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Tuesday, October 30, 2018

Brewers and Browers in the Fulton County, New York Deed Indexes

A search of the probate records for Fulton County, New York, as suggested in the October 28, 2018 post, came up empty. We now want to look for deeds (records of land transactions) that might provide some guidance or evidence on how the Brewers of Fulton County, New York and Wyandot County, Ohio are related. Fortunately, the land records for Fulton County have been digitized and placed online by the Family History Library (FamilySearch.org), and they can be accessed from home. We start by consulting the indexes.

The indexes for Fulton County are arranged by year and by grantors (those selling) and grantees (those buying). So, when looking for the Brewers of Fulton County we have six indexes to search through:

Within each index names are recorded alphabetically, but only by the first letter of the last name. But after that the system used is a bit convoluted. If you look at it long enough you will some sort of pattern or intention of the indexer, but the surest way to find all the Brewers is simply to go through the B pages one by one. And so here, for future reference (so I don't have to do this again) are links to those pages in which persons named Brewer or Brower appear.




The Bro's go on for a few more pages beyond page 71 of the Deed Index-grantees 1859-1880, so be certain to check those pages as well. As mentioned, I'm going through this tedious exercise so as to have easy and quick access to the specific pages I'm interested in. Since this is posted online, I (and you) can access them from anywhere with an internet connection. The earlier two sets of years, at first glance, appear to be more helpful for our research of the Brewers in Fulton County, and if you take a look at the index I'm sure you'll be able to spot some deeds that may have promise. This quest will continue.

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