From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon Jul 24 16:27:59 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6OMRxjb021929; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:27:59 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k6OMRvMC015841 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:27:57 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k6OJnZFI018271 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:49:35 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k6OJnZVM018270 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:49:35 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k6OId9FI018091 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:39:09 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k6OLHK8b007976 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:17:20 -0600 X-Envelope-From: dean.scribner@juno.com Mon Jul 24 15:17:20 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k6OLHKjb007967 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:17:20 -0600 Received: from m09.lax.untd.com (m09.lax.untd.com [64.136.30.72]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k6OLGs8U018085 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 15:16:55 -0600 Received: from m09.lax.untd.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by m09.lax.untd.com with SMTP id AABCNLQEKABN9RRJ for (sender ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:15:53 -0700 (PDT) X-UNTD-OriginStamp: M+80QjSznsSmyHjF3ygxsczyK96hk59xCedlzTwH4EEqBbkzclfmjZJ8xkmxBWp4 Received: (from dean.scribner@juno.com) by m09.lax.untd.com (jqueuemail) id LV3VCNPP; Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:15:40 PDT To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 14:10:56 -0700 Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Territorial land Message-ID: <20060724.141410.164.3.dean.scribner@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 5.0.33 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 0,6-7,17-18 From: Dean Scribner X-ContentStamp: 6:3:746446300 X-MAIL-INFO: 1aa005698d202589392054cd90c1edf5cd91b06495b091 X-UNTD-Peer-Info: 127.0.0.1|localhost|m09.lax.untd.com|dean.scribner@juno.com X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Carol writes: >I have a great uncle who obviously owned land in the territory of Nebraska, but I can't find any deeds in his name. I do know he owed back taxes in 1865 (ten years after her arrived). Wouldn't he have to register his land even if he lived in the territory. This just doesn't make sense. The back taxes were in his name, but later on 1867-his wife sold land to his brother. He outlived his wife by several years?< There was no requirement that deeds be recorded, and many were not. And quite a few of those that were recorded, were recorded twenty or more years after they were written. The tax collector didn't care whether the deed was recorded, as long as he collected the tax on the land occupied. People recorded their deeds in the local registry in order to protect their financial interest in the property, but many people just never got around to it. You can bet it was the brother who recorded the deed from his brother's wife. Often, county boundaries changed between the date the deed was written and the date it was recorded, and the deed would be found in the registry of the county the land was in when it was recorded. Dean