Results for subject term "Hasbrook Family - 11 Paige Street <br />
11 Paige (originally 5 Paige on the pre-1937-8 numbering scheme) was bought in 1905 by Lloyd G. Hasbrook, an African American [504/505] for $850. The deed refers to the boundaries and reserves a right of way for access, ditch and sewer pipes. Tax records value the house at $550. The Hasbrook family joined local families on McClellan Street (the Goodwins, Mittie Hall Anderson) who was active in the newly formed AME Zion Church of Amherst. Their names appear in documents associated with the AME Zion Church in the Jones Library Special Collection.<br />
The executor of the will of Josiah Hasbrook [719/501] then sold the house to Josiah’s son Lloyd C. Hasbrook for $650. The house is listed in the 1916 as “now occupied by his Son Lloyd C. Hasbrook.” Josiah’s widow Jane A Hasbrook released to Lloyd her interest in the property (January 25, 1916) [710/502]. Ownership then passed to Florence H. Hasbrook (misspelled Hasbrouck in the Deed [1109/70]) who was Lloyd C.’s widow, and to Vernon C. Dubois, the widower of Ethel R. DuBois who was the daughter of Lloyd and Florence Hasbrook.<br />
Thus ownership had passed to Josiah Hasbrook’s widowed daughter-in-law and his deceased granddaughter’s husband, who together sold the property to John V. Strickland (from Princess Anne, Somerset County, MD) – who is listed as receiving an MAC BA in Poultry Science -- and his wife Dorothy on December 26, 1951, in a Deed witnessed and signed by their African American neighbors from 44 Beston Street, Erwin W. and Helen B[ias] Pettyjohn (see Historical Narrative for 44 Beston), subject to a mortgage from Florence Hasbrook [Hasbrouck] to the Northampton Co-operative Bank (November 10, 1949) [719/501]. (Administrator’s Deed [1125/107]). <br />
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