Deed Abstracts, Belmont County, Ohio

the long version

This volume consists of an index to deeds recorded officially between 1811 and 1817. However, the execution dates may occasionally fall outside that range. The information is given in the following general order: volume and page of the deed book on which the document appears, date of execution, grantor (and wife) and residence; grantee and residence; amount of consideration offered, land description, history of land, neighbors, if conveyed in fee simple, date by which payments should be completed if done in installments, amount of land involved; the way the grantor(s) signed the document; names of witnesses; name of interviewer (and his office) who conducted the acknowledgment interview (and date of interview if date of document and its approximate recording date are separated by a substantial period of time [a purely subjective evaluation on the compiler's part]); recording data. Some of these elements may be missing in some deeds.