Manassa Yeck Land Records, Windsor Township, Eaton County, 
Michigan

Copyright (c) 2000 by Benjamin L. Kinsey. This copy 
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In the census, Mannassex is also spelled Manassa. On his tombstone, it just says M. Yeck.  On his marriage certificate he is Menasa and Manassa. The second spelling is with the German double s. On some of his children's birth records he is Manassah.

Manassa Yeck first appears, in records, in MI on 2/01/1868, when he purchases some land from George Morton or Martin in section 22, Eaton Co. MI. (Liber 39, Page 119)  Source is Eaton Co. MI Deed Index, 1853-1873, LDS Film #0965711, Vols. 2&3. Copy of transaction shows that Manassa paid $900.00 for 40 acres in section 22 of Windsor Tw'p., Eaton
Co., MI. Copies are held by Benjamin Kinsey.

In 1876, Manassa acquires a quit claim deed from a Jane Semer in Eaton Co. MI. (Liber 67, Page 45)  Source is Eaton Co. MI Deed Index, 1873-1888, LDS Film #0965712, Vols. 4&5. Copy of indenture shows that Manassa paid $50.00 for the quit claim deed for 40 acres in section 22, Windsor Tw'p., Eaton Co., MI. Copies are  held by Benjamin Kinsey.

In 1876, Manassa sells land to Julia Ann Parks in Eaton Co. MI. (Liber 64, Page 259) Source is Eaton Co. MI Deed Index, 1873-1888, LDS Film #0965712, Vols. 4&5. Copy of indenture shows that Manassa received $1900.00 for 40 acres in section 22 of  Windsor Tw'p., Eaton Co., MI. Copies are  held by Benjamin Kinsey.


Manassa and Laura had a farm in Diamondale MI and moved to TX for his health. They bought a 300 acre farm near Old  Alton TX. Laura sold the farm after Manassa died in 1905. (Source- Elmer Wesley Yeck, grandson of Manassa, Oct.