{"id":36399,"date":"2026-09-04T05:44:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=36399"},"modified":"2026-09-04T05:44:37","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:44:37","slug":"consideration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/consideration\/","title":{"rendered":"Consideration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Always look to see what the \u201cconsideration\u201d is on a land transaction. It\u2019s what is given up in order for the grantee to obtain the property. If there\u2019s not an amount of money listed, try and determine what the relationship was between the grantor and the grantee. Whenever property is transferred without cash being transferred, that\u2019s something the genealogist needs to look into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 1728 deed from Middlesex County, Massachusetts, below mentions that the grantor wants to show &#8220;my love unto and Care of Timothy Gibson now living with me &amp; hath done from a child&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ci3.googleusercontent.com\/meips\/ADKq_NYEHS8XRfcuDF6kFDKqi0RcY7Fwmq7ugwH9iecfwmrq2QPex5oaX77nRDoFj_PpjBLoV4VtXssgj4a-Wc4RbmnNuJq7jo1V33Kqszy04F8HqyjtYG02gGYHk_KNBRlNPqTTvYp8SxqzHBHUcSFLk6PGruc=s0-d-e1-ft#http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/holman-gibsondeed-1703.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always look to see what the \u201cconsideration\u201d is on a land transaction. It\u2019s what is given up in order for the grantee to obtain the property. If there\u2019s not an amount of money listed, try and determine what the relationship was between the grantor and the grantee. Whenever property is transferred without cash being transferred, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}