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Fellows Family Land Records, Wexford County, Michigan Liber 97 page 98

March 19th, 2010 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)
This entry is part 62 of 99 in the series Deeds in the Family

I am posting information gleaned from land records in the areas where our family’s ancestors resided. You can read more about this project in the overview. You may also check my deed record listing, which I will update frequently, but probably not every day. This group pertain to Papa’s Fellows ancestors who resided in Wexford County, Michigan.

 

Date: 13 December 1919
Liber: 97
Page: 98
Location: Wexford County, MI
Grantor: Ross Fenton & Edna Fenton his wife of Colfax, Wexford, MI
Grantee: Charles E. inker & Belle Tinker of the same place
Witnesses: N.A. Reynolds & Linda K. Reynolds
Type of deed: Warranty
Rec’d and recording: 19 Dec 1919
Clerk/registrar: Slack
Location of land: Colfax
Consideration: $225.00
Notes: N.A. Reynolds was a 1st cousin once removed of Ross Fenton [1C1R]
Description: NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 Sect 17 T23N R10W

This is another little piece of the section 16 puzzle I am working my way through. When I started going through these deeds, I supposed that dividing they by family made the most sense. Now I see that the land was passed around between families. I should probably have divided it my location of land, ordered by the dates of the transactions.

I am going to keep plodding away, and one day it will all make sense. Why? Because I am making a new spreadsheet which I will be able to sort by section, description, grantor, grantee, or whatever else I think of between now and then. When that is done I will have the whole ball of was. [Do not hold your breath.] I also have a group of transactions for which I am going to clarify information when I make a trip up to Wexford County soon. All of this will hopefully provide a more complete picture of the land transactions and relationships of Papa’s Wexford County ancestors in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

In the meantime, from the Colfax township page of the old 1914 Atlas1 of Wexford County, here is a visual of the land in question.

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  1. Standard Map Company., Atlas of Wexford County, Michigan : containing complete maps of all townships, names of property owners, maps of the county, city of Cadillac, United States and State of Michigan., Standard Map Company., Cadillac Evening News (Firm) (Cadillac, Mich.: Cadillac Evening News, c1914), page 20, The University of Michigan. Michigan County Histories and Atlases. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/3928167.0001.001 : accessed 2 November 2009.

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Fenton Family Land Records, Wexford County, Michigan Liber 97 page 369

January 19th, 2010 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)
This entry is part 43 of 99 in the series Deeds in the Family

I am posting information gleaned from land records in the areas where our family’s ancestors resided. You can read more about this project in the overview. You may also check my deed record listing, which I will update frequently, but probably not every day. This group pertain to Papa’s Fenton ancestors who resided in Wexford County, Michigan.

Date: 4 Jan 1921
Liber: 97
Page: 369
Location: Wexford County, Michigan
Grantor: Frank Howe & Sarah C. Howe his wife, of Manton, Wexford, Michigan
Grantee: Harmon H. Longstreet and Susie M. Longstreet of Manton, Wexford, Michigan
Witnesses: N.A. Reynolds, Linda K. Reynolds
Type of deed: warranty
Rec’d and recording: 25 June 1821
Clerk/registrar: Johnson
Location of land: Manton, Michigan
Consideration: $250.00
Notes: Deed Restriction: Second Parties agree that said premises will not be used before April 14, 1929 for the business of General photography or maintaining a photograph gallery.
Description: Lot 26, Manton

Susie Burdick Fenton Longstreet’s niece, Etoile, was married to Charles B. “Bert” Howe. It is possible that the Frank Howe who sold this lot to Harmon and Susie was somehow related to that family, but I have no evidence that he was.

This lot is from the original town plat of Manton, I have illustrated the location on a section of the old 1889 atlas 1. You can click the thumbnail to view an enlarged version.

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It is possible to take a look at the current configuration of this area in Google maps. Depot Street has been re-named State Street since this atlas was printed, and what was known as Seaman Ave is now Michigan Avenue (old US 131). Keep in mind that lot 26 is the third lot north of the corner of Rose and State Street.


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E.L. Hayes & Co., Atlas of Wexford County, Michigan / compiled by Eli L. Hayes from government surveys, county and township records, and personal investigations and observations , Eli L. Hayes, (Chicago, Ill.: E.L. Hayes & Co., 1889), 21; digital images, The University of Michigan. Michigan County Histories and Atlases. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/3928170.0001.001 : accessed 7 January 2010.

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Burdick Family Land Records, Wexford County, Michigan Liber 80 page 440

November 29th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (1 Comments)
This entry is part 23 of 99 in the series Deeds in the Family

I am posting information gleaned from land records in the areas where our family’s ancestors resided. You can read more about this project in the overview. You may also check my deed record listing, which I will update with each post.

This is a deed transcription I found in my book, after I thought my “Burdick” deeds were completed. This one explains a little about the transaction recorded in liber 46, page 590. In that deed, Mary J. Burdick sold all but a strip on the north side of her property in Colfax Township. In this deed, that strip is sold, after her death.

Date: 9 May 1911
Liber: 80
Page: 440
Location: Wexford County, Michigan
Grantor: Susie M. Longstreet, Fink C. Burdick & Cora E. Burdick his wife of Colfax, Wexford, MI and Mable C. Jones of Lake County Michigan, Heirs of Mary J. Burdick, deceased.
Grantee: Ethel Lewis of Chicago, Illinois
Witnesses: N.A. Reynolds, A. T. Bennett
Type of deed: Warranty
Rec’d and recording: 24 May 1911
Clerk/registrar: Northrup
Location of land: Colfax, Wexford, Michigan
Consideration: $50
Notes: N. A. Reynolds was Mary’s nephew.
Description: A strip 4 rods wide off the north side of the SE 1/4 of the NE fractional 1/4 of Sec 4 T23N R10W, containing two acres more or less.

