Drew, C. W. - Historic Rock Island

Charles W. Drew

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Greffes de notaires, District judiciaire de Saint-François, CN501, S23 Charles Anderson Richardson.

Acte : # 6225
Date : 31 août 1857
Lease by John C. Butterfield, Carpenter and Joiner of the Township of Stanstead, to Louis Boulanger and Louis Maheux, Carpenters and Joiners of the same place.

Résumé : Location, pour un terme d’un an (à partir de la date de l’acte) et la somme de 110 dollars (en deux paiements semi-annuels égaux), d’un espace dans une fabrique de Rock Island (lot no 1 du 9e rang), décrit ainsi : «…the lower floor or rooms in the Old Carding building on Rock Island […], now owned by David White and which the said Lessor now holds in Common with one Charles W. Drew, together with the Room which the said Lessor heretofore occupied on the upper floor of said building, and also the use of the paint shop in the upper part of said building, and also all the machinery and apparatus belonging to the said Lessor and which he heretofore held in Common with the said Charles W. Drew, with the exception of a Bead Lathe, now in said building, with the first privilege of Water in the joiners shop […] ».

Greffes de notaires, District judiciaire de Saint-François, CN501, S23 Charles Anderson Richardson.

Acte : # 7797
Date : 30 avril 1862
Deed of Sale by Abijah Pinkham, Farmer of the Township of Stanstead, to Charles W. Drew, Cabinet Maker of the same place.

Résumé : Vente d’une partie du lot no 1 du 9e rang du Canton de Stanstead : « …being on the North side of the Canal leading to the Grist Mill formerly belonging to one Charles Kilborn deceased now owned by one Levi Spalding & opposite to the Carding Machine now owned by David White, extending forty feet in length up and down the said Canal by thirty feet in width, with ground adjoining sufficient to build a Coal house thereon with free ingress and egress at all times to and from the same to the highway, with the undivided half of the privilege of Erecting thereon a shop for a trip hammer, and to carry on all kinds of Blacksmith’s business and no other whatsoever with the one half of the use of all water to and for the said purposes in preference to all others (save and except the privilege formerly granted to one Mr. Warren) to be at proportionate part of one tenth part of the expense of building and keeping in repair all Mill dams and Canals above the said buildings […] now consisting of three buildings, one of which is used for a wheel Wright & Cabinet Shop, the second used as a Blacksmith Shop and the third as a Lumber House […] ». Le lot est vendu pour la somme de 400 dollars. [L’acte # 7798, assure le paiement de la vente : Drew y hypothèque le dit terrain]

Greffes de notaires, District judiciaire de Saint-François, CN501, S23 Charles Anderson Richardson.

Acte : # 7902
Date : 6 septembre 1862
Deed of Sale by Albert Gilmore, Saddler and Harness Maker of the Township of Stanstead, to Charles W. Drew, Cabinet Maker of the same place.

Résumé : Vente d’une partie du lot no 1 du 9e rang du Canton de Stanstead : « …commencing at a certain post at the South East corner of Willard Wood’s land thence extending Easterly along the Bye road leading from Stephen Foster’s dwelling house to the main road or highway the distance of sixty five feet, thence Northerly along the land now owned and occupied by John O’Rourke the distance of one hundred and sixteen feet to John Partlow’s land thence Westerly along said Partlow’s land, the distance of sixty five feet to the land owned by said Willard Wood thence along the Easterly line of said Wood’s land, Southerly the distance of one hundred and eight feet to the place of beginning […] ». Le lot est vendu pour la somme de 290 dollars. [Acte # 7903, Drew hypothèque le dit terrain au nom d’Austin T. Foster, duquel ledit Drew a emprunté une somme d’argent, probablement pour financer l’achat]