Ohio Deeds

Here are some deeds which record the transfer of property to or from our ancestors in Miami county, Ohio. Click on the rightmost column to see a transcription of the deed which was done by ourselves or by one of our researcher cousins. Kelly Conrad has been especially helpful in locating and deciphering many of these very old documents on microfilm.

Year	Book/Page	From	To	Township	Section/Township/Range
1812	02 084	U. S. A.	David Clark	Staunton	14 01 11
1813	02 035	David Clark	Lewis Winans	Staunton	14 01 11
1825	05 384	David Clark	George Cary	Staunton	14 01 11
1826	05 586	David Clark	Benjamin Cary	Staunton	04 01 11
1827	06 269	Thomas Cary	David Cary	Staunton	14 01 11
1827	06 280	Zephaniah B. Tenery	Benjamin Cary	Concord	[Troy lot]
1827	06 472	David Carey	Thomas Carey	Spring Creek	02 01 12
1830	08 209	John Carey	Thomas Watkins	Monroe	23 04 06 ¹
1831	09 023	Jonathan Rollins	Joseph Layton	Staunton	02 01 11
1849	25 227	David Carey	Michael Miller	Staunton	14 01 11
1850	27 007	J. Augustus Root	John Perry	Washington	[Piqua lot]
1850	27 492	George Carey	Michael Miller	Staunton	14 01 11
1858	35 253	Elizabeth Webber	Michael Miller	Staunton	14 01 11

In these transcriptions, we've highlighted in bold type the names of people or places of interest, and added punctuation and line breaks to make the documents more readable. These documents should be considered under construction for a while as work goes on reformatting them and identifying the people mentioned, and the significance of the transactions occurring when and where they did.

Kelly prepared the following chart to illustrate the transactions by which the same tract in Section 14 Township 01 Range 11 was transferred between various family members. To see a transaction, if it is available, please click on the box describing it:

Another of Kelly's charts shows the exact locations within Section 14 of the various tracts which were transferred. (You must have Adobe Reader installed on your computer to view this chart.)

In addition to locating the deeds which document our ancestors' land holdings and preparing these helpful charts, Kelly has also written a lengthy article discussing the survey system used "between the Miamis" and comparing it to other early systems. Don't miss it!

¹ This property is located in the area west of the Great Miami River, in the "Congress Lands", where a different survey system was used. All other properties for which S/T/R coordinates are given lie in the "Between the Miamis" survey zone. Even though the terminology of sections, townships and ranges is used in the surveying systems employed in both areas, there are differences in the way the nomenclature is applied. For an example of a county which used the system prevailing in much of the United States west of the Great Miami, please visit the page I helped assemble for the Lawrence county, Indiana, GenWeb site.

This page was last updated 25 May 2008.