$3.34

    Recd of _ _ ias Treadwell, the sum of Three 34/100 Dollars, Taxes, interest, & charges in full for the year 1838 on the E 1/2 SW Sec. 13 TLLR _ W

 

                        Chas Powell, Treas

                        Hillsdale County

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Jonesville June 9th 1842

(This was during the time when Jonesville was the county seat. Who _ _ is Treadwell is, I don’t know, nor is it clear why the date at the bottom doesn’t match the one at the top.)

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(TAX PAYMENTS - ALL ON SIMILAR FORMS)

Pittsford, Hillsdale County                [date]

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    Received of John L. Fountain sum of ______ Dollars and _______Cents, in full for the State, Town, County, School and Highway Taxes, for the year 18__, on the following described tracts of Land, to Wit: E 1/2 of SW 1/2

in Town 7 South, of Range 1 West

                J.P. Marsh

                Township Treasurer

 

Dec 11th 1844 - $2.43

Feby 4th 1850 - $5.25

Jan 13th 1851 - $5.67

December 25 1852 - $14.48

Jan 14th 1854 - $8.97

Jan 10 1867 - $32.20 for estate

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Dec. 27, 1853    Warranty Deed

(Sale of land from Arthur Patterson & his wife, Jane, of the township of Somerset to Garret Fisk.)

“ … the North East quarter of the South West Quarter and the North West quarter of the South East quarter of Section number Twenty six (26) of Township number Five (5) South of Range One (1) West containing Eighty Acres of Land more or Less”

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    Jerome H. Fountain

        Washington D.C.

Care of Captain Duclern  Mich Company.

        Berdan Sharp Shooters

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UNITED STATES EXPRESS CO.

        Hudson Mich Jan 8 1862

Received of J L Fountain

1 Box aid to contain Sundries valued at (?) Wt. 30#

Dollars, and marked HB Fountain. Co F. 4 reg

Mich Volts    Washington D.C.

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$80.00

    HudsonMay 1, 1865

John L. Fountain ___ to Al. Jones & Co

1 Set Grave stones

Eighty Dollars

May        ler

by cash fifty Dollars

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RecdHillsdale Sept - 25, 1865 - of Wm Keath Five 25/100 Dollars for adv John L. Fountain 

Set final act - J&B Rowlson

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Form G

 

Treasury Department

    Second Auditor’s Office

        Jan. 8, 1868

Enclosed you will receive a Certificate, No. 387700, for $100 =, payable to you as Mother of dec’d or to your order, by army Paymaster of the U.S. Army, being for pay due Jerome H. Fountain, a late priv in Captain ________ Company C, 1 Regiment USSS Vols, for services from the ____ day of _____ , 18 ____ , when ____ to the ____ day of ____ , 18___ , time of his ______ . and _____ Bounty allowed by Act July 28/66

                        Very respectfully,

                            Your obedient servant,

                            E.B. Lench

Marilla Fountain

    Cover to

    Geo W. Whitlock

        Hudson.

            Mich

transcribed by JoAnne Miller and Darin Sheffer