Abstract of title and certificate of search for… a subdivision of Block number 61 in the Mission Addition
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Title: Abstract of title and certificate of search for… a subdivision of Block number 61 in the Mission Addition
Dates: 1885
Collection Number: SFH 315
Creator/Collector:
Simpson & Millar (San Francisco, Calif.)
Extent: 1 volume
Repository:
San Francisco Public Library. San Francisco History Center
San Francisco, California 94102
Abstract: Title abstract for lot on south-west corner of 18th and Howard Streets, San Francisco
Language of Material: English
The collection is open for research.
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Abstract of title and certificate of search for… a subdivision of Block number 61 in the Mission Addition . San Francisco
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Biography/Administrative History
Thomas B. Simpson and John E. Millar were two clerks originally employed by Charles Van Megen Gillespie, who arrived in San
Francisco in 1848 and was a pioneering searcher of records. Simpson and Millar formed their own firm about 1883. Robert
G. Perkins was a pioneer of 1849, at one time a large property owner in the Mission district in San Francisco. Perkins and
his wife Elizabeth divorced late in 1860, and a court case relates to their property, Perkins v. Center 12 Pacific States
Reports 713 (1868). Edmund Green was born in Pennsylvania, came to California in 1849, managed mining companies in this state,
and settled in Oakland.
Scope and Content of Collection
This abstract of title was begun for Edmund Green by C. V. Gillespie, Examiner of Deeds, and includes 405 pages. The earliest
instrument is the Robert G. Perkins pre-emption notice dated February 23, 1854; the abstract is continued by Simpson and Millar
on pages 391-405, and the latest instrument is a tabulation of Taxes, assessed to Edmund Green, dated September 7, 1885.
A map is found on page 3.
Real property—California—San Francisco
Land titles—California—San Francisco
Abstracts of title—California—San Francisco—19th century
Land tenure—California—San Francisco
Land grants—California—San Francisco
Perkins, Robert G., d. 1886
Green, Edmund, d. 1899
Gillespie, C. V., d. 1889
San Francisco (Calif.) –History—19th century.
San Francisco (Calif.)—History—Sources.
Mission District (San Francisco, Calif.)—History.