>Resent-Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 12:22:53 -0700 (PDT) >X-Sender: psmartoc@eastnet.educ.ecu.edu >Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 15:25:14 -0400 >Old-To: Pridgen-L@rootsweb.com, NCWilson-L@rootsweb.com >From: "Jeannette H. Austin" <jha@mindspring.com> (by way of "Carol P. Martoccia" <psmartoc@eastnet.educ.ecu.edu>) >Old-Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Subject: [NCWILSON-L] National Archives: Land Records >Resent-Message-ID: <"8hModC.A.nw.ECAk1"@fp-1.rootsweb.com> >To: NCWILSON-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-From: NCWILSON-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <NCWILSON-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/91 >X-Loop: NCWILSON-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-Sender: NCWILSON-L-request@rootsweb.com > >EXPERT GENEALOGY NEWSLETTER >Editor: Jeannette Holland Austin > >Series: National Archives >Subject: Land Records > >Date: June 23, 1998 > >To search for land records at the National Archives, >here is some of what they have. > >There are partial indexes at the National Archives, >as well as in the Bureau of Land Management, as follows: > >1. Warrants under the Act of 1788 (incomplete) >2. Virginia Military Warrants >3. Private Land Claims >4. Coal and Mineral Entries >5. Name indexes of land entries arranged by District >Land Offices in the states of Alabama, Arizona, Florida, >Louisiana, Nevada, Utah and Alaska. >6. Among the records of the Veteran's Administration in >the National Archives, there is an alphabetical index to >applications for military bounty land warrants issued under >the Acts of 1847, 1850, 1852, and 1853. (Applications for >warrants before 1880 were lost by fire; the National Archives >has only cards for such entries). > >If you want to locate any other land entry file in the >National Archives, you need to have the legal description >of the land or the date, or approximate date of entry, and >the name of the land office through which the entry was made. > >Revolutionary War veterans were granted land according to >rank (Acts of 1788, 1789, 1803 and 1806). A Major-General >was tranted 1100 acres; a Captain 300; Lieutenant 200; Ensign >150; Private, 100. > >After 1855, there were no bounty land grants. Union veterans >of the Civil War could take Homestead Land, or Donation Land >in Oregon and Washington. Confederate soldiers were not >allowed to file for land. > > >