Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, March, 1887 – February 1890 Blanche Kelso Bruce: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, 1891–93 C. H. J. Taylor: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, 1894–1896 Henry Plummer Cheatham: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, 1897–1901 John C. Dancy: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, 1901–1910 Henry Lincoln Johnson: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, 1910 John F. Costello: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, 1916 Arthur G. Froe: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, 1922 Jefferson S. Coage: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, 1930 William J. Thompkins: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, March 1934 – 1944 Marshall L. Shepard: Recorder of Deeds for the District of Columbia, 1944 – 1951 Elsewhere in the US Joseph Montgomery: Recorder of Deeds and Register of Wills, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 1785–94 Samuel P. Morrill: Register of Deeds for Franklin County, Maine, 1857–67 Hugh McLaughlin (politician), Register of Deeds for Kings County, New York, for three consecutive terms from 1861 Charles E. Townsend: Register of Deeds for Jackson County, Michigan, 1886–97 William S. Vare: Recorder of Deeds for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1902–12 Edward Boland: Register of Deeds for Hampden County, Massachusetts, 1941–52 Carol Moseley Braun: Recorder of Deeds for Cook County, Illinois, 1988–92 Jesse White: Recorder of Deeds for Cook County, Illinois, 1993–99 Ryan Costello: Recorder of Deeds for Chester County, Pennsylvania, 2008–11 Zach Payne: Recorder of Deeds for Clark County, Indiana, 2015–18 Spain Mariano Rajoy: Recorder of Deeds first for Padrón, then for Villafranca del Bierzo, and lately for Santa Pola, Spain; from 1979 until the present See also Cadastre Crown lands Land registration Property law Recorder (judge) Registry of Deeds (Massachusetts) Torrens title References External links Recording process: Illinois Mechanics Liens Landaccess Records Search for Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and South Carolina Directory: Recorders of Deeds by State National County Recorders Directory Recorders of Deeds by State & County Organizations: Property Records Industry Association (PRIA) Kansas Register of Deeds Association North Carolina Association of Registers of Deeds Wisconsin Register of Deeds Association Ohio Recorders' Association, OH Specific offices: Cook County, IL Columbus County, NC Guilford County, NC Hall County, NE Anderson County, TN (first with online document viewing, 3/24/97) Shelby County, TN Wilson County, TN Johnston County, NC (first electronic