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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 - North Carolina and Tennessee, U.S., Early Land Records, 1753-1931 $

  Original source: Tennessee. Division of Archives, Land Office, and Museum. Early Tennessee/North Carolina Land Records, 1783–1927, Record Group 50. Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tenn. 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 - North Carolina and Tennessee, U.S., Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 1783-1843 $

  Original source: Tennessee. North Carolina Revolutionary War Land Warrants, 1783–1837. Land Office Records, 1783–1927, Record Group 50. Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee. 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 - Wills, Probates, Land, Tax & Criminal

  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.

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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.

• 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 217,460 land grants issued by the state of North Carolina from 1663 to 1960, including around 10,000 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. 41,000 Images of all Lord Granville Grants including signed deeds, warrants, and surveys. 6,300 Images of all Land Grant Entry Books copied by the state 1778 - 1795. 1,400 records of pre-1730 land grants not found in any other online databases.

• North Carolina land grants in Tennessee, 1778-1791 (HathiTrust)

  Ebook by Betty Goff Cook Cartwright.

• TNGenWeb's, Tennessee's Land Disputes With North Carolina