Close Brothers & Company Land Contract #1224C for Stephen P. Barnes, Trego County, Kansas
- Close Brothers & Company Land Contract #1224C for Stephen P. Barnes, Trego County, Kansas
- This contract, for a piece of land in Trego County, Kansas, is between Samuel Haughton Graves of Close Brothers & Company for William Austin, Edward Ford North and Robert Edward Bateman of England, and Stephen P. Barnes of Adams County, Illinois. It is for the Southeast quarter of Section 9 Township 13 South, of Range 25 West of the Sixth principal meridian. This is in Trego County, Kansas. The contract involves 160 acres for the sum of $1040 and includes a detail of payment made between March 2, 1887, and paid in full March 1897. The Close Brothers & Company, composed of William Close, James Close, John Close, Frederick Close and S.H. Graves, organized in 1876 and located in Pipestone in 1883. They also operated under business names Western Land Company and the South Minnesota Land Company.
- 1887-03-02
- English
- 1224c
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