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Tubman, who had purchased 25 acres in addition to the original seven, had deeded her property to the church when she fell behind on payments.

From Washington Post • Mar. 25, 2022

For two months in the summer of 1996, Farmer stayed in a country house that Wexner had deeded to Epstein four years earlier, according to property records.

From Washington Post • Oct. 5, 2019

Vicente and Domingo Peralta, meanwhile, had been left with only a few hundred of the roughly 9,400 acres their father had deeded each of them.

From Slate • Feb. 9, 2015

A Boston philanthropist had deeded to Hampton Institute a former plantation named Shellbanks Farm, which served as an agricultural laboratory for Negro and Indian students at the school.

From "Hidden Figures" by Margot Lee Shetterly

The whole nation, it seemed, stood before the walls, awaiting, with bated breath and dismal faces, the announcement that Yetive had deeded to Bolaroz the lands and lives of half of her subjects.

From Graustark by McCutcheon, George Barr