Provenance : Canton Villages Mission

Group Title : Property Records

Series Title : Deeds of Sale & Lease

Date(s) : 1905, 1908, 1915

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This file contains two agreements for purchase of land at Fong Chuen, Canton, and a deed of perpetual lease for land at Sha Luet, Fa District.

The purchase agreements relate to land purchased from Dr. Charles C. Selden of the American Presbyterian Mission, Canton for the use of the New Zealand Presbyterian Mission at Fong Chuen.  Documents signed by both parties incl. US Consul-General includes British and US consular service duty postage stamps (1905, 1908).

The deed of perpetual lease relates to land purchased at Sha Luet and includes document in Cantonese text, British Consular Stamp Duty, printed seals of provincial treasurer of Kwantung and Hua Hsien Magistrate and official British Consular English Translation (1915).
 

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