Title research in Steele Creek, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina
If you've ever purchased real estate you may remember the deed: a legal document describing the property and declaring that the grantor, the old owner of the property, is giving it to the new owner, the grantee. The deed is then kept on file in the county seat. This leaves a chain of deeds on file going all the way back to whatever was the original grant for the property. In the original 13 colonies of the United States this chain goes all the way back to the original grants from the English monarch.