Hello Jim, Typing in almost ALL CAPITAL LETTERS amounts to SHOUTING at the readers of your message. Not to mention the fact that what you typed was DARNED HARD TO READ! Aside from all that, from what I was able to decipher, it sounds like a piece of land in the City of Monterey. If you could provide either the seller's name, or the buyer's name, I can look up the record at the Monterey County Recorder's Office on Monday. I'm going there anyway to get photocopies of the land transfer records for some of my ancestors, as well as find out if I can get a photocopy of the plat map for the City of Monterey for the period 1850-1874. Anita (4th generation Monterey County) james e. metcalfe wrote: > > I DON'T KNOW WHERE A PLOT MAP CAN BE ACCESSED TO LOCATE THE TOWNSHIP > REQUESTED. I HAVE BEEN INTERESTED IN LOCATING THE FOLLOWING PIECE OF > PROPERTY AS DESCRIBED IN THE DEED OF SALE: > WITNESSETH THAT THE SAID PARTY OF THE FIRST PART, FOR SAID > CONSIDERATION OF THE SUM OF TWO THOUSAN (2,000) DOLLARS GOLD COIN OF THE > uNITED sTATES OF aMERICA, TO HIM IN HAND PAID BY THE SAID PARTY OF THE > SECOND PART, THE RECEIPT WHEREOF IS HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGED HAS GRANTED AND > SOLD, CONVEYED AND CONFIRMED AND BY THESE PRESENTS DOES GRANT, BARGAIN > AND SELL, CONVEY AND CONFIRM UNTO THE SAID PARTY OF THE SECOND PART AND > TO HIS HEIRS AND ASSIGNS FOREVER ALL THOSE CERTAIN LOTS PIECES OR > PARCELS OF LAND SITUATE, LYING AND BEING IN THE COUNTY OF mONTEREY, > sTATE OF cALIFORNIA AND BOUNDED AND PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS, > TO WIT: GARDEN LOT SOUTH OF AND ADJOINING THE ABOVE LOT BEING SIX > HUNDRED YARDS SQUARE AND SUPPOSED TO BE GARDEN LOT NUMBER FIVE RANGE > NUMBER ONE AND SAID LOTS BEING THE SAMES PROMISES HERETOFORE CONVEYED BY > DAVID JACKS TO D.C.MARTIN BY DEED OF CONVEYANCE DATED OCTOBER 12TH 1862 > AND RECORDED IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF MONTEREY COUNTY IN BOOK E > OF CONVEYANCES AT PAGES 332 AND FOLLOWING, TOGETHER WITH ALL AND SINULAR > THE TENEMENTS HEREDITAMENTS AND APPURTENANCES THEREUNTO BELONGING OR IN > ANY WISE APPERTAINING, AND THE REVERSION AND REVERSIONS REMAINDER AND > REMAINDERS, RENTS ISSUES AND PROFITS THEREOF, TO HAVE AND TO HOLD ALL > AND SINGULAR, THE SAID PREMISES, TOGETHER WITH THE APPURTENANCES UNTO > THE SAID PARTY OF THE SECOND PART HIS HEIRS AND ASSIGNS HAS HEREUJNTO > SET HIS HAND AND SEAL THE DAY AND YEAR FIRST ABOVE WRITTEN... > > RECORDED AT REQUEST F. GOMEZ 10 MAY 1877 AT 22 MIN PAST 10AM. > > THANKS FOR ANY INFO. JIM