Guide to the Peter Courtney Indenture MSS.0363
Courtney, Peter
- Publication:
University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama
Box 870266
February 2008
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
- Creation:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2013-02-15T11:18-0600
- Language Usage:
English
- Description Rules:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Peter Courtney indenture
- Unit ID:
MSS.0363
- Repository:
University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
2.5 Linear feet (1 item, encapsulated; typescript copies)
- Dates:
1704 January 1
- Abstract:
Handwritten indenture document, dated 1 January 1704, by which Peter Courtney of Middlesex County, England, leased a property, "Eagle Hollow" or "Parks Suggs," to Samuel Rogers of Cornwall County, England.
- creator
Courtney , Peter
Scope and Contents note
The collection contains a handwritten indenture document, dated 1 January 1704, by which Peter Courtney of Middlesex County, England, leased a property, known as "Eagle Hollow" or "Parks Suggs," to Samuel Rogers of Cornwall County, England. Original and typescript.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Peter Courtney Indenture, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Usage Restrictions:
Conditions Governing Use note
None
- Access Restrictions:
Conditions Governing Access note
None
Biographical/Historical note
An indenture is a deed or mortgage document signed by two parties. Its name comes from the old practice in which such instruments used to have jagged edges because they (together with their copies) were torn in order to match them later for authentication.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
unknown
- Processing Information:
Processed by
unknown, 2008; updated by Martha Bace, 2013
Source(s)
Rogers, Samuel (local)
Business and Labor (localbroad)
Farming and Agriculture (localbroad)
Indentures (aat)
Document Box 3887