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ROW #665 · THE MIDDLE ROSTER, ONE BY ONE
Henderson — about 23 parcels, the largest of the middle roster: a single-name addition at a size that, in a town of 1,388 parcels, is a neighbourhood entire. No founding date or subdivider in the parcel record; character, addition-era residential. Present state: about 23 parcels, alive. Settler: Recorder's plat books, Henderson sheet. Proudfit — about 17 parcels. A distinctive proprietor name carried on a mid-size addition; nothing in the record reached ties its Proudfit to any other Proudfit in the build, and none is made. Present state: about 17 parcels. Settler: Recorder's plat books, Proudfit sheet. Enger's — 14 parcels, exactly Thrall's count: a possessive proprietor's addition of the same working size as the founding addition, its twin in the roster and a useful measure of what a successful small addition looks like in this town — fourteen lots' worth of description, still alive. Settler: Recorder's plat books, Enger's sheet.
The Bancroft plats, 2nd and 3rd — about 8 parcels between them, and the one middle plat whose eponym the town's history can gloss without merging anyone: Bancroft is the mill family's name in this build (the Baugo mills' Bancrofts, Businesses and People legs), and the banked Neighborhoods leg prints this plat exactly at that strength — “the mill family's name in the plat record a century after the mill.” Whether the 2nd and 3rd were platted by mill Bancrofts, their heirs, or a later holder of the name is the Recorder's question; the sequence itself (a 2nd and a 3rd surviving, counted together at 8) implies a 1st the roster does not separately carry, stated here as an implication, not a count. Bennett's Osceola Place — 6 parcels: a small proprietor's place-plat, its name carrying the town's; the Bennett name also appears inside Nutlawn's record as a replat (Bennett's Replat of Nutlawn Place) — two Bennett plat events, printed as two, with no person merged between them. Settler for both: Recorder's plat books. Peck's Addition — carried in the second count in at least eleven parcel entries, its lot numbers running into the 30s and its descriptions carrying vacated Pierce Street frontage lot by lot (“& vac Pierce St N & adj,” again and again) — a plat whose street plan is partly a subtraction: a street vacated, its ground folded into the lots. The banked roster gathered Peck's into the survey count without a headline figure; this article restores it to named size on the count file's own entries. Settler: Recorder's plat books, Peck's sheet and the Pierce Street vacation record.
Sources:
- Neighborhoods leg and EXPAND-O5-NOTE §3 — Henderson, Proudfit, Enger's and Bancroft counts; the Bancroft gloss, at its printed strength.
- O-5 plats-count2 — the Peck's entries and Pierce Street language; the Nutlawn / Bennett's Replat entry.