I read Patrick's e-mail on land patents and grants with interest. On a trip earlier this month to Casey county, I discovered a book called Surveyors Record. Although a search of deed books had come up with nothing on my great-great grandmother Julia Chasteen or her father Jesse Crutcher, there was a record of two surveys for Julia in this book. In 1871, Wm. Smith, "DSCC" (deputy surveyor Casey County?), for J.B. Carson, SCC, surveyed "for Julia Chasteen, assignee of Jesse Crutcher, who was assignee of Christopher R. Coffey, 40 acres of land by virtue of part of an entry made at the Surveyors office of Casey County on the 26th day of December 1870 on part of a Casey County court land warrant which (was) issued at the July term 1863 for 106 acres situated in Casey County on the ridge between Woodsfork and Green River..." At the library, I found on microfilm a court order from the July term 1863, "C.R. Coffey having paid to the court ten dollars and thirty cents for which the court awards to said Coffey a land warrant for two hundred and six acres which the surveyor of Casey County is ordered to survey to said Coffey out of any unappropriated lands in this county." In this case, at least on paper, it appears the court granted Mr. Coffey land which had not yet been surveyed. Since I didn't see any other entries for Coffey that month, I assume the 106 instead of 206 acres was an clerical error. My real question: Does anybody know or have any idea how I would find out where specifically this land was? The survey talks about hickory trees and poplars and mentions the 40 acres bordering on Jesse Crutchers' line, Jesse Riches' line, and Wesley Davis' corner. I spoke with one of the ladies at the clerk's office and she had no idea how to proceed. Anybody with any ideas?