This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: McCartney Hamilton Pollard Miller McCulley Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zcB.2ACI/911.1.2 Message Board Post: [ The following documents track the multi-year disposition of the land of Nathaniel McCartney, Oregon Donation Land Claim #2167 near Scio, Ore., to Bushrod W. and Delphina Hamilton. I still haven't found a record on who purchased Nathaniel's "mill property." ] INDEX TO DEEDS -- DIRECT Linn Co., Oregon, Page 236 Linn Co. Courthouse, Albany, Ore. TWP 10S, R 1W 6 July 1858, Grantor - Abigail McCartney, Grantee - Delphina Hamilton, Vol. A Page 699, Deed, Sec. 29 and 32, Acres 160. Deed witnessed by John B McCartney and R.H. Pollard, Justice of the Peace. [ Abigail M (Parker) McCartney, the widow of Nathaniel McCartney, DLC 2167, sells about half of her late husband's land to Delphina R (Moody) and Bushrod W Hamilton. It appears she leased the other half of the land to them. After selling her land for $1200 and her husband's mill property for $600, Abigail and her children moved to Chico Twp., Butte, Calif., where they purchased 160 acres of land on what was known as the Aquos Noves Rancho or Hensley Grant. This accounts for Abigail reporting $1,800 in assets on the 1860 Census in Chico, Butte, Calif. Several years after Abigail's death in Chico Twp, Butte, Calif on 6 Mar 1864, her sons sold their remaining interest in Nathaniel's land to the Hamiltons, below. I don't know if John B McCartney was related to Nathaniel.] 6 July 1858, Grantor - Estate of Nathaniel McCartney by Administrator, Grantee Bushrod W. Hamilton, Vol. A, Page 692, Deed, Sec. 32, Acres 39. [ I don't yet have this page, so I don't know the price paid for these 39 acres.] 8 Mar 1872, Grantor - W.H. McCartney and wife, Grantee - B.W. Hamilton, Vol. K, Page 516, Deed, Sec. 29 and 32, Acres 328.92. Witnesses J.L. Miller, A.J. McCulley [ This was William Henry Harrison McCartney and his wife Sarah Jane (Partridge) McCartney. William was the eldest son of Nathaniel & Abigail McCartney. He returned to the Albany, Ore., area abt 1872 to complete the sale to B.W. Hamilton. William's son Charles Edwin McCartney was born 05 Oct 1873 while William was in Albany. William and Sarah received $225 for releasing their interest in the balance of Nathaniel McCartney's land. ] 28 Jun 1876, Grantors - Albert McCartney and John L McCartney and Thomas N. McCartney, Grantee - B.W. Hamilton, Vol. L, Page 547, Deed, Sec. 29 and 32, Acres 328.92. [ These are the brothers of William H McCartney - - Albert, John Lyman and Thomas Nathaniel McCartney. They remained in Butte Co., Calif., and received $720 in gold coin for releasing their interest in Nathaniel's land. All the brothers then went into the stock-raising business near Vina, Tehama, Calif. ]