Hi, My ancestors also came to Jennings Co. from VA via somewhere in KY, then a brief period near Cincinnati, then on to Jennings Co. (CONNER) in 1820. I am curious who they may have bought the land from in Ohio? Was the Government selling land, or private land companies, or both? Their biographies say they carved out their homesteads from the unbroken forest at that time, just a very few years after the formation of Jennings Co. Dick in Las Vegas
Dick, According to the book, Jennings County Indiana 1816-1999: The government survey of Indiana and Jennings county was the result of the Congress legislation called the Land Ordinance of 1787. There was a battle between the advocated of the sale of new lands to farmers, frontiersmen and merchant to become owners of small parcels of land and the wealthy southern plantation owners and southern aristocrats who felt their wealth made them more capable of handling the sale of the land and development of new lands. John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were instrumental in pushing the Rectangular Survey System which called for a survey of all lands and then that it be sold in 40 acre tracts for as little as $1.s5 an acre. the purpose of selling the land was to raise money to pays the debts from the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Thought that was pretty interesting. Jenny ----- Original Message ----- From: <LasVegDick@aol.com> To: <INJENNIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2001 6:16 PM Subject: [INJENNIN] KY settlers to Jennings Co. > Hi, > My ancestors also came to Jennings Co. from VA via somewhere in KY, then a > brief period near Cincinnati, then on to Jennings Co. (CONNER) in 1820. I am > curious who they may have bought the land from in Ohio? Was the Government > selling land, or private land companies, or both? Their biographies say they > carved out their homesteads from the unbroken forest at that time, just a > very few years after the formation of Jennings Co. > Dick in Las Vegas > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >