-----Original Message----- From: Thomas Anderson [SMTP:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 07, 1999 12:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: FW: American State Papers This is the first copy I have seen of her newsletter, but thought I would share in case anyone is interested. It is a free mailing list. Karen From: "Jeannette" <[email protected]> To: "Expert Genealogy"<[email protected]> EXPERT GENEALOGY Editor: Jeannette Holland Austin Series: Land Sources Subject: American State Papers - Laws Date: April 1, 1999 In 1775 Continental Congress promised land to Revolutionary War veterans. Thus began the Public Domain Laws. In 1785 they established a Rectangular Survey System (Northwest Territory) which allowed the sale of land. All of the Public Domain had to be surveyed before titles could be issued. In 1786, surveys were made of all townships north of the Ohio River, with the first land sale occurring the following year. This system became the standard for identifying and conveying title. Even before the survey, settlers moved into the Public Domain, and waited to file claims. So what happened to the land in the Public Domain which has previously been granted to people by the French, Spanish and British Governments? Such private land claims had to be validated by the US Government, and so commissions were established to evaluate such claims. Many actions ended up in the federal courts. Also, Indian claims had to be adjudicated before title could be granted. When settlers filed entries under the Public Land Laws, conflicts occurred with those having the old land grants. Appeals were presented to Congress, and records of these private relief actions are contained in the American State Papers. The land Private Land Claims which were determined to be valid by the claims commissioner and federal courts are "first-title deeds" and were surveyed outside the rectangular survey system. This means that the rectangular survey stops at the boundaries of such private claims and legal titles. Here is an example of what you would expect to find - John Brown filed a claim in Florida to 95 acres that was first granted to Josiah Gray on February 16, 1816, by Governor Coppinger. Gray then sold it to George Flemming in 1819, who in turn sold the tract to Brown. This claim was supported by copies of deeds and surveyed as claimed. The claims board confirmed the claim to Brown and his heirs on April 17, 1824. Many claims were not approved. Such as the 1835 petition of Matthew Arbuckle for eight tracts totaling 2132 acres in Arkansas. Arbuckle claimed that he purchased those tracts from five individuals in 1829 in the Lawrence Land District, Arkansas Territory, presenting copies of instruments claiming to transfer title to him. All of these parcels were originally entered as Spanish Land Claims, which had been confirmed by land courts of Arkansas Territory when he purchased them, and were described by the rectangular survey system. Despite the evidence presented, his claim as denied. However, genealogical data can be found in the claims. ============= BOOK REVIEWS ============= A HISTORY OF MARION COUNTY, GEORGIA, Motherland of Many by Rena S. Cobb. 734 pp. Hardbound. Price: $60.00 plus $5.00 postage. This history is written by local newswoman, Rena Cobb which includes contributions from many others having Marion County roots. Includes family histories with over 200 photographs, communities, churches and clubs, schools and education, business and agriculture, marrige records (1845-1900), the 1860 Census, County Commissioners 1846-1996, Early Roads, Trails and Railroads, and more. Order from: Rena S. Cobb, Rt. 2, Box 177, Richland, GA 31825 Send checks or money orders only. - ---------------------------------------------------------- - ---------------------------- THE BROTHERS CONWAY OF MADISON COUNTY VIRGINIA Autobiographies of Catlett Conway and William Buchanan Conway. Compiled and edited by Anne H. (Price) Yates. Hardbound, 86 pp., indexed. Price: $51.00 ppd. Battaile Fitzhugh Taliaferro Conway was born at Spring Hill in Orange County, Virginia, one of the wealthiest men in Madison County before the Civil War. This book contains the biographies of two of his sons, Catlett Conway and William Buchanan Conway. Includes letters and photographs. Order from: Anne H. Yates, Box 2047, Ridgecrest, CA 93556-2047. - ---------------------------------- BATER BOOK AND ALLIED FAMILIES: Shore-Ensley-Granger- Thomas * By A. L. 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This newsletter is designed to work for you, so your participation is welcomed and needed. To subscribe - Send check or money order (payable to Rhonda L. Hawkins) to - Rhonda L. Hawkins, 351 Bingham Street, Marietta, GA 30060-3986 ============== NEW RELEASES ============== C1190. MARRIAGE LICENSES OF CAROLINE COUNTY, MARYLAND, 1774-1815 by Henry Downes Craner. 62 pp., paper (1904), repr. 1998. $22.50 Caroline County, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, was formed in 1774 from parts of Queen Anne's and Dorchester counties, which now constitute Caroline's northern and southern boundaries. It is bounded on the west by Talbot County and on the east by Kent and Sussex Counties, Delaware, so it is indeed a county of genealogical significence. The marriage licenses transcribed herein represent all those recorded during the forty years immediately following Caroline's erection. The licenses were copied from the records in the office of the Clerk of the County Court, and but one year - 1776 - is missing. The listings are arranged chronologicaly and name over 4,000 brides and grooms with the men named first. This material originally appeared in three issues, in 1904, of the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. C9564. CHRONICLES OF COLONIAL MARYLAND With Illustrations by James Walter Thomas. 