Or, more likely, they bought it directly from someone who had patented it. -----Original Message----- From: Kathleen/Robert G. Marsh <kmarsh@innet.com> To: FLORIDA-L@rootsweb.com <FLORIDA-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Friday, March 26, 1999 7:30 PM Subject: Re: Land Patents and other ownership >One possibility is that the land was obtained through provisions of the >Armed Occupation Act of 1842; perhaps the family had already found and built >on a spot they liked and were able to acquire it then. There were also some >early Spanish land grants, large and small. Some of these were used to >entice early settlers into the territory of Florida. > >Have you already looked at the Bureau of Land Management records for >Florida? > >Kathleen Marsh kmarsh@innet.com > >-----Original Message----- >From: Richard & Deborah Callicott <Callicott@pobox.com> >To: FLORIDA-L@rootsweb.com <FLORIDA-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Friday, March 26, 1999 8:45 AM >Subject: Land Patents and other ownership > >can not find a US land patent ever being issued on the property. (cash sale >or homestead).. Were there other ways to obtain property here in FL? The >land had been lived on by the family since the 1830's. > >