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"A land bounty is a grant of land from a government as a reward to pay citizens for the risks and hardships they endured in the service of their country, usually in a military related capacity." This volume lists bounty land grants in Connecticut, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, and "Virginia-Indiana."--Introduction, p. v-xxv.
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This work provides genealogical data on about 1000 families who lived in the hill country of west central Alabama prior to the Civil War. Most were squatters who came primarily from Virginia and the Carolinas, often after having stopped in Tennessee or Georgia long enough to renew food supplies, rest livestock, await the birth of a child or the death of an elderly parent. Ethnically most of the pioneers were of Celtic stock, descendants of early Virginia...
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"This book contains approximately 2,000 land grants recorded in Greene County, Tennessee. Some of these grants were made by the U.S. Government to pay off debts to officers and soldiers who served in the Revolutionary War; some of the grants was land owned and sold by Lord Granville; while other grants were issued by the states of North Carolina and Tennessee to encourage settlement in the new state of Tennessee. All grants had to be registered by...
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Vol. 1 - being some of the legal records of Columbia, Hancock, Jefferson and Warren counties.-- vol. 2 - being some of the legal records of Clarke, Jasper, Morgan, Putnam, Oglethrope and Greene Counties, Georgia.-- vol. 3 - being some of the legal records of Bibb, Butts, Fayette, Henry, Monroe and Newton counties.
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On May 23, 1836, the New Ochota Treaty was ratified and the land involved, once part of the great Cherokee Nation, was ceded to the United States. The removal of the Indians began in 1837 but the Trail of Tears was not completed until 1838. But, even before the treaty, many white settlers had been occupying the area for years. Anyone EXCEPT a member of the Cherokee Nation could file a claim for 160 acres within the first two months at the rate of...
14) The 1833 land lottery of Georgia, and other missing names of winners in the Georgia land lotteries
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"Farris Cadle ... discovered a Georgia law of 1833 that ordered thd fractional (less than 40 acres) land lots of the 1832 Georgia Gold Land Lot Lottery to be drawn from the remaining (losing) tickets of the two 1832 land lotteries. A search of the Georgia Surveyor General Department has turned up the list of some 1,500 Georgia citizens who won the lots dispensed in the forgotten 1833 land lottery."--Introduction, p. 1.
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The State of Tennessee was established, essentially, from land ceded to the federal government by North Carolina. Clouding the various land cession laws that transferred the title of land from North Carolina to the United States south of the River Ohio (a territory) and then to Tennessee was the requirement, however vaguely defined, that North Carolina Revolutionary soldiers' promise of land for military service be honored. Among other things, this...
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