Anthony Lemanski Death Certificate, son of Peter Lemanski & Magdalene Nowicki

Biographical sketch of Anthony Lemanski from 1904 “Plat book of Huron County, Michigan” on page 95.

Welenty Woiciechowski, of Huron County, Michigan, was the recipient of a U.S. Land Grant Patent, Certificate No. 32,900, containing Eighty Acres, specifically, the East Half of the North-West Quarter of Section Twenty-Three in Township Fifteen North, of Range Fourteen East, Paris Township, Huron County, Michigan.

The Land Grant Patent was approved and issued by President James Buchanan on October 10, 1859.

By 1890, “Anthony Lamanski” was listed as the owner of the East Half of the North-West Quarter of Section Twenty-Three in Paris Township, as indicated in the 1890 plat map atlas for Huron County, Michigan, plus “Joseph Lamanski” and “Theodore Lamanski” possessed additional adjacent lands totaling 80 more Acres.

In 1904, “Anthony Lemanski” was still shown as the owner of the East Half of the North-West Quarter of Section Twenty-Three in Paris Township, as indicated in the 1904 plat map atlas for Huron County, Michigan.

Land Grant Patent Certificate document identified and now located in the U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records. Accessible online.

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Title: 1890 “Atlas of Huron County, Michigan : containing maps of every township in the county, with village and city plats...from actual surveys and official records” on page 12.
Author: Randall, J. S.
Publication Info: Caro, Mich. : E.R. Cookingham & Co., 1890.

Title: 1904 “Plat book of Huron County, Michigan : also patron's business and general farmer's directory of Huron Co. Mich. with biographical sketches” on page 18.
Author: Foote, E. B. (Ernest B.)
Publication info: Philadelphia, Penn. : Imperial Publishing Co., 1904.

“In the month of September, 1864, a disastrous fire swept over the eastern part of Huron County, obliterating the village of Sand Beach (then the site of the county court house), destroying among other valuables, all the records in the clerk’s office, and a part of the records in the Register of Deeds office.”

Other disasters included great forest fires in 1871 and 1881, literally wiping out Bad Axe, the county seat. The county records were burned. (From the 1890 “Atlas of Huron County, Michigan” on pages 1 and 2.)

The 1890 “Atlas of Huron County, Michigan” served as a sort-of replacement for the destroyed county land ownership records.

Historic plat map atlases housed at the University of Michigan Library, Michigan County Histories and Atlases Collection. Accessible online.