334 pp., illus, map, paper. (1900), repr. 1999. $40.00 Thomas' history of Maryland focuses upon a number of aspects of Maryland's colonial history which, at the time of the book's original publication in 1900, had received scant attention. Thus in the first chapter the author concentrates on St. Clement's, Maryland, the precise place of the first landing in St. Mary's County. In fact, a third of the book is devoted to Maryland's first capital, St. Mary's City, and its surrounding county. Here the genealogist with 17th-century Maryland ancestry can benefit from a discussion of the laying out of the city, the founding of the Catholic Church in Maryland, the Calverts and their descendants, Governor Calvert's manors, early civil divisions, and more. In addition, a topographical map of St. Mary's City is included showing the location of principal lots and homes. Other topics include land tenure of colonial Maryland, including the methods of obtaining and transferring land, remnants of feudal tenure, deeds of conveyance, and land tenure's influence in shaping colonial institutions and the habits of people; Maryland's judiciary system, with coverage of the evolution of local court system, the provincial court, appeals to King and Council, etc.; and the character of Maryland's Episcopalian religious establishment, with coverage of the parishes, taxes, bureaucracy, and various individual churches. C3310. LEE OF VIRGINIA, 1642-1892. Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of the Descendants of Colonel Richard Lee. With Brief Notices of the Related Families of Allerton, Armistead, Ashton, Aylett, Bedinger, Beverley, Bland, Bolling, Carroll, Carter, Chambers, Corbin, Custis, Digges, Fairfax, Fitzhugh, Gardner, Grymes, Hanson, Jenings, Jones, Ludwell, Marshall, Mason, Page, Randolph, Shepherd, Shippen, Tabb, Taylor, Turbeville, Washington and others. By Edmund Jennings Lee. 586 pp., illus, indexed, paper. (1895), repr. 1999. $55.00 The Lee family is composed of perhaps the most distinguished ancestry on record, having provided, for example, greater numbers of Revolutionary and Civil War generals and officers, politicians, and statesmen than any family of comparable size and standing. Colonel Richard Lee, Secretary o f the Colony of Virginia and presumably a Counsellor to King Charles, was the progenitor of the Virginia Less and was himself descended from the Coton branch of the Lees of Shropshire. The purpose of this volume is to collect and preserve in permanent form the history of Colonel Lee's posterity. Includes the life of Colonel Lee, detailing each of his children and grandchildren. As only three of the immigrant's sons have been proven to have left surviving male issue in Virginia, and as the issue of these three sons form three distinct lines of descent, they are treated separately. Taken from wills, deeds, family bibles, tombstones. Includes Coats-of-arms and other heraldic representations. C2800. RECORDS OF THE REFORMED DUTCH CHURCH OF ALBANY, NEW YORK, 1683-1809, Marriages, Baptisms, Members, etc. by The Holland Society of New York. 924 pp., indexed, paper (1904-1927), repr. 1999. $75.00 Between 1904 and 1927, in eight separate Year Books, The Holland Society of New York published the records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Albany, consisting of exhaustive lists of marriages, baptisms, and members of the Dutch community in the vicinity of Albany. Established as early as 1642, this church was the center of one of the most prosperous communities in colonial America, and its members provided an important source both of migration and pioneer leadership throughout the entire period of westward expansion. Thousands upon thousands left their traces in these church records. C3620. THE BOOK OF NAMES. ESPECIALLY RELATING TO THE EARLY PALATINES AND THE FIRST SETTLERS IN THE MOHAWK VALLEY by Lou D. MacWethy. 209 pp., illus., paper. (1933), repr. 1999 - $32.50 When originally published in 1933, this classic work listed for the first time the names of the early Palatines of New York State, the original settlers of the Mohawk Valley, known as the "Gateway to the West". The estimated 20,000 names are classified, combined, and otherwise arranged to enable to researcher to identify Palatine immigrants in relation to specific categories of records. Among the important lists of names are the following: (1) The Kocherthal records of baptisms, marriages and deaths, 1708-1719 (2) Palatine heads of families, from Gov. Hunter's Ration Lists, 1710-1714 (3) Lists of Palatines in 1709 (the four London lists of emigrants from Germany, most who emigrated to America (4) Palatines remaining and newly arrived in New York, from the colonial census of 1710 (5) Names of Palatine children apprenticed by Gov. Hunter, 1710-1714 and (6) Various lists of Palatines in the colonial militia of New York Postage - $3.50 ORDER FROM - Jeannette H. Austin Genealogy Books 175 Thornton Drive Fayetteville GA 30214 1-800-899-9524 Local 770-719-1754 Fax 770-719-8699 Order online: http://www.genealogy-books.com/gpcorder.htm ACCEPT VISA, MASTERCARD, DISCOVER * part0_922932192_boundary- --------- End forwarded message ---------- ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. 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