Title, Abstract

Abstract of Title,
Lot 59 of Part of the L. Beaubien Farm

Abstract of Title prepared by the Abstract and Title Guaranty Company and the Burton Abstract and Title Company concerning "Lot 59 of Part of the L. Beaubien Farm." The lot dimensions are 53 feet x 100 feet and the property is located at the northeast corner of Jefferson Avenue and Beaubien Street. The document package consists of approximately 90 pages of typewritten text and printed forms which trace the chain of land ownership from Jean Baptiste Beaubien, a French subject, who took possession of the land in about 1745, to Antoine Beaubien who registered a claim at the Land Office in Detroit in 1807. The abstract continues to follow the chain of ownership to Lambert Beaubien and to various other persons in the 1800's. Details of several court cases involving the land ownership are also included in the abstract. It appears that the Wayburn Investment Company and Equitable Trust Company owned the land in the 1930's and the lot was sold to the City of Detroit in 1939 (possibly due to unpaid taxes). The pages are bound at the top with a green ribbon.