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Marbled front cover of notebook with leather spine.
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MSS. Ii80
Leathered spine of notebook.
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MSS. Ii80
V. 305
18/12/1908
Inside front cover.
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First page of notebook.
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Mortgage dated 1813 given by Phineas Bennett of Chenango County, New York to Benjamin Pelton of Preble Cortland County, New York for $4000#. Mortgage premises in town of Ithaca being 170 acres in a square off the north end of great lot 94 of Ulysses (now Ithaca) being 40 chains north and south and 40 chains east and west or across the whole north end of the lot bounded on the south by the lands of Simeon DeWitt. Mortgage assigned by Pelton the same month to George Wells. Wells foreclosed and the premises were sold at the public foreclosure sale at the Ithaca hotel January 11, 1817, Egbert Birdsall auctioneer. Bid off and purchased by David Woodcock for $3000. Note. This was the north end of the village of Ithaca and included Fall Creek and site of the mill and water privileges there. Benjamin Pelton was the pioneer on the north end of lot 94. He was a very meritorious officer in the Revolution.
