That is not all that uncommon. Some deeds were never recorded. Other times deeds were recorded when the grantee got around to it. People were different back then, now if you get a deed you better run to the courthouse to get it recorded because someone else may be trying to record a deed on the same property. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 5:29 PM Subject: [NJMON] Question about a deed. Hi- Can anyone tell me why a deed transferring property from a father to his daughters would be written in 1873, but not received and recorded by the clerks office until 1892? I have a case where Peter Parker does this with 2 daughters. The deed grants them undivided interest in the property but allows him to reside on the property until his death. Is it possible somehow that 1892 is when he died? Any ideas? Thanks- -Jeff ==== NJMONMOU Mailing List ==== FAM_TREE.LST not found. Create new genealogist? (Y/N) ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

Sometimes the failure to record a deed was deliberate: Consider the case of famed marine engine pioneer James P. Allaire: One of his daughters pestered him for a farm that she knew she would be getting in his will. He reluctantly gave in to her incessant nagging about it and gave her the deed to the property with explicit instructions not to record it until he said so. He was having financial difficulties and was trying to keep his creditors at bay, as they well knew him to be possessed of a fortune in real estate. If the deed were recorded, the creditors would notice and think he was beginning to put his property holdings out of his hands. Wouldn't you know it? Allaire's daughter went right ahead and almost immediately had the deed recorded. Sure enough, the creditors came a calling to papa who had to do a lot of sweet talking and placating to satisfy them that he was not giving away his property to abscond from his debts. It was a financial and personal headache for which he would never forgive his daughter. (which is why she only got a token sum of money in his will.) Scott D. Peters Research Director/Archivist Ocean County Historical Society 26 Hadley Ave., P.O. Box 2191 Toms River, NJ 08754-2191 (732) 341-1880 [email protected] [email protected] "Telling the Stories of Ocean County" Historically Speaking ALHFAM -FPIPN vice-chair for trivia, errata and miscellany [email protected] "The ordinary distinctions in society are often vague, and imply no just pre-eminence: rank and titles are adventitious things and instead of designating merit or virtue, are frequently the baubles of imbecility, or the sparkling decorations of meretricious pageantry" William Griffith, on behalf, and by order of the New-Jersey Society for promoting the gradual Abolition of Slavery, Twelfth Month (December) 20th, 1803 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donald Lutz" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [NJMON] Question about a deed. > That is not all that uncommon. Some deeds were never recorded. Other times > deeds were recorded when the grantee got around to it. People were > different back then, now if you get a deed you better run to the courthouse > to get it recorded because someone else may be trying to record a deed on > the same property. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 5:29 PM > Subject: [NJMON] Question about a deed. > > > Hi- Can anyone tell me why a deed transferring property from a father to > his daughters would be written in 1873, but not received and recorded by the > clerks office until 1892?