Document 0016
Document Type: Landowner Records
Year: 1931
Origin: Beersheeba, Palestine
Government Stamp: No
Document 0016
Document Type: Landowner Records
Year: 1931
Origin: Beersheeba, Palestine
Government Stamp: No
This document evidences that Mahrous Bseiso owned a drinking-water well titled the “Mahrous Well” that was dug in 1931 and located on the western side of an unidentified bridge. Although the exact location of the well was not mentioned, because the document makes reference to the road to Hebron; when discussing another well, it can be inferred that Mahrous Bseiso’s well was located in or near the West Bank. This document not only evidence’s Mahrous’ Bseiso’s ownership of a drinking well in Palestine approximately 17 years prior to the Arab-Israeli War in 1948, but also evidences that there were several other documented Palestinian drinking-well owners during this time period as well, whose names have been listed alongside Bseiso’s.