Scanned page 289 of Book 1
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Top strip — opening of acknowledgment

State of Georgia ) On this twenty fourth Chatham County ) day of February in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred & seventy six, before me John W. Dunnagle a Commissioner appointed by the Governor of the State of North Carolina, in and for the State of Georgia, personally ca[me] [the said Theodore L. Kinsey] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] the said deed

Middle strip — body of acknowledgment

being likewise produced and exhibited before me, the said Theodore L. Kinsey acknowledged the due execution there[of] by him as his act and deed for the u[ses] and purposes therein mentioned —

In Witness Whereof, I have here[unto] [set my hand and affixed my official seal]

Bottom strip — closing & signature

[the day and year first above written.] Chatham[,] and State of Georgia

John W. Dunnagle Commissioner of deeds for the State of North Carolina

AI Notes

Verso of the warranty deed printed and shown on page 290 (Theodore L. Kinsey to Susan M. FitzSimons, 24 February 1876). The page is broken into three discontinuous strips by the album mounting / fold; visible portions show a Georgia commissioner’s acknowledgment taken at Chatham County, GA, with the printed ‘STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA’ running vertically along the left edge bleeding through. A red wafer seal of the Commissioner of Deeds for the State of North Carolina appears at lower left. Hand-written cursive throughout; some words obscured by folds, page fade, and bleed-through from the printed deed form on the recto.

Red wafer seal at lower left: “Commissioner of Deeds [for] North Carolina”; printed text “STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA” runs vertically up the left margin (bleed-through from the recto deed form).