Condition: Clean antique manuscript condition with standard historical fold lines and crisp, dark iron gall ink for sale is an original 1856 manuscript legal document detailing a Sheriff's Sale notice from Denmark, Maine. Headed cleanly at the top "Sheriff's Sale", the text outlines a public sale execution scheduled for December 1856 at the Brackett House in Denmark.
The document details the seizure and intended sale of "all the right and interest which John Blake has to the house lately built by him and now occupied by him standing on land owned by Nath'l S. Littlefield in said Denmark." A fascinating handwritten editorial note at the bottom instructs, "Put the sale between 20th & 29. of Dec.", providing a unique window into the legal drafting and administrative process of 19th-century New England law enforcement and property seizure. An exceptional primary source for local Maine history, genealogy, and legal ephemera collections.
