------------------------------------------------------------------ FORWARDED MESSAGE - Orig: 24-Jan-99 10:35 Subject: [OHIO] Entrymen From: June Jacobs Jordan jordanaj@gte.net ------------------------------------------------------------------ Norma, Reference to entrymen in second paragraph. June Land Records and Homestead In official terms, a Land Grant is "Land conveyed by a government to a private party; document transferring title to land from a government to a private party." Homestead entry is "application initiated under the homestead laws which provide for issuance of patents to entrymen who settle on and improve agricultural public lands". After the formation of the federal government, all land outside the original 13 states plus Maine, Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia were ceded to the government; this land was called the public domain. There are thirty public land states. The land was surveyed at the direction of the Continental Congress. The lands surveyed first were to be available for military bounties; the remaining lands were to be offered for sale to the public. The homestead act of 1862 replaced original sales/preemption (had settled before it was opened for settlement) with government giving land to settlers who had improved the land and lived on it a certain amount of time. A patent is the actual document which transfers title to land from the federal government to a private party. !^NavFont02F04CD0007NGHHKCE8340 Maggie's World of Courthouse Dust & Genealogy Fever http://www.infinet.com/~dzimmerm/mindex.html *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* God Put Me On Earth to Accomplish a Certain Number of Things. Right Now I am so far behind, I will never die. --- Unknown *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a New Year filled with good health, good friends, and more than enough good luck. *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*