Mary Jane Burdick died on 8 May 1911. Although I do not know if the strip of land described here had a house on it, my guess is that it did not. The deed did not say, “and other valuable consideration”, a clue to a possible mortgage. It looks like it may have been two bare acres. According to the 1910 census of Colfax Township, Wexford County, Michigan, George and Mary Jane Burdick were living with her son Fink and his family. Although George Washington Burdick died a few years later, in 1914, he had signed his land to his wife before she died, and it seems that his other holdings had already been sold.

Things have changed a bit since this deed was executed. It would not be possible to legally sell a a land as an heir to an estate, if an estate had not yet been opened in probate court. I also wonder that George W. Burdick did not sign this deed as an heir to his wife’s estate.

  1. “1910 US Federal Census”, database, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 18 November 2009), entry for Fink C. Burdick, [b.] 1859/1860, Colfax, Wexford County, Michigan.

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Burdick Family Land Records, Wexford County, Michigan Liber 24 page 631

November 24th, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)
This entry is part 18 of 99 in the series Deeds in the Family

I am posting information gleaned from land records in the areas where our family’s ancestors resided. You can read more about this project in the overview. You may also check my deed record listing, which I will update with each post.

Date: 6 Sept 1893
Liber: 24
Page: 631
Location: Wexford Co MI
Grantor: Mary Jane Burdick of the Township of Colfax and county of Wexford, State of Michigan
Grantee: Hiram E. Brittain, Village of Manton, County & State aforesaid
Witnesses: N.A. Reynolds, Linda C. Reynolds
Type of deed: Quit Claim
Rec’d and recording: 9 Sept 1893
Clerk/registrar: Samuel J. Wall, registrar
Location of land: Greenwood, Wexford, MI
Consideration: $50.00
Notes:
Description: NW 1/4 of the NW 1/4 Sec 8 T24N R10W

Mary must have had some interest in this land, perhaps a tax deed. The $50 would not be enough to purchase the 40 acres, even at that time.

Back to the old Atlas1. This land is in the second tier of sections in Greenwood township, 8 miles or so from the Burdick residence on the Greenwood/Colfax township line. This map section does not show the land the Burdicks occupied, and the other map sections in the series do not show this land.

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  1. E.L. Hayes & Co., Atlas of Wexford County, Michigan / compiled by Eli L. Hayes from government surveys, county and township records, and personal investigations and observations (Chicago, Ill.: E.L. Hayes & Co., 1889), page 29; digital images, The University of Michigan. Michigan County Histories and Atlases. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/3928170.0001.001 : accessed 2 November 2009.

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Burdick Family Land Records, Wexford County, Michigan Liber 14 page 633

November 21st, 2009 | Posted by Granny Pam in Papa's Ancestors - (0 Comments)
This entry is part 15 of 99 in the series Deeds in the Family

I am posting information gleaned from land records in the areas where our family’s ancestors resided. You can read more about this project in the overview. You may also check my deed record listing, which I will update with each post.

Date: 4 Sept 1885
Liber: 14
Page: 633
Location: Wexford Co., MI
Grantor: George W. Burdick of Colfax, Wexford, MI
Grantee: Norman A. Reynolds of State and county aforesaid
Witnesses: Edward Cox, justice of peace; Milton Cox
Type of deed: Quit Claim
Rec’d and recording: 5 Sept 1885
Clerk/registrar: Geo A Cummer
Location of land: Greenwood, Wexford, Michigan
Consideration: $200
Notes: Norman A. Reynolds was a nephew of Mary Jane Abbott Burdick, George’s wife.
Description: NE 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Sec 33; an undivided half of N 1/2 of NE 1/4 Sec 22 all T24N R10W

Burdick purchased interest in the first piece of land in a tax sale on the deed I have previously described, which is recorded in Liber 13, page 184 of Wexford County, Michigan deeds. George Burdick and John Fenton purchased the second piece on a deed recorded in Liber 14, Page 617. George only sold 1/2 interest to N. A. Reynolds, since he only owned 1/2 interest. After this transaction, N. A. Reynolds and John Fenton shared interest in that piece.

Here is my doctored diagram based on pages from the old Atlas1, it is a thumbnail, click to enlarge.

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A little more about the relationship between Erasmus Abbott, N.A. Reynolds, George W. Burdick, and Mary Jane Abbott.

Orson Abbott and Nancy Hughson had a family of at least 5 children, of those, these have connections to these land records.

Phoebe, born about 1830-1835 married Norman Reynolds, N. A. Reynolds was their son. Mary Jane, born 1836, married George W. Burdick. Erasmus, born June 1838, married twice and lived for quite some time in Wexford County.

 

  1. E.L. Hayes & Co., Atlas of Wexford County, Michigan / compiled by Eli L. Hayes from government surveys, county and township records, and personal investigations and observations (Chicago, Ill.: E.L. Hayes & Co., 1889), page 29; digital images, The University of Michigan. Michigan County Histories and Atlases. http://name.umdl.umich.edu/3928170.0001.001 : accessed 2 November 2009.

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