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Secord family fonds
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Fonds
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RC0622
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1821-1943 (Creation)
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9 cm of textual records
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([18--]-)
Biographical history
The Secord family settled in Barton township, county of Wentworth, Ontario. The Secord family was connected by marriage with the Powell and Miles families.
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The Secord fonds consists of mortgages, indentures, quit claims, tax notices, genealogical trees, wills, deeds of land, and other miscellaneous documents. Some of the documents concern the Powell and Miles families. There is a transcription of the will of Ambroise Sicard (i.e. Secord) dated 1701.
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Fonds was purchased by Sir Edwin Leather in memory of his father from D.E. Lake Ltd. on 17 October 1985 and then donated to McMaster University.
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RC0622
