James Wescott deed, 1874.

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James Wescott deed, 1874.

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Deed from sellers Elias and Martha England to buyer James Wescott for land in Camden, N.J.

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Camden County Historical Society

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England, Elias

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England, Martha Winburn

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Wescott, James

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James Wescott was born around 1824 in Maine, later moving to Nevada, and then to the gold mines around Sacramento (Calif.). He moved to St. Paul (Minn.) in 1854, and then bought land a few miles south in Eagan Township (Dakota County), which he farmed. He married Mary E. Atkinson in 1857. During the Civil War, he served (1865) in Company I of the First Minnesota Regiment of Heavy Artillery. He was also Dakota County Treasurer (1858-1860) and an enumerator for the 1890 federal census. More inform...