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The July 6, 1921, Administrator’s Deed

Only July 6, 1921, Edwin Reed completed an administrator’s deed to complete the transfer of property to Frank Salmons. It reiterated much of the information in the deed of sale, stating:

ADMINISTRATOR’S DEED
I. EDWIN REED, Administrator of the Estate of Nathan Harrison, also known as Nate Harrison, Nathan Harris, and Nate Harris, deceased, for and in consideration of Six Hundred Seven and 50/100 dollars ($607.50) do hereby grant to FRANK SALMONS, all that real property situated in the County of San Diego, California, bounded and described as follows;
Lots numbered 1 and 3 of Section 1 in Township 10 south of Range 1 west, of San Bernardino Meridian, in California, containing 45.55 acres, according to the official Plat of the survey of said land, returned to the Central Land Office by the Surveyor General.
This deed is made pursuant to an order of the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of San Diego, In the Matter of the Estate of Nathan Harrison also known as Nate Harrison, Nathan Harris, and Nate Harris, deceased, Probate No. 9268, it being an order confirming sale of real estate and directing conveyance to grantee herein, a certificate copy of which order was duly recorded in the office of the County Recorder of said County, July 5th, 1921, reference to which order is hereby made for further particulars.
WITNESS my hand and seal, this 6th day of July 1921.
Edwin Reed.
Administrator of the Estate of Nathan Harrison also known as Nate Harrison, Nathan Harris, and Nate Harris, deceased.
E.R.
7/6/21
50 cents
E.R.
7/6/21
50 cents
State of California,
County of San Diego,} SS
On this 6th day of July 1921 before me, Robert R. Hamilton, a Notary Public in and for said County and State, personally appeared Edwin Reed, known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed in the foregoing instrument as the administrator of the Estate of Nathan Harrison also known as Nate Harrison, Nathan Harris, and Nate Harris, deceased, and acknowledged to me that as such administrator be executed the same.

This document marked the end of Harrison’s immediate connection with the Palomar Mountain property. Since the sale of the property from the Nate Harrison Estate in July of 1921, the property has passed between seven different landowners, including the Kirbys (Figure 24).

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