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Read, Sophia C. (fl. 1859-1864) Assignment of mortgage: Sophia C. Read to Benjamin C. Barroll

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03545.24.01 Author/Creator: Read, Sophia C. (fl. 1859-1864) Place Written: Baltimore, Maryland Type: Manuscript document Date: 20 May 1864 Pagination: 4 p. ; 40 x 27 cm. Order a Copy

Copy of the mortgage agreement. As Read was living in Gravesend, England at the time, the document is signed by a public notary from England stating she appeared. Barroll assigned the mortgage to John G. Lantz on 4 June 1864. Samuel Spier signed as a witness. With United States inter revenue foreign exchange stamps and life insurance stamps.

From the archive of Baltimore attorney Nathaniel Williams.

Read, Sophia C., fl. 1859-1864
Barroll, Benjamin, fl. 1864
Lantz, John G., fl. 1864

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