George Barnes bought 847 Asylum Avenue

1. Henry K. Morgan and George D. Morgan were acting as trustees.
2. Horace Cornwall notarized the deed
3. George Burnham recorded the document in the land records and collected a fee of $9.

Right now, this is the earliest reference I have to 847 Asylum Avenue with a building on it.

The deed does not include a street address, but it includes a legal description of the property purchased.  From that, I can deduce as follows:

• the 1869 Baker & Tilden Atlas of Hartford City and County shows property owned by George Barnes and bounded by J. B. Burr, James Goodwin, and Trinity Episcopal Church right where 847 Asylum Avenue would be today. With the exception of James Goodwin, the neighboring properties all match the legal description.
• James Goodwin owned a lot of land in Hartford, and maybe at some point he owned the land to the south of 847 Asylum Avenue, but the legal description has the owner of the property to the south as the estate of Joseph Morgan.
• Henry K. Morgan and George D. Morgan acted as trustees for the estate of Joseph Morgan, and they along with the estate appear in the land records associated with 847 Asylum Avenue up to and including the sale of the property to Linus Plimpton.

George Barnes will sell the property to O. L. Hatch on January 5, 1876.

1. The legal description of 847 Asylum Avenue at this point in time was:

• North: 65’ +/- along Asylum Avenue
• East: ~210’ along land owned by J. B. Burr
• South: 75’ +/- along land owned by Joseph Morgan (deceased) and Trinity Episcopal Church
• West: 210’ +/- along land owned by Charles C. Strong

2. Horace Cornwall was a justice of the peace.
3. George J. Burnham was the Hartford Town Clerk.
4. Today, George Barnes would have paid $191,052.36 for this property.
5. The fee to record the deed would be $191.05 today, or 0.1% or the purchase price.

Hartford, CT, Land Records.  “Warranty Deed,” Hartford, CT land records, October 3, 1867 (v. ?, p. 700).