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Ancestry.com - North Carolina and Tennessee, Early Land Records, 1753-1931 $

Original source: Tennessee. Division of Archives, Land Office, and Museum. Early Tennessee/North Carolina Land Records, 1783
Ancestry.com - Search Tax, Criminal, Land & Wills

Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.
BLM - The Bureau of Land Management
- 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.
  - Reference - Frequently Asked Questions
  - Reference Center
    - Document Requests - Eastern States Patent Request
    - Document Requests - Land Entry Case File
      
      Explanation of steps involved to get copies of the National Archives and Records Administration Land Entry Case Files.
    - Glossary
    - Rectangular Survey System
  - 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.
FamilySearch Wiki - Tennessee Land and Property
GSC Associates Second Surveyor's District Products $

On-line access to searches of the 9,091 surveys in the 2nd District, plus on-line ordering of copies of surveys. The Records of the Second Surveyor's District of Middle Tennessee.
Information found in deeds

This extensive tutorial with examples shows the types of information that can be found in deeds and how to use that information in research. From GSC Associates.
Land Grants in Tennessee by North Carolina

An article by Carolina Books.
Land Records in the Tennessee State Library and Archives

Tennessee State Library & Archives Nashville Tennessee
North Carolina Land Grant Images and Data

This free site contains searchable data for over 216,000 land grants issued by the state of North Carolina from 1663 to 1960, including around 12,000 grants issued for what is now Tennessee. Over 36,000 grants are linked directly to an image of the page in the corresponding Land Patent Book where the land description was recorded. For Mecklenburg County, over 5,000 grants are linked to over 28,000 high quality images of original warrants, surveys and other related documents. Over 28,000 high quality images of Mecklenburg County NC land grant documents, along with searchable data for 33,000 grants covering Anson, Cabarrus, Catawba, Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Rowan, Tryon, and Union Counties.
North Carolina land grants in Tennessee, 1778-1791 (HathiTrust)

Ebook by Betty Goff Cook Cartwright.

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