I am attempting to document two plots of land that Francis M. MeGehee purchased on Feb 27, 1841 and registered at the Columbus Land Office. The purchase was a sale-cash entry and the land description I have makes me believe it may have been Choctaw Indian Land -- I believe the land may may been located in Lowndes county. -- I have checked with the BLM.gov but came up with a zero ----can anyone help me. June Millwood

Dear June, I went to <http://www.glorecords.blm.gov> and found the following: 2/27/1841, Daniel Greene and Francis McGehee, 80.25 acres, cash entry, Document 10311 2/27/1841, Francis M. McGehee, 80.25 acres, cash entry, Document 10089 2/27/1841, Francis M. McGehee, 80.56 acres, cash entry, Document 10090 Hope this helps. Mozelle On Thursday, September 9, 2004, at 04:32 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I am attempting to document two plots of land that Francis M. MeGehee > purchased on Feb 27, 1841 and registered at the Columbus Land Office. > The purchase > was a sale-cash entry and the land description I have makes me believe > it may > have been Choctaw Indian Land -- I believe the land may may been > located in > Lowndes county. -- I have checked with the BLM.gov but came up with > a zero > ----can anyone help me. > > June Millwood > > > ==== MSATTALA Mailing List ==== > The American Local History Network, Attala County web site can be > found at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ms/county/attala/. Its well > worth a visit. >

This may help Wanda Eakin Lentz Land Records " At different times, early Mississippi land records were granted by four different jurisdictions: France, Britain, Spain, and the state of Georgia. These four all owned parts of Mississippi before the area became part of the United States in 1798. Ownership of land based on a grant from a former jurisdiction is called a private land claim, and each landowner of these claims was required to file it with the federal government after Mississippi came under U.S. jurisdiction. These private land claim records are on microfilm (RG 28 SG 1) at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History . Mississippi is a public land state, which means that initial (first-grant) disposition of public owned land after 1798 became the responsibility of the federal government under the GLO (now BLM). Kinds of records contained here are field notes and surveys, tract books, official monthly abstracts, patents, and entry records. For the individual buying land directly from the United States government, the transaction was recorded in local federal land offices, and the legal description was entered into tract books. Mississippi's eight land office districts and the chronological periods of operation within the state of Mississippi were the following: St. Stephens (or district east of the Pearl River) (26 December 1806-17) was the first opened land office district, and it was the first closed. The district was located in what is now Washington County, Alabama. Transactions covered those for the southeastern district, including land Georgia ceded to the federal government in 1798 and 1802. Augusta became the land office serving the area. The Washington land office (Adams County) (or district west of the Pearl River) (1807-61) covered land including Choctaw sales of individual reserves. The federal land office at Huntsville, Alabama (1810-present), was created for the purpose of managing those lands acquired by treaties with the Chickasaw in 1805 and Cherokee in 1806, the office is located in Madison County, Alabama. See Marilyn Davis Barefield, comp., Old Huntsville Land Office Records and Military Warrants, 1810-1854 (Easley, S.C.: Southern Historical Press, 1985). Between 1827-36, the Jackson land office (Hinds County) (1823-27, 1836-61, 1866-1925) was located at Mt. Salus and regulated land sales in west-central Mississippi. The office at August (Perry County) (1820-59) was moved to Paulding (Jasper County) in 1860-61, having jurisdiction over lands in the lower portion of east-central Mississippi. The Columbus district (Lowndes County) (1833-61) encompassed lands in the northern portion of east-central Mississippi. The Chocchuma land office (now Grenada County) (1833-40) was located in the Choctaw District on the Yalobusha River. It moved to Grenada after 1840 where it continued operating until 1860, serving land in the vicinity of northwest Mississippi. The Pontotoc office (Pontotoc County) (1836-61) served lands roughly in the extreme northeast of Mississippi. By 1869, all were consolidated to one in Jackson. When the land offices closed in Mississippi, the land records were sent to the BLM; however, the original field notes and plat books are housed at the Secretary of State's Office. The best genealogical information pulled from the first-grant land records may be found in the various types of entry records. The private land claim, as previously explained, was the entry record which recorded claims to land from foreign governments. Military bounty land was issued as a reward for military service. Credit entries were simply those lands purchased with the intent of paying later, and the Cash entry signified those lands sold after 1820 when land was sold for cash only. Those lands given by the government for specific reasons were called donation entries. Homestead entries were created under the Homestead Act of 1862, which gave certain stipulations to settlers in exchange for land. Another type of land transaction involves the buying and selling of property among private citizens (subsequent sales). In Mississippi, these transactions are recorded as deeds at the county courthouse and filed by the chancery clerk, although the Mississippi Department of Archives and History and the FHL have large collections of these land records on microfilm, filed by county. The Mississippi Department of Archives and History has copies of records taken from both the land commissioner's office (first-grants) and the offices of chancery clerks (subsequent sales). The Congressional Records in the archives provide a considerable amount of information about land legislation including petitions from individuals, land companies, and state and local governments regarding land claims from 1795 to 1872. Located in these documents are also copies of treaties with Native Americans regarding land cessions. Other information is dispersed throughout the provincial, territorial, state and federal records found in the collection. The map file includes extensive land surveys for the area of the lower Mississippi Valley." (Source: Ancestry's Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources ) ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 5:32 PM Subject: [MSATTALA] Land Records > I am attempting to document two plots of land that Francis M. MeGehee > purchased on Feb 27, 1841 and registered at the Columbus Land Office. The purchase > was a sale-cash entry and the land description I have makes me believe it may > have been Choctaw Indian Land -- I believe the land may may been located in > Lowndes county. -- I have checked with the BLM.gov but came up with a zero > ----can anyone help me. > > June Millwood > > > ==== MSATTALA Mailing List ==== > The American Local History Network, Attala County web site can be found at http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ms/county/attala/. Its well worth a visit. > >