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Ancestry.com - Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants $

Original source: Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1998. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907 $

Original source: United States. Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records. Automated Records Project; Federal Land Patents, State Volumes. http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/. Springfield, Virginia: Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States, 2007. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - U.S. War Bounty Land Warrants, 1789-1858 $

Original source: U.S. Revolutionary War Bounty Land Warrants Used in the U.S. Military District of Ohio and Relating Papers (Acts of 1788, 1803, and 1806), 1788-1806; Microfilm Publication M829, 16 rolls; ARC ID: 635444. Records of the Bureau of Land Management, Record Group 49; National Archives at Washington, D.C.; War of 1812 Military Bounty Land Warrants, 1815-1858; Microfilm Publication M848, 14 rolls; ARC ID: 4923870. Records of the Bureau of Land Management, Record Group 49; National Archives at Washington, D.C. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - U.S., Historic Land Ownership and Reference Atlases, 1507-2000 $

Original source: Historic Map Works LLC, Portland, Maine. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - U.S., Indexed Early Land Ownership and Township Plats, 1785-1898 $

Original source: Public Land Survey Township Plats, compiled 1789. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - U.S., Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900 $

Original source: Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files (NARA microfilm publication M804, 2,670 rolls). Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Record Group 15. National Archives, Washington, D.C. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

Ancestry.com - U.S., War Bounty Land Warrants, 1789-1858 $

Original source: Multiple sources, NARA. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

BLM - The Bureau of Land Management

Bounty-Land Warrants for Military Service, 1775

From the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration.

FamilySearch - United States, Bureau of Land Management Tract Books, 1820-1908

3,907 tract books containing official records of the land status and transactions involving surveyed public lands arranged by state and then by township and range. These books indicate who obtained the land, and include a physical description of the tract and where the land is located. The type of transaction is also recorded such as cash entry, credit entry, homesteads, patents (deeds) granted by the Federal Government, and other conveyances of title such as Indian allotments, internal improvement grants (to states), military bounty land warrants, private land claims, railroad grants, school grants, and swamp grants.

FamilySearch Wiki - Land Entry Case Files

FamilySearch Wiki - United States Land and Property

General Land Office Primer of Instructive Information Relative to Legal Subdivisions and Plats of Public Land Surveys

Glossaries of BLM Surveying and Mapping Terms

Handbook for Surveyors (Google Books)

By Mansfield Merriman, John Pascal Brooks, 1895

Historic Map Works, Residential Genealogy $

The world's largest collection of online US and world property ownership maps (over a quarter million, soon to be one half million) and atlases. See where you ancestors lived by going back in time with our maps. Illustrations, photographs, and city directories are searchable by surname.

HistoryGeo.com

Brought to you by Arphax Publishing Company, HistoryGeo.com is a family history software service for linking old maps and land records to your genealogy research. This is a subscription-based site with more than 7 million landowners in the Western Land States and growing.

Land and Property Ownership for Genealogist (YouTube)

By James Tanner, from the BYU FHL webinar series. Explains the roots of Land Law in the civilized world, and showing how that applies to US.

Land Ordinance of 1785 - Wikipedia

The Land Ordinance of 1785 was adopted by the United States Congress of the Confederation on May 20, 1785. It set up a standardized system whereby settlers could purchase title to farmland in the undeveloped west.

Legacy Family Tree Webinars - Power Platting...Pictures from Property Descriptions $

By Chris Staats. Legacy Family Tree Webinars are available with a monthly or annual webinar membership subscription.