Text Materials of Central Florida
Description
This ledger records the plot information of the sale of land from Henry Shelton Sanford to residents of Sanford, Florida. The ledger also includes the plot information of the sale of land from the Florida Land and Colonization Company to residents of Sanford. Each page provides the name of the seller, the buyer, the date of contract (and in some cases, the deed), the amount of money transferred, and the individual plot information. The individual plots have been trancscribed into typescript, and every effort has been made to transcribe them true to print, except in the case of adding commas for readability, or in instances of illegibility. This ledger also includes a handwritten copy of the legal transferance of the land held by Henry S. Sanford to Edwyn Sandys Dawes, George Augustus Thomson, and Anthony Norris, trustees for the Florida Land and Colonization Company. Blank pages in the ledger were not scanned. These pages are: 436-499 inclusive, 502-549 inclusive, 555-569 inclusive, 574-581 inclusive, 584-599 inclusive, and page 616. See individual pages for complete plot information.
Subjects
Account books -- Florida -- Sanford
Date Issued
ca. 1871-1883
Number of Pages
616 p.
Size
21 cm. x 32 cm. x 5 cm.
Type
Deeds
Repository
Sanford Museum
Language
English
Coverage-Spatial
Sanford (Fla.)
Rights Statement
All rights to images are held by the respective holding institution. This image is posted publicly for non-profit educational uses, excluding printed publication. For permission to reproduce images and/or for copyright information contact the Sanford Museum, 520 East First Street, Sanford, FL 32772 (407-688-5198) http://www.sanfordfl.gov/index.html
Digital Publisher
Electronically reproduced by the Digital Services unit of the University of Central Florida Libraries, Orlando, 2011.
Digital Reproduction Specifications
Jpeg2000 images were derived from 400 dpi tiffs scanned on an Avision FB 6080E Book-edge Scanner.
Material Type
Document
Funding source
RICHES 2011
Recommended Citation
Unknown, "Account Book of General Henry Shelton Sanford of Florida Land & Colonization Company" (1871). Text Materials of Central Florida. 17.
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cfm-texts/17