Orrin Hart

HART COLTON

Posted By: Marilyn O'Connor (email)
Date: 5/6/2009 at 14:49:42

AFFIDAVIT:
Dated May 31, 1899
Filed, June 1, 1899
Recorded in H-Misc. page 317

"State of Iowa, Mitchell County, ss
George Colton, being first duly sworn according to law, States: that he is, and has been for over forth-five years last past-except from 1857 to 1864-when he lived in Missouri-a citizen and resident of Mitchell County, Iowa; that he was well and personally acquainted with Orrin Hart who entered from the Government of the United States, September 4th, 1854, the East half (E 1/2 ) of the Northeast quarter (NE 1/4) of Section Twenty-six (26), Township Ninety-eight (98), Range Seventeen (17), West of the 5th Principal Meridian, Mitchell County, Iowa; and was well and personally acquainted with Lemuel S. Hart and Nancy Hart-the parents of said Orrin Hart; that said Orrin Hart died in Osage, Mitchell County, Iowa, on or about October----1854, intestate, leaving no wife and no children, he never having been married-as far as known and believed by affiant. That he helped to bury said Orrin Hart. That said Orrin Hart left surviving him, as his sole and only heirs, hie father-Lemuel S. Hart (Sometimes called and calling himself "Lemuel S. and L. S. Hart, Sen")
and hie mother-Nancy Hart-to whom (Lemuel S. and Nancy Hart) the property of the said Orrin Hart descended under the law.
That, so far as known and believed by me, the said Orrin Hart left no debts and there was no administration had upon his estate."

"George Colton"
Subscribed in my presence by George Colton, and by him sworn to before me this 31st day of May, A.D. 1899.
"W. E. Owen, Notary Public of Iowa, in and for Mitchell County."