Mary Ann Bartlett Bartlett, Bell Co., TX MABartlett@aol.com bartlett@vvm.com BELL County Texas Survey - Person or Concern bearing the land certificate at time survey filed. Block - Block number. Grantee - Person or Concern to whom the land was actually awarded. Leag - League Flag. L = 4,428 acres, B = League + Labor. Labor = 177 acres. Section - Section Number Abs - Number of the Abstract on file at county courthouse and at the Texas General land Office in Austin. Survey Blk Grantee Leag Section Abs ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------- John W. MIDDLETON J.W. Middleton 621 James J. ALLEN J.J. Allen 29 SC&SF RR CO N.S. Garner 4 1260 Moses ALLEN M. Allen 39 Thornton STONE 6 T. Stone L 733 CC ