Documentation from directories and conveyance transactions in the Tompkins County Clerks Online Service, confirming location of this property.
Summary
In the 1937 Compass System Rural Index, the entry for Foster D. English is "*English Foster 5SE Ithaca 68C". The map indicates a location at the northwest corner of the intersection of Snyder Hill Rd and Quarry Rd in the Town of Dryden. The current address for the residence at that location is 490 Snyder Hill Rd.
Deeds and maps referred to are all available from the online database service of the Tompkins County Clerk by clicking the link below, logging in as Guest, and searching by Instrument (Document) Number, for example: 003809-001
- [003809-001 DEED] dated 6/24/1968 recorded 7/22/1969 in the Tompkins County Clerks Online Service.
- Foster D. and Bertha E. English sold property at this location, including the house, to Stanley A. and Florence L. Prince. The deed states:
"It is the intention to describe and convey the 1.7-acre parcel as shown on a survey map prepared by R. L. MacDowell, Jr., I.S., dated June 18, 1968, entitled "Map of Survey Parcel of land to be Conveyed by Foster D. & Bertha E. English to Stanley A. & Florence L. Prince Town of Dryden Tompkins County', a copy of which 1s to be recorded herewith.
Being part of the same premises as were conveyed to Foster D. English and Bertha E. English by The Federal Land Bank of Springfield by deed dated October 1, 1941, and recorded in said Clerk's Office in Liber 262 of Deeds at page 239.
Documents referred to in the deed above are
- [BF031797-001 MAP] filed 7/22/1969
- [BF124668-001 DEED] dated 10/1/1941 and recorded 12/1/1941
Note: Florence Prince was the daughter of Foster D. and Bertha E. English. Parcels from the original farm had been sold to other people earlier.
The Tompkins County Department of Assessment indicates that 490 Snyder Hill Rd is the address for a residence with 2.7 stories in the Town of Dryden with Tax ID 68.-1-18.21 and built in 1879. The Deed History card at the Dept. of Assessment begins with ownership by Florence Prince.