This makes it nearly impossible to map out what a piece of property looked like, or where it might have been located. and runs thence south fifteen degrees east ten chains and sixty links, thence East twenty five chains, thence north twenty one degrees thirty minutes east thirty two Chains, thence north ten chains fifty links, thence west seventeen chains and fifty links to the Schoharie creek, thence along said creek to the place of beginning” “Beginning at a Willow tree near the Schoharie Creek marked on the east side with the Letters C.E.
Metes & Bounds ( Wikipedia) describes land based on landmarks on the property itself, like this: Most of our land research has been in areas settled after Western migration when the US Government laid out a grid system that is much easier to determine where land was. This is a collection of all of the NY Deed/Mortgage/Grantor/Grantee books including Schoharie, Albany and Delaware counties from the 1790’s onward. In advance of any Index, we went through every deed in Schoharie county from 1797 through 1845 (when we know our brick wall relatives moved to Wisconsin Territory) and found a gold mine of data.īut very quickly, we ran into the dreaded “Metes & Bounds” problem which we’d read about.
Our Ahab-like quest to build links between a group of Tradewell residents of upstate NY in the early 1800’s got a big boost with the discovery of a great new tool: DeedMapper ( Direct Line Software)Ībout two months ago we came across a call to help index exactly the set of records we’d hoped to find, as we tried to build past one of our largest brick walls: FamilySearch’s New York Land Records, 1630-1975 ( Link). Everything we discuss is our opinion alone, and we talk about it because we use it.) (Note: As always, we receive no financial benefit or consideration for any product or service we review/recommend/discuss here.
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