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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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List and abstract of four title deeds related to the manor of Trent and other lands in the county of Somerset, England
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of personal and business papers primarily related to the James De Barth Shorb family and their business ventures and estate settlements. There is also a substantial amount of material about Benjamin Davis Wilson and his business dealings in California. Topics covered in the collection include agriculture, land development in southern California, the history of the San Marino area, mining operations, water rights and irrigation, politics, society stories, and wills, court documents, and settlement papers related to the Shorb estate.
mssShorb1
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This volume contains deeds, tax assessment and some legal documents all related to land in San Gabriel, California (Los Angeles County) starting in 1876 and continuing to 1890. Also included is the Articles of Incorporation of the San Gabriel Valley Land and Water Company. Participants include: Isaias W. Hellman, Catherine Howard, John P. Sanborn and Wells, Van Dyke & Lee. Land in Pasadena (the San Pasqual Rancho) and Santa Anita Rancho are also discussed.
mssHM 72612
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Bound, handwritten title abstract, prepared by Judson, Gillette and Gibson of Los Angeles, containing documents, dating back to 1844. Included are original documents such as tax assessments, mortgages, a deed, certificates of title, and descriptions of the property known as the "Bell Block" or "Bell Estates" on the S.E. Corner of Los Angeles and Alisio Streets in the city of Los Angeles owned by Captain Alexander Bell.
mssHM 40693
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The documents include a deed and two guarantees of title to Heinrich Schmutz for land in the Rancho Cucamonga area of Southern California. They were drawn up in San Bernardino and San Joaquin County, California.
mssHM 75956-75958
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Deeds and title for land belonging to Robert Tweedy and Louis Phillips in Los Angeles. Includes a deed from Phillips to Tweedy (1871), a bond for deed from Tweedy to Sarah E. Tansley for land purchased from Phillips (1882), and a certificate of title to Tweedy describing the location of his land, including that purchased from Phillips (1883).
mssHM 75029-75031
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A collection of approximately 3000 items from 1770 to 1871, it consists of the personal and professional papers of John Arnold Rockwell, chiefly his incoming and outgoing correspondence. The papers document Rockwell's legal career; the development of the U.S. Court of Claims; politics; the Constitutional Union Party of 1860; land development, particularly in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan; transportation, including land grants in aid of canals and railroads such as the Illinois Central and the projected Pacific Railroads; mining; and banking. Correspondents include, among others, John William Allen, Reverdy Johnson, Charles William Rockwell, and Dixwell Lathrop, who was a member of the Rockwell Land Company and one of the founders of Rockwell Colony in La Salle, Illinois. Also included are a letter book, plats, Dixwell Lathrop's notebooks, newspaper clippings, and the 1857 legal brief in the case of the United States, appellants vs. Charles Fossatt, regarding the New Almaden Quicksilver Mines. The earliest portion of Rockwell's correspondence includes letters from his father Charles Rockwell and brother Charles William Rockwell who had moved to Savannah, Georgia in 1817 to run a shipping business. The post-1861 part of the collection consists mainly of the incoming correspondence of John A. Rockwell's youngest son Alfred Perkins Rockwell, a Yale graduate, mining engineer, Civil War veteran, and businessman. Also included is correspondence of the Perkins and Tisdale families, including Rockwell's father-in-law Joseph Perkins who died in 1832 and was a Revolutionary War soldier, a Major in the Connecticut militia, physician, and businessman; also, Simon Perkins, John Tisdale, Elkanah Tisdale, and others. This correspondence deals chiefly with the properties in Connecticut and the Western Reserve.
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