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 Receipt for Margaret Turk's Interest in the Crab Orchard Tract

  • » Date: 1826-09-29
  • » Subject: Receipt for Margaret Turk's Interest in the Crab Orchard Tract
  • » Written By: Thomas Turk III
  • » Addressed To: Major James Turk Gleaves Sr
  • » Transcriber: Dennis Glaves
  • » File # 831

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Received of James T. Gleaves twenty five Pounds which he was to pay me as my part for the crab orchard land(.) given under my hand this 29th day of September 1826

Thos Turk (Seal)

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Turks Receit
to Gleaves
for $83.38 ½

I paid Sixty
Dollars to
Turk Jer his
Claim to the
Crab orchard 

Transcriber Notes

William Gleaves died in 1820. His will (Letter #461) bequeaths virtually all of his land to his youngest son, James Turk Gleaves. The specific instructions regarding the Crab Orchard tract required James to compensate his sisters: Elizabeth Ramsey, Margaret Turk, Esther Finley, Sally Allen and Nancy Gleaves, twenty five Pounds each for their interest in this land

This document reflects one of these payments to Margaret's husband, Thomas Turk III. It is unclear as to the meaning of the numbers that appear at bottom. It is possible that they were added later as James kept track of the division of his father's estate.

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