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Title
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Prudhomme Family
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Description
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Photocopy of the map and abstract of the title to the Gabriel Prudhomme estate land, split up following Gabriel's death in 1831 and partly apportioned to John Johnson (between 3rd, 4th, Cherry, and Holmes Streets).
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Gabriel Prudhomme Estate
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Description
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A 16 page typescript (carbon copy) paper on the Gabriel Prudhomme estate, the parcel of land on the riverfront area in the 1820s "bec[oming] the Town of Kansas" following its owner's death in 1831. Description of the land's appraisal (and inheritance by Prudhomme's descendants) in 1831 by "Elliot Johnson, John Self and Lewis Roy [or Louis Roi]" and division in 1837 followed by platting and auctioning off in 1838 as the original Town of Kansas. Contains bibliographic sources on p. 14-16.
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Date
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1956
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Object Type
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Manuscript
