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- 7 Apr 1953 (Creation)
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1 plan on Mylar: 53 x 70.5cm
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John Thomas Ransom was born on August 25, 1889, to parents Giles Sanders Ransom and Margaret Wilson at York, Ontario. He married Lottie Ruth Long on March 19, 1912, at York, Ontario. He was a Provincial Land Surveyor active in Hastings County from the 1940s-1960s. His son, Thomas S. Ransom was also a surveyor in the local area. John Ransom died on October 13, 1962.
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Received from Walter I. Watson, surveyor, of Belleville, Ontario, in 2012.
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A certified reproduction of the "Subdivision of Lands included in Deposited Plan No. T, and part [of] Lots #263, 264, 265, 266, 267, 268, 269 [and] part Reg. Plan 105, part Lot # 4, Concession 1, Township of Murray, County of Northumberland and part Lot # 5... Town of Trenton, Hastings County.” The area surveyed includes; north of King Street and including both sides of First Street, Second Street, Third Street, and the east side of Fourth Street. Surveyed by John T. Ransom, O. L. S. and signed April 7, 1953.
This copy was made in 1972 of plan #910, as registered in the Hastings Land Registry Office.
Donated by Walter I. Watson, P. L. S.
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