My citation’s not perfect, but that’s not the purpose of this post.
The 1856 deed for property in Boone County, Indiana, signed by Mary A. Slane was signed on 23 October of 1856 and recorded the next day. It apparently was not the original deed as it states the deed was made in place of one that was destroyed by the burning of the records of Boone County.
It was typical for a request to go out to have deeds brought back for re-recording if something happened to the record copies of deeds that were maintained at the local courthouse. Apparently in this case, the original deed (which would have gone to Sicks after the record copy was made by the clerk) was no longer extant as well and Slane had to execute another deed.
The real question is how May Slane came to own an undivided one-eighth interest in an undivided one-eighth interest in the property in question. The math does check out. A quartersection is 160 acres and a half of a quartersection is 80 acres, totalling 240 acres. 1/8 of 1/8 of that–or 1/64 of it–would be 3.75 acres.
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