The first time I used these records I really did not know what I was doing and I incorrectly concluded\u00a0there were no land deeds for my wife’s Drollette or Desmarais ancestors in Clinton County, New York.<\/p>\n
I was wrong. When I used the grantee index to land records years ago, I assumed that the “D” portion of the grantee index had lumped all the surnames beginning with the letter “D” together. After all, that’s how other indexes to land records I used had been compiled. Why should this one be any different?<\/p>\n
It was. The surnames that began with a “D” were separated out into different sections of the “D” index, depending upon the second letter of the name. It I wanted to find the index entry for Drollette, I needed to be in this section of the “D” index–the one where the second letter of the name was a letter “p” through “z” in the alphabet. This is shown in the first image accompanying this post.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Clinton County New York, Grantee Index Volume 3, p 142; digital image, FamilySearch.<\/p><\/div>\n
And there on page 143 of the 3rd grantee index to deeds in Clinton County, New York, was an entry indicating Isiah Drullette [or some such variant spelling] had a deed recorded in 1860.<\/p>\n
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