Easttown Digital Archives
Yerkes & Paist tract
Note: in these deed histories distances are quoted in perches (p) of length 16.5 feet. Areas are quoted in acres (a) and square perches (p). There are 160 square perches to an acre. In a few cases roods (a quarter of an acre) are also used.
For the earlier deed history see Shardlow(east) tract
NE Corner of Easttown
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Area |
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Thomas & Mary McKean |
Alexander Boyd, James Murdock, James Blair |
6/6/1772 |
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No Chester County deed found. No McKean purchase deed found. |
Alexander Boyd, James Murdock, James Blair |
Joseph Gilbert |
7/6/1772 |
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No Chester County deed found |
Joseph Gilbert |
Ann Brown |
2/10/1779 |
109a |
£2200 |
Z-171 |
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Benjamin Brown |
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1796 |
109a |
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Log house; stone barn; County Tax Return for Easttown |
Thomas Brown, schoolmaster |
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1801 |
109a |
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Log house; stone and log barn; County Tax Return for Easttown |
Ann Brown |
Benjamin Brown, son |
1803 |
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Died |
Benjamin Brown |
John Havard Davis |
4/1/1814 |
109a |
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K3-76. Tredyffrin on 2 sides |
Sheriff (goods of John Havard Davis) |
Alexander Finley |
10/18/1819 |
93a 143p |
$2779 |
N4-69; messuage |
Sheriff (goods of John Havard Davis) |
Alexander Finley |
11/12/1819 |
96p |
$551 |
N4-70 |
Alexander E. Finley |
Hannah Lewis |
1841 |
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T4-294 |
Hannah Lewis of Easttown |
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1870(will proved) |
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Died; Will # 16282 |
Nathan Lewis et al |
John Yerkes & Phineas Paist |
9/15/1887 |
5a 12p |
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T6(141) - 184 |
Yerkes & Paist |
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1883 |
Area not stated |
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Breou’s Easttown atlas |
South of Railroad
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Area |
Cost |
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Charles Paist & John Yerkes |
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G8-314 |
Charles & Sarah Paist & John Yerkes |
Pennsylvania Railroad Company |
10/16/1876 |
3.841a |
$1,000 + other considerations |
U8-133 |
Pennsylvania Railroad Company |
Charles Paist & John Yerkes |
10/16/1876 |
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$1 |
V8-383; no description, to be enacgted when new railbed put into use. |