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Document Number:0609007
Title:Mortgage
Date:28 July 1877
For Sale:�53.00
Condition:
Very good
Description:
Parchment : 1 sheet 61cm x 75cm with 2 wax seals, 2 signatures and revenue stamp. A second Indenture of 1891 is written on the back.
Summary of contents:
PARTIES
Christopher BLACKETT of Copley Bent, Township of Lynesack and Softley, County Durham. Grocer and Draper.
Elizabeth DRURY of Staindrop, County Durham. Spinster.

SUBJECT
Christopher Blackett is mortgaging property in 'Cockfield, Durham to Elizabeth Drury for �300. It consists of 6 houses with gardens bounded on the South and West by the Town Street of Cockfield.,

The second Indenture of 1891 records that the mortgage has been repaid and the property was then reconveyed to Christopher Blackett.

There is also a memorandum of 1890 recording that one of the 6 houses was then sold off to Mrs Elizabeth Liddle.
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