This is an original 1894 Quit-Claim Deed transferring land ownership from Mahlon P. Gorton to Ida H. Gorton in Portage County, Ohio. The document, dated January 16, 1894, records the conveyance for the sum of $150.00, transferring approximately 40 acres located in the east half of the southwest quarter of Section 32 in the township of Moor (likely a clerk’s shorthand for Moorland or Moorfield).
The deed was recorded on May 15, 1894, in Volume 106, Page 45 of Portage County Records by Chris Finkbeiner, Recorder, and entered for transfer by J. Wilson, Auditor. Witnesses include S. D. Reel and Fred Rice, with notarization by Esther Gorton, Notary Public, and Kimbley Wible, Clerk.
This elegant legal document features ornate period typography, handwritten signatures, and official seals, encapsulating late 19th-century Ohio land transfer procedures. A fine piece for collectors of historical real estate documents, genealogy researchers tracing the Gorton family, or those studying Midwestern land transactions of the 1890s.
