One name that comes to mind immediately, is the Craig family. In reading land documents, the process is pretty well described; these large land claims - maybe 30,000 acres - were entered, knowing that the entire area enclosed many small claims. When the case got to court, the small claim-owners were forced to produce documents proving every step of their claim (entry, survey, grant). Many of these small owners had not followed all the requirements, perhaps because they were illiterate as Boone is said to have been, or because of lack of money to pay surveyors, filing of papers, etc. If the small-claimers could not produce the required docs, their claim was thrown out. It was a legal maneuver, seems to me, to separate the true claimants from the false/incomplete claimants. Mary Alice ________________________________________ PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com

What you have said about land claims is most interesting. I have always wanted to know most of the details. What is legal is not always moral. Boone and others were the first in and fought for the land. To think he lost it because he did not have a survey was too bad. But one has to follow the system, do we not? Batha Karr ----- Original Message ----- From: "M. A. Farrell" <mafarr28@peoplepc.com> To: "madCoList" <madky@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 2:24 PM Subject: Re: [MADKY] "Large Land Claims" > One name that comes to mind immediately, is the Craig family. In reading > land documents, the process is pretty well described; these large land > claims - maybe 30,000 acres - were entered, knowing that the entire area > enclosed many small claims. When the case got to court, the small > claim-owners were forced to produce documents proving every step of their > claim (entry, survey, grant). Many of these small owners had not followed > all the requirements, perhaps because they were illiterate as Boone is > said to have been, or because of lack of money to pay surveyors, filing of > papers, etc. If the small-claimers could not produce the required docs, > their claim was thrown out. It was a legal maneuver, seems to me, to > separate the true claimants from the false/incomplete claimants. Mary > Alice > > ________________________________________ > PeoplePC Online > A better way to Internet > http://www.peoplepc.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MADKY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Amen........... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Batha Karr" <batha.k@comcast.net> To: "M. A. Farrell" <mafarr28@peoplepc.com>; <madky@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 6:31 PM Subject: Re: [MADKY] "Large Land Claims" > What you have said about land claims is most interesting. I have always > wanted to know most of the details. What is legal is not always moral. > Boone > and others were the first in and fought for the land. To think he lost it > because he did not have a survey was too bad. But one has to follow the > system, do we not? > > Batha Karr > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "M. A. Farrell" <mafarr28@peoplepc.com> > To: "madCoList" <madky@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 2:24 PM > Subject: Re: [MADKY] "Large Land Claims" > > >> One name that comes to mind immediately, is the Craig family. In reading >> land documents, the process is pretty well described; these large land >> claims - maybe 30,000 acres - were entered, knowing that the entire area >> enclosed many small claims. When the case got to court, the small >> claim-owners were forced to produce documents proving every step of their >> claim (entry, survey, grant). Many of these small owners had not >> followed >> all the requirements, perhaps because they were illiterate as Boone is >> said to have been, or because of lack of money to pay surveyors, filing >> of >> papers, etc. If the small-claimers could not produce the required docs, >> their claim was thrown out. It was a legal maneuver, seems to me, to >> separate the true claimants from the false/incomplete claimants. Mary >> Alice >> >> ________________________________________ >> PeoplePC Online >> A better way to Internet >> http://www.peoplepc.com >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> MADKY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MADKY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message

Mary Ann there seems to be a good deal of land gouging (Grabbing) in Missouri claims. Many of the people trusted not too ethical "lawyers" as they really could not understand the legalize{I meet them to this very day who cannot understand a land description] let alone entailments of that land. I have read legal land description from about age eight when my grandfather gave me a deed and read what was supposed to be in it to see if it was totally correct. He was once complimented "as never making a mistake on a contract." And he made one(a sale of land) on the day he died. Bud. -----Original Message----- From: madky-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:madky-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of M. A. Farrell Sent: Friday, July 27, 2007 3:25 PM To: madCoList Subject: Re: [MADKY] "Large Land Claims" One name that comes to mind immediately, is the Craig family. In reading land documents, the process is pretty well described; these large land claims - maybe 30,000 acres - were entered, knowing that the entire area enclosed many small claims. When the case got to court, the small claim-owners were forced to produce documents proving every step of their claim (entry, survey, grant). Many of these small owners had not followed all the requirements, perhaps because they were illiterate as Boone is said to have been, or because of lack of money to pay surveyors, filing of papers, etc. If the small-claimers could not produce the required docs, their claim was thrown out. It was a legal maneuver, seems to me, to separate the true claimants from the false/incomplete claimants. Mary Alice ________________________________________ PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MADKY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message