Record of sale, 1826

We have been working on learning the history behind our house for some time now, so I decided to take a trip to the Delaware County Archives.  The archives building is only 1/4 mild down the road, and they allow open access to all historic tax records, wills, hospital info and court cases.

A quick search on the Delco Archives site pulled up Thomas Riley's will and his notice of death.  We also found a record of death and assessment from Mark W. Baker (second owner of our house 1872-1905).  The assessment included a complete list of all of the contents of the house and where they were situated.  With this document you can take a virtual tour through our house in 1905!.

I then drove over to the Delco recorder of deeds and came up with the record of Thomas Riley's land purchase (prior to building our house).

Here is a scan of the deed for our property from 1826, when Thomas Riley purchased 8 acres from Thomas Clark.  The document includes the name of the owner prior to Clark, so I have another trip to the Delco recorder of deeds to make!

I have a bunch more historic documents that I'll scan and post sooner or later.