Daily AncestorGrantee
The grantee is the person who receives land or property in a deed; the person giving it is the grantor.
The grantee is the buyer or receiver in a deed. Grantee indexes list people who acquired land, which can show when a family first arrived in a county.
In federal land patents, the grantee is the person who received the land from the United States, the first private owner of that tract.
As seen in a recordDeed recorded in a county deed book, 1800s
This deed made between Jacob Ott, grantor, and Lewis Ott his son, grantee.
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Daily Ancestor. "Grantee." Dictionary of Old Record Words. https://dailyancestor.com/dictionary/legal-land/grantee. Last checked 2026-10-01.