The Notebooks of Charles F. Mulks

Jonathan S. Thompson and Edward L. Porter to William Lesslie deed dated February 11, 1826 convey ½ of party wall of their yellow store corner of Owego and Aurora Streets consideration $75.00

William Lesslie to Heath and Cantine deed May 30, 1827 convey the brick building between Thompson and Porter and Bradley + Mulks on Aurora Street consideration $1,500

This building is now No. 5 South Aurora St. These two deeds taken together show that the building was built in 1826. The Bradley + Mulks building was built by William Lesslie about 1823. It was owned by James Mulks who kept a store in it when he died in 1833. It is now No. 7 S. Aurora Street.

Amos Hopkins to Richard Freer deed dated July 6, 1827. Conveys 30 acres on Great lot 96 of Dryden being part of the State Hundred of said lot, and bounded N by Cornelius Freer: on the S by land this day conveyed by David Hopkins to David Mulks.

Amos Hopkins to David Mulks deed July 6, 1827 conveys 50 acres of the above mentioned State Hundred bounded south by the Military line, East by the line of lots, N by the above mentioned Freer lot consideration $350#

The balance of the 100 acres was sold by Hopkins to Milo Heath and was a strip of 20 acres lying west of the two lots above. Hopkins' residence was at Rupert, Bennington, Vermont.

William McCalpin was an early surveyor of the lands over between Caroline Center and Speedsville in June 1796 as appears in a deed from one Boswell to Augustine Boyer dated in 1826 of which I saw the record in the Tompkins Clerks office.

The last will of old Henry Speed of Caroline is dated March 5, 1821 and he died within two years. He had four sons John James, Spencer, William and Joseph F. Speed. William died many years before his father. Joseph F. never lived in New York.

Peter McMullen Latimer died at his residence in Delavan Wisconsin on Sunday March 3, 1874 at 7 am. of typhoid pneumonia after an illness of ten days. He was born in Ulster County New York February 16, 1824; Married Ruth E Mulks April 30 1857. Removed to Darien Walworth County Wisconsin in May 1855.

Died at his home in Chesterfield Morgan County Ohio of Consumption May 30 1871 Franklin Mulks. He removed to Ohio in 1856. Married Susan Sprague about eight years before he died.