Part 4, Note 10

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Colorado County District Court Records, Civil Cause File No. 223: Friedrich A. Zimmerscheidt v. Charles Kessler, Final Record Book B, pp. 520-530, Minute Book A & B, pp. 157, 182, 202, 240; Colorado County Deed Records, Book B, pp. 364-371. Though he did not say so, Kessler had, on January 29, 1840, already sold the 500 acres he hoped to get from Zimmerscheidt to a man from Philadelphia (see Colorado County Deed Records, Book I, p. 158).