Owner : Catharine Bechtel

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Item Name	Deed	Image1 Image2 Image3
Other Owner(s)	Snider, Elias W. B. Snyder, Benjamin D.
Category	Documents
Year	Early: 1870 - Late: 1870
Description	Deed 3507 dated December 31, 1870 between Benjamin D. Snyder, Woolwich Township, Waterloo County, Merchant Miller: Catharine Snyder, his wife; and, Elias Snyder the younger of the Township of Waterloo, merchant miller. Benjamin D. Snyder sold 51 acres consisting of parts of Lots 7, 8, 9, 10, 36 and 37 German Company Tract, Woolwich Township, to Elias Snider for a sum of $18,000. The property is mill property and the deed talks about digging a race. The document was witnessed by J.A. Winkler, St. Jacobs.
Collection	Kitchener Public Library Contact : 85 Queen St. N. Kitchener 519-743-0271 x248 www.kpl.org
Accession No.	MC.7.1d
References	Marvin C. Smith in "St. Jacobs - It's Early History," Waterloo Historical Society, 56 (1968), 33-49, notes on page 33: On April 10, 1848 Jacob C. Snider bought a farm on the south side of the Conestogo River and in 1850 and 1851 built flour mill, sawmill, woolen mill, and dam. He sold out to his son Jacob on February 20, 1855. Other owners were H.F.J. Jackson 1856, George W. Eby 1857, and Jacob, Daniel, Peter and Martin Eby in 1860. Benjamin D. Snider became owner in 1863. He sold to E.W.B. Snider on December 31, 1870 and he operated it until 1917 when he sold to his son William Snider." Virgil Emerson Martin, The early history of Jakobstettel (St. Jacobs: V.E. Martin, 1979), pp. 63-71. See in particular the second paragraph of page 63 and the photographs on pages 66 to 69 of the Pioneer Roller Flouring Mill, the mill race and the dams. See also, page 100, Footnote 123: Abstract of Title for the Township of Woolwich, Vol. I, II. (Located in the Registry Office, Kitchener).
See other linked artifacts	Deed Deed 4690 dated August 18, 1875 between William Snider and Elias W.B. Snider for Parts of Lots 7, 8, 9, 10, 26 and 37 German Company Tract, Woolwich Township, Waterloo County, Ontario. Mortgage Mortgage 3559 dated December 31, 1870 between Elias Snider, the younger, and Elias Snider and Henry Snider, Executors for Jacob C. Snider, on parts of Lots 7, 8, 9 and 10, Woolwich Township, Ontario. Mortgage Mortgage 3558 dated December 31, 1870 between Elias Snyder, the younger, and Joel Good on Lots 7, 8, 9 and 10 German Company Tract, Woolwich Township, Ontario.

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