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Ancestry.com - U.S., Historic Land Ownership and Reference Atlases, 1507-2000
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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.
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Ancestry.com - U.S., Indexed County Land Ownership Maps, 1860-1918
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Original source: Various publishers of County Land Ownership Atlases. Microfilmed by the Library of Congress, 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.
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Ancestry.com - Wills, Probates, Land, Tax & Criminal
Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.
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Original source: Jillson, Willard Rouse. The Kentucky Land Grants. Vol. I-II. Louisville, KY, USA: Filson Club Publications, 1925.
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Beacon Local Government GIS for the Web
Online access to current maps, real estate data, tax information, and appraisal data for counties in Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, South Carolina, South Dakota.
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Bureau of Land Management - General Land Office Records
The Official Land Records Site for the United States. This site has a searchable database of more than five million (1820-present) Federal land conveyance records, including scanned images of those records. There are also images related to survey plats and field notes, dating back to 1810. The site does not currently contain every Federal title record issued for the Public Land States.
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Document Requests - Land Entry Case File
Explanation of steps involved to get copies of the National Archives and Records Administration Land Entry Case Files.
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Search Documents By Type, By Location, By Identifier
There are 4 documents in the search: Patents, Survey Plats and Field Notes, Land Status Records, Control Document Index. Patents are for 49 states and DC. Survey Plates and Field Notes are for Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, New Mexico, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Washington DC, Wisconsin, West Virginia, Wyoming. Land Status Records are for Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, North Dakota, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota. Control Document Index is for Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, New Mexico, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Wyoming.
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Downloadable deed files for Kentucky, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia & West Virginia.
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Legacy Family Tree Webinars - Finding Kentucky Land: Grants, Deeds and the Missing Pieces
By J. Mark Lowe, CG, FUGA
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Secretary of State Kentucky Land Office
In Kentucky, land is allocated via the patenting process. The Kentucky Secretary of State's office is the repository for all records pertaining to patents issued within the Kentucky boundary, including those issued by the state of Virginia prior to Kentucky's statehood in 1792. This website contains searchable databases and information regarding military warrants issued for service in the French and Indian War, Lord Dunmore's War and the Revolutionary War; non-military warrants and the resulting patents and a number of other databases.
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Kentucky Land History, Research Aids, Powerpoint Presentations.
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Certificates of Settlement & Preemption Warrants
Under the Virginia land law of 1779, any bona fide settler in Kentucky County (also known as the Kentucky District) prior to January 1, 1778, who had made an improvement and planted a crop of corn was eligible for a 400-acre certificate of settlement for the land he or she had improved.
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In 1835, the Kentucky General Assembly modified the system for patenting unappropriated land in the Commonwealth. Prospective landowners purchased orders (or warrants) from the county court authorizing the county surveyor to survey a tract of unappropriated land for a patent application.
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The southern half of the Jackson Purchase region in western Kentucky was acquired under the October 19, 1818, land treaty between the United States and the Chickasaw Indian Nation. On February 14, 1820, the Kentucky General Assembly passed legislation stated the entire Jackson Purchase region would be mapped in compliance with the system used by the federal government for surveying public lands.
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This database includes the complete text of the Acts of the Virginia General Assembly and the Kentucky General Assembly creating all 120 Kentucky counties. It also includes Fincastle, Kentucky, Henrietta, Beckham and Zollicoffer counties.
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In 1780 Kentucky County, Virginia, was divided into three counties: Fayette, Jefferson and Lincoln. The Virginia General Assembly instructed the Kentucky County Surveyor to copy land entries into separate volumes for each of the new counties. This database contains 4,763 entries reserving land for patenting in the Lincoln County area from November 3, 1779, through April 19, 1792.
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The resources on this website provide everything from background information on Kentucky's history to research aids to links to groups and events that will allow you to further your research.
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Revolutionary War Warrants Database
This database indicates includes 4,748 bounty land warrants issued by Virginia to veterans of the Revolutionary War.
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Virginia and Old Kentucky Patent Series
In 1779 the Virginia General Assembly passed legislation that established the land patenting process for appropriating land in Kentucky County. A variety of land warrants and special legislative acts could be used to initiate a patent. Under the terms of the 1789 Compact with Virginia, Kentucky agreed to honor patents issued prior to Kentucky's statehood on June 1, 1792. The land patenting process continued after statehood.
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The May 1779 Land Laws passed by the Virginia General Assembly authorized the sale of treasury warrants to patent "waste and unappropriated land."
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West of Tennessee River Military Patents
The sourthern portion of the area known as the Jackson Purchase in western Kentucky was acquired under the October 19, 1818, land treaty between the United States and the Chickasaw Indian Nation.
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West of Tennessee River Non-Military Patents
The Chickasaw Indian Nation relinquished all lands east of the Mississippi River and north of the Mississippi state line with the signing of the Treaty of October 19, 1818.
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By Willard Rouse Jillson, digitized by HathiTrust.
