EXPERT GENEALOGY Editor: Jeannette Holland Austin Series: Land Records Subject: American State Papers Date: March 21, 1999 "The American State Papers" is a source to consider. It is a collection of the executive/legislative documents preserve in the Archives and Manuscript Records of the Senate and House. The first 38 volumes of these documents were first published about 1832 by Gales and Seaton. A later version was printed about 1993 by the Southern Historical Press, Inc. called "Papers, Vols. 1-9" and "Grassroots of America, a computerized index 1789-1837". A few libraries (Idaho Genealogical Society is one) have the complete set. The interest in volumes 1-8 of the "Papers" is that it contains claims on the Public Domain of the United States. Between 1789 and 1837, some 80,0000 claims were made to land in America. In the documents are given such things as previous place of residence, names of spouse and children or other relatives, ages, and the exact location of the claims. You can use the index in the back of each volume to help you genealogy-wise with names. The land which is part of the Public Domain came from (1) Western lands claimed by the original states and (2) US acquisitions from foreign governments, such as Spain, France, and Great Britain. Volumes 1-8 also include militia claims, bounties, refugee claims, surveyor claims for compensation, as well as agreements with several Indian Nations. States which are not included in the Public Domain are the 13 original States, as well as Hawaii, Kentucky, Maine, Tennessee, Vermont, Texas, and West Virginia. ====================================== NEW RELEASES ======================================= C1020. AMERICAN MARRIAGE RECORDS BEFORE 1699. Reprinted with a "Supplement" from Genealogy Magazine, Vol. XIV, No. 4 (July 19290--Vol. XC, No. 3 (July 1930) by William Montgomery Clemens. 259 pp., paper (1926), reprinted in 1998. $35.00 This interesting compilation contains the marriage records of many of the early colonists of New England, Long Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and the Carolinas. Its 12,000 recorded marriages constitute a directory of the earliest residents in America. Names are arranged alphabetically in block letters from A to Z with original spelling variants, and information supplied with each entry includes the exact date and place of marriage. C720. AMERICANS OF ROYAL DESCENT. Genealogies Showing the Lineal Descent from Kings of Some American Families. 7th Edition. By Charles H. Browning. 575 pp., illus., Indexed, paper (1911), reprinted 1998. $52.50 A standard work on royal genealogy, this collection contains nearly 200 pedigrees showing the lineal descent of hundreds of American families from the Kings of England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and France. The data derive from authoritative reference works, from family histories, and from manuscript pedigrees held in both public and private repositories. The indexes contain references to upwards of 3,000 surnames, many with multiple entries. One need only trace a surname through lineage to connect with the Blood Royal. C9435. WARRANTS FOR LAND IN SOUTH CAROLINA 1672-1711, 3 volumes in 1. Edited by A. S. Salley, Jr. 222,226 and 264 pp., indexed, paper (1910, 1911, 1915), reprinted 1998. $59.95 This collection of land warrants consists of three separately indexed volumes referring to 5,000 land warrants. Each warrant referrred to gives the name of the warantee, location of the parcel, size of parcel, occasionally the name of wife and/or siblings, date of warrant, name of surveyor, names of signatories to the document. C658. GENEALOGIES OF THE BARBADOS FAMILIES from Caribbeana and the Journal of Barbados Museum and Historical Society by James C. Brandow. 753 pp., illus., indexed, paper (1983), repr. 1999. $62.50 Many of the early settlers of Barbados eventually moved to the mainland of North America and settled in Virginia, Georgia, the Carolinas, and other colonies. A son of John Winthrop, for example, was one of the original settlers of Barbados, and two of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Lewis Morris and Arthur Middleton, were descended from men who left Barbadoes a century earlier. 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