Shelby County, Indiana
Land Records
Shaw
Land Records
Shaw
If you have any additional information on this parcel of land, please contact me. I am primarily interested in the period from 1837 when this deed was issued until around 1862 when Jesse died. Most of the family moved out of the area around 1853 though I have not accounted for further movement of the eldest children.
Here is the legal description from the deed:
"a part of section fourteen township fourteen north range seven east (T14N-R7E-S14) of lands sold in the district of Brookville beginning at a stone on the west line of said section seven.seventy seven poles and seventeen links from the South West corner of said section thence East to the bank of the Blue River thence north and Northeast up the bank of said River to the South East corner of land owned by the heirs of Hopkins Harris and thence North along the east line of said lands to the centre line of said section thence East to the east bank of the Blue River thence down the east bank to the ford below the Mills, thence North West to the West line of said section thence north to the place of beginning with all the water privileges thereon with the privileges of having a dam three feet and six inches high from the top of the water at a common stage of the water and the privilege to build into the east bank at the east end of the dam sufficient to secure the dam from floods with all the mills and machinery thereto belonging also part of section fifteen township and range aforesaid beginning at the same stone as the above mentioned land thence west twelve poles and thirteen links thence south one hundred and sixty feet thence east twelve poles and thirteen links thence North one hundred and sixty feet to the place of beginning of the same more or less with all the appurtenances there into belonging."
Transcribed by Larry Shaw
