My parents obtained the deeds to their house… From 1789. This document is the same age as the US constitution!

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1. Your post really puts ‘The Sheriff of the World’ into perspective

   Pity it will be missed by most Yankee migrants !!

2. WE, THE ESTATE AGENTS DO SOLEMNLY DECREE

3. When my Dad was working in Boston, MA, he was invited for dinner at a colleague’s house. They were very proud of their “Century Home”, which apparently means it’s over a hundred years old.

   They asked my Dad where he lived, and eventually got out of him that his house was built before the USA became a country. There’s one cottage on the same green that’s in the Domesday Book therefore approaching at least 1000 years old, and the “New Houses”, as they’re called, have been there over 150 years.

   He then completely broke their spirit by mentioning that I had just bought a house in a street of Victorian terraces, so every house in the area (other than the ones that were destroyed in the War) was over 120 years old. They jumped on Google Street View and couldn’t believe it.

4. “America is a country where 100 years is a long time, and England is a country where 100 miles is a long way” -Genghis Khan

5. Does it give them the right to bear arms

6. That is extremely cool, and looks to be in pretty good condition. Is it the original?

7. Myself and my wife regularly have a chuckle over our visit to a “historic plantation” in the USA, which dated to the late 1940s!

8. That’s pretty cool, i have the text of ours somewhere, but not the original. It’s also pretty old, and requires us theoretically to get permission from local gentry for certain things, and bans the breeding or raising of hunting hounds and waterfowl. Makes me want to get a few ducks just to mess with the long-dead Earl’s wishes.

9. Woodhall manor? Nice house!

10. Liberté, Fraternité, Égalité!!