yard sale find

[Carsman]

I went to a yard sale today, an old lady in a wheelchair was in her garage and ³⁄₄ of the garage was filled with old movie posters and books stuffed to the ceiling. All kinds of old stuff. She had boxes of old newspapers with deeds and letters all from 1780-1860 the box I bought for 20.00 looked old so I bought it and brought it home.
In the box was newspapers from Philadelphia, Boston area. I found one from 1792 with a few things George Washington had made speeches about. Some from the early 1800's selling slaves and trinkets from the far east.
In between was a pencil sketch book from 1825 with some really cool drawings by a guy named T.S. Wright 8 sketches in all. The letters written are hard to read as people wrote kinda slobby back then. There are hundreds of paper things in the box, fans from Paris from around 1850 and a few things from the 1960's a few toys and a couple little things that look like Cracker jack prizes.
I will try and Image some stuff later but I want to find out about this T.S. Wright guy.
I really wanted to look in the back of that garage though. She had a print dated 1650 that she wanted 150.00 for I might go back and get it if I get really ambitious.
Piles of deeds from the early 1800's all hand written. I'm liking this find.

Hey, you may wind up cashing in on (claiming) those deeds, and becoming a land baron. IT WORKED FOR THE INDIANS HERE IN NE! They claimed many thousands of acres from old hand written deeds. They were considered to be legal. So . . . maybe casinos are in your future!