Land transactions always help put together the record of a community's history, and in the Hart story, we have a number of clues to help put that story together. We have copies of the Land Pre-emptions made by men such as Lawrence Gilbert (who married Emily Jackman, daughter of Philip Jackman Sr) and John Walter Berry, but it's the later land sales and purchases that add substance to those stories by adding names, dates and places. We have a growing database of those names, dates and places which one day in the not too distant future (depends on volunteer availability to find, sort and enter the data) will be fully searchable and available for all to use.
Land transactions always help put together the record of a...