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25 March 1859

Read, Sophia C., fl. 1859-1864

Manuscript document signed

Title: [Assignment of lease]

Documents the lease of some property in Baltimore from Sophia C. Read to Caroline W. Remington for the sum of $14,400. Describes the property in question. Daniel Myers signed as a witness.

GLC03545.24.18

February 13, 1861

Read, Sophia C., fl. 1859-1864

Manuscript document

Title: Lease from Sophia C. Read to William & Caroline W. Remington

Copy of a lease agreement for a property in Baltimore called Oak Grove for one year at a rate of $600 per year. Witnessed by William George Read.

GLC03545.24.27

20 May 1864

Read, Sophia C., fl. 1859-1864

Manuscript document

Title: Assignment of mortgage: Sophia C. Read to Benjamin C. Barroll

Copy of the mortgage agreement. As Read was living in Gravesend, England at the time, the document is signed by a public notary from England stating she appeared. Barroll assigned the mortgage to John G. Lantz on 4 June 1864. Samuel Spier signed as a witness. With United States inter revenue foreign exchange stamps and life insurance stamps.

GLC03545.24.01

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