Cumberland County Deed Books online
I can hardly believe it, but it seems the Cumberland County Deed Books are online at Family Search! You need to create an account to access them, but the account is free. So if you have a Deed Book and page number, e.g Deed Book D, p. 315, you should be able to find the original online. The index is more cumbersome to use than the easy search at the Land Registry office, but is still workable. The indexes are organized by year intervals and by grantor (the person selling the land or mortgaging a property) and by grantee. Wow, this is a game-changer for people who don't live in Nova Scotia. Happy searching!
Cumberland County Deed Books online
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Since, January, I have posted downloadable "deed trail" studies for 19 properties that lay along or near the Gmelin Line. These properties were located in Fenwick and Upper Nappan. Each of these properties changed hands many times. To make it easier to discover the names of possible ancestors who owned and/or lived on these properties, I have made a downloadable alphabetical index. Once you have located your ancestor, you can search for the corresponding downloadable deed study in previous blog posts dating back to January. Or you can view the entire collection in a DropBox Folder online here.
In 1823, Jeremiah Casey Sr. purchased 6 seventh-shares of 100-acre Lot 25 from James Shannon Morse, Hugh Logan, Amos Fowler, and Nathaniel Bliss. In 1839, Jeremiah gifted his son Daniel a half-share, the eastern side of the lot. Daniel mortgaged the property to his father-in-law James O'Brien, who later sold the property back to his widowed daughter Bridget Casey and his grandsons Amos and Thomas Casey. Bridget occupied the 12 acres north of Nappan Road, which later became the property of Renie Noiles and the Coates children. Amos and Thomas later sold the portion of the lot south of Nappan Road to James R. Lamy. In 1848, Jeremiah Casey Sr. divided the western half of the lot between his children Francis, Owen, and Nathaniel. Eventually Nathaniel owned all of the property, which he mortgaged to John D. Kinnear. Kinnear sold the northern 13 acres to George Gould but discharged the remainder of the mortgage. George Gould later sold his lot to Peter Gould. The remainder of the property south of Nappan Road was sold to Robert C. Noiles who, by then, owned the southern portion of Lot 14. That property was later purchased by Robert Bacon.
Amherst Township 100-acre lot 14 lay immediately east of the original Keiver homestead which occupied lots 15, 16, and 17. Lot 25 owned by Jeremiah Casey lay immediately to the east. Lot 14 lay south of the Denson Line which stretched from Cobequid Road to the Ox Bend of the Nappan River. The southern border of Lot 14 was formed by Amherst Township Lot 1, covered in previous posts about the homesteads of David Keiver and Samuel Embree on Lot 1. The Lime Stone Quarry on the east branch of Lime Kiln Brook was also located on Lot 14. Owners of Lot 14 included Patrick Porter, John Stuart, Charles Stuart, Edward Noiles Sr., his sons Josiah, George, Albert, and Robert C. Noiles, grandson James Wilson, Robert's son Frederick Noiles and his estranged wife Jane Gould, and various members of the Bacon family plus owners of the Lime Stone Quarry. The boundary between Lots 14 and 25 was obscured when Robert C. Noiles acquired a portion of the adjoining Lot 25 from Nathaniel Casey.
The 300-acre Amherst Township Lot 1 was originally drawn by David Downy and sold to John Stuart Sr. who sold the lot to Samuel Embree. This lot lay east of the extreme gore of the Samuel McCully Grant. David Keiver had purchased the northwestern portion and Samuel Embree's 65 acres made up the northeastern portion. This lot lay south of the east branch of Lime Kiln Brook. The lot was later sold to Francis Caleb Smith Jr. and passed to his son Floyd. The eastern boundary of the lot was a part of Lime Kiln Brook at an old French road leading to a sugar wood. The western boundary was near the limestone quarry on Lime Kiln Brook.
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