Manuscripts

Elijah Weeks indenture

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Description: This indenture is between Elijah Weeks, B. W. Croake and L. E. Meyer. It gives Weeks "the right and privilege...to dig, drill, bore for, develop, extract,...hold, own, sell and remove all oil and gas" from a section of land in Los Angeles (owned by Croake and Meyer). The document also contains an extension to the original agreement.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Production date: 1900, August 6.
Call number: mssHM 75989
Creator: Weeks, Elijah(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Sylvia Arden, Librarian, San Diego Historical Society, April 10, 1974.

Remembrances of the Pacific Electric Railway

Manuscripts

This binder contains an audio transcript of Alan K. Weeks' interview concerning his memories of the Pacific Electric Railway, copies of photographs of the Pacific Electric Railway taken by Alan K. Weeks, and the final edit of the transcript by the Pacific Electric Railway Historical Society. Weeks' friend Jack Finn did the oral interview.

mssHM 83135

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Indenture from Hinckley in Leicestershire

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The indenture is a "Surrender and Regrant." Thomas Rawlat of Hinckley (about 14 miles SW of Leicester) was granted property by Thomas Sainsome, Thomas Smith, Ralph Robinson, and Thomas Wrightman. This indenture cancels their previous agreement and re-grants a cottage in Hinckley to Rawlat by charter. Sir Edward Howard, Sir John Trevor, Thomas Trevor, William Jackson and Robert Bragg all the Lords of the Manor of Hinckley, as was Charles Howard, Earl of Nottingham. (All are identified in the indenture). The indenture was granted on March 24, 1604/5. It was witnessed by William Bacon, Richard Baber, Thomas Cowy, and Thomas Godfrye (the signatures are on the verso).

mssHM 82624

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Indenture from Buckinghamshire

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This indenture is for "divers Manors and Hereditaments being the Buckingham Estates" between Francis Barchard, William Woodgate, Richard, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, Richard 3rd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, and William Henry, Baron Leigh of Stoneleigh. This indenture was in extremely fragile condition, with significant loss of text; in 2003, the Huntington Conservation Department encapsulated each page in mylar so the pages cannot now be removed from the mylar sleeves.

mssHM 82870

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Indenture lease of a cottage

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Indenture between Bartholomew Tipping of Woolley in the county of Berkshire and Thomas Clarke of Woolstone in the county of Berkshire, which is now part of Oxfordshire for the lease of a cottage.

mssHM 80475

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Indenture from Spitalfields in Middlesex

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The indenture is a lease from William Woolfe to Daniel Hacker for two messuages and premises with gardens...; with signature and red wax seal, also signed, in pen, by F.W. Dau.

mssHM 82741

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Elijah White letter to Medorem Crawford

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Mr. White informs Mr. Crawford that the "Panama or Masset land route" is open and relatively safe, and speaks of other personal and family matters.

mssHM 31277

Elijah Weeks indenture

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