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449.  Evening of Sun June 3, downtown Elmira, NY, near Clemens Square, looking NE toward the magnificent City Hall building in the distance, over empty lots, vacant streets, run-down buildings, and piles of rubble.

450.  Downtown Elmira near Water St. & Hwy 14.

451.  Chemung County Courthouse, Lake & East Market Streets.

452.  Chemung County Courthouse.

453.  Southern sections of the courthouse building.

454.  Public memorial to Chemung County's fallen in the US Revolutionary War.

455.  City Hall and Police Station, Lake & Church Streets, Elmira.

456.  City Hall.

457.  Detail of ornamentation and clock, City Hall.

458.  Near downtown Elmira, on Lake St. heading north.

459.  Lake St. near downtown.

460.  Must be 413 Lake Street.  Such dilapidation is ubiquitous.  Elmira, like most of southern New York, is really hurting.

Chemung County Land Records:  Kinsmans, 1835-1880s

461.  Tioga Deeds, 1835, Book 11, p. 450.  George Kinsman buys a parcel of land for $700 from W. Bennit & Polly his wife -- lot no. 3 in the subdivision of great lot numbers 109, 100, 113, Southport, Tioga County, NY, comprising 78 acres, two roads, twenty [porches?  perches?].  George Kinsman's first acquisition of land in the area.  (Mon June 4)

462.  April 11, 1845.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 11, p. 323.  George Kinsman buys 22 acres for $300.

463.  March 31, 1846.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 12, p. 185. 

464.  January 19, 1858.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 36, p. 281.   George & Mary Kinsman, Ryland Kinsman  (cont. below).

465.  January 19, 1858.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 36, p. 282.  George & Mary Kinsman, Ryland Kinsman (recorded Dec. 8, 1862 -- nearly five years later; continued from above).

466.  May 5, 1853.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 52, p. 236.  Hiram Roushey & Wife to George Kinsman  (cont. below).

467.  May 5, 1853.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 52, p. 237  (continued from above).

468.  February 19, 1867.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 66, p. 254.

469.  April 1, 1876.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 66, p. 255.  George & Mary Kinsman purchase 1 acre for $200 from Daniel M. Metzger. 

470.  October 25, 1876.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 69, p. 377.  George & Mary Kinsman sell 78 acres for $1 to Asa E. Kinsman of Burr Oak MI; Julia Whitney of Buffalo NY; Salome Wilcox wife of Nathan Wilcox of Flint MI; Sheldon Kinsman of Burr Oak MI; and Merritt Kinsman of Ashland NY  (cont. below).

471.  October 25, 1876.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 69, p. 377 (detail of no. 470 above).

472.  October 25, 1876.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 69, p. 378  (cont. from above).

473.  October 25, 1876.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 69, p. 379  (conclusion of above).

474.  May 10, 1882.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 77, p. 429.  Sheldon Kinsman and his wife Margaret of Noble Township, Branch County MI purchase for $500 the portion of the estate of George Kinsman (deceased) from Asa E. Kinsman of Burr Oak Township, St. Joseph Co MI.

475.  January 6, 1883.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 78, p. 100.  Judgment on lawsuit brought by Amaziah Tobey, Plaintiff, against Asa E. Kinsman, Sarah Kinsman, Julia Whitney, Salome Wilcox, Sheldon Kinsman, Mary Kinsman, and William Hungerford, Defendants.  Court referee Archie E. Baxter rules that the 78 acres in question be delivered to Plaintiff for the sum of $2,630.  (cont. below)

476.  January 6, 1883.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 78, p. 101.  (cont. from above)

477.  October 26, 1876.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 74, p. 549.  George & Mary Kinsman sell to Ryland Kinsman ten acres for $1 (one dollar).

478.  May 19, 1879.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 68, p. 602  (cont. below)

479.  May 19, 1979.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 68, p. 603  (cont. from above).

480.  June 16, 1853.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 22, p. 566.

481.  July 30, 1853.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 23, p. 263.

482.  November 12, 1856.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 28, p. 485  (cont. below). 

483.  November 12, 1856.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 28, p. 486  (cont. from above).

484.  November 6, 1854.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 34, p. 5  (cont. below). 

485.  November 6, 1854.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 34, p. 6  (cont. from above).

486.  November 2, 1891.  Chemung County Deeds, Book 98, p. 238. 

486a.  On the genealogy of Ryland Kinsman, from the vertical files of Steele Public Library, Elmira NY.

486b.  On the genealogy of Ryland Kinsman, from the vertical files of Steele Public Library, Elmira NY.