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== What land records exist? == | |||
* Maps | |||
Deeds | |||
Land grants | |||
Surveys and processioning reports. | |||
Processioning verifies the boundaries of a tract by physically walking the borders and updating metes and bounds. Example: is the big pile of rocks still there? Has the creek changed its watercourse? Did the big red oak fall down? | |||
Estate files to apportion land among heirs | |||
Mortgages, where land is leased, bought and sold. | |||
Court records: disputes, failure to pay taxes, condemnations, petitions. | |||
Tax lists. Sometimes by payer, sometimes in order of property (contiguity). | |||
Homestead exemptions to be relieved of paying taxes. | |||
Dower land examinations, where a wife was questioned to be sure she didn’t object to selling land that would become her place to live after her husband died. | |||
== Chatham County Register of Deeds == | |||
Access to Chatham County land records is through [http://www.chathamncrod.org/II_main.asp this portal] maintained by the [[Register of Deeds]]. | Access to Chatham County land records is through [http://www.chathamncrod.org/II_main.asp this portal] maintained by the [[Register of Deeds]]. | ||
Revision as of 13:50, 29 July 2021
What land records exist?
- Maps
Deeds Land grants Surveys and processioning reports. Processioning verifies the boundaries of a tract by physically walking the borders and updating metes and bounds. Example: is the big pile of rocks still there? Has the creek changed its watercourse? Did the big red oak fall down? Estate files to apportion land among heirs Mortgages, where land is leased, bought and sold. Court records: disputes, failure to pay taxes, condemnations, petitions. Tax lists. Sometimes by payer, sometimes in order of property (contiguity). Homestead exemptions to be relieved of paying taxes. Dower land examinations, where a wife was questioned to be sure she didn’t object to selling land that would become her place to live after her husband died.
Chatham County Register of Deeds
Access to Chatham County land records is through this portal maintained by the Register of Deeds.
On the page is a download file that gives good directions on how to use the tool to search old records.
- Search old letter deeds by grantor or grantee first, find the reference to the Deed, then search the images of the deeds.
- Oldest deeds are Letter deeds.