Early Land Transactions = Cool Documents

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1 Early Land Transactions = Cool Documents

2 REGISTER OF DEEDS CREATED IN 1837 BY STATE CONSTITUTION

3 Thousands of property disputes were tied up in the courts of New England

4 Land Ordinance of Jefferson /PLSS Rectangular System which forms the basis of what we use today. Metes and bounds / Britain Plats and Condos/PC Baselines and Meridian

5 Site of the first survey of public lands of the United States 9/30/ Ranges in Northeastern Ohio

6 Northwest Ordinance of 1787 Original 13 colonies ceded claims in the NW Territory to the newly formed federal gov t. The sale of public lands helped pay for the national debt. Had to wait for treaties with Native Americans

7 Michigan Survey of 1815 Baseline marker One of 2 baseline markers

8 Michigan Meridian starts at the mouth of the Auglaize River north of Toledo

9 Michigan s 2 Baselines 1815 Benjamin Hough surveyed the meridian and Alexander Holmes the baseline. Holmes didn t complete his work. Joe Fletcher was hired to complete the Holmes work Joseph Wampler corrected inaccurate work by Fletcher creating 2 baselines.

10 Progress of the Michigan Survey

11 In 1840 Newaygo Co. operated out of Kent County s Judicial District

12 A section of property from a township A description may read like this; The SW ¼ of the SW 1/4 of the SW1/4 of T 14 N, R 13 W, Section 9, Lincoln Township Newaygo County, Mi.

13 War of 1812 Land Patents Land patents that were granted in Newaygo County. These were granted to veterans and exercised by them or their heirs.

14 THE REGISTERS OFFICE DEALS WITH ALL DOCUMENTS RELATED TO REAL ESTATE INEXPENSIVE LEGAL MEANS TO PROTECT THE INTEREST OF OWNERS AND ENCUMBRANCES BY NOTIFYING CREDITORS, SUBSEQUENT PURCHASERS, AND OTHERS WITH AN ECONOMIC INTEREST IN REAL PROPERTY. WE RECORD Original DOCUMENTS ACCORDING TO STATE PRESCRIBED GUIDELINES.

15 Recording Requirements Massachusetts Bay Colony enacted the first recording statute in All of the other state statutes follow this model. Michigan Act 25 / 1836 Recording of Deeds/ Patents, etc. Michigan Act 103 / 1937 Current recording requirements Michigan Act 345 / 1990 Remonumentation fund Michigan Act 330 / 1993 Transfer Tax Michigan Act 123 / 2010 Electronic recording

16 DOCUMENTS, DOCUMENTS DOCUMENTS THE LIST HERE REPRESENTS A SMALL COMPOSITE OF WHAT WE HANDLE: WE SEE 450 DOC TYPES

17 OUR STAFF HANDLES: AROUND 1,000+ DOCUMENTS/MO WE RECORD BETWEEN PAGES/MO WE HANDLE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS IN FEES/DAY/MO/YR

18 USERS OF THE RECORDS TITLE SEARCHING COMPANIES BANKS/CREDIT UNIONS OIL AND GAS COMPANIES / LEASES MDEQ / FORESTRY / CMET / IRS GENEALOGISTS GENERALLY ANYONE INTERESTED IN THE HISTORY OF THEIR PROPERTY

19 INTO THE FUTURE AND BEYOND ALL OF THE RECORDS HAVE BEEN DIGITIZED WE ARE CURRENTLY INDEXING OUR OLD RECORDS TO CORRELATE WITH THE DIGITIZED VERSION WE HAVE ENTERED INTO E-RECORDING

20 The life of a new document Docs with a warrant clause go to Eq. & Tr. Treas. Rec d/recd Docs Equal Equal & Treas. Indexed Scanned Sent to Owner Compared

21 Parcel number assigned by Equalization County/twshp/sect/quarter/eq.#

22 Cool Docs Documents that have historical significance ( all are significant ) First deeds of each township Deeds for historical property (centennial farms, special places in our county, etc. ) Tracing your ancestors movements through property ownership Actually, they are all cool and priceless

23 The Registers LEFT TO RIGHT Ruby Baumunk Marlene Toogood Linda Landheer Dianna Weaver, Chief Deputy Stewart Sanders 2014-

24 Site of Stearns Mill This is the site of the oldest recorded document in Newaygo County. Liber 1, Page 1 was recorded on May 27, Stearns mill was located upriver from the confluence of the Little Muskegon and Big Muskegon Rivers.

25 John Brooks and Courthouse Square John Brooks set aside the Courthouse Square property which was put into a trust set up by John Ball of Grand Rapids in In 1867, the property was deeded out from the trust to the village of Newaygo so a County Courthouse could be built.

26 Newaygo County Courthouse Newaygo was the County Seat from 1867 until 1910 when White Cloud was chosen as the Seat of County Government.

27 1851 Newaygo County Notice that there were 2 townships. First recorded deed in Croton / 1840.

28 1869 Newaygo County As the county became more populated, more townships were formed.

29 1912 Newaygo County This is present day Newaygo Co. Notice the RR lines traversing the county.

30 White Cloud City Hall The White Cloud City Hall became the County Seat in 1910 with the County leasing the building for several years, then purchasing the building some years later.

31 The Current White Cloud Airport White Cloud deeded this piece of property to Newaygo County to be used as an air-port in Currently the City of White Cloud owns the facility.

32 Meridians and Baselines across the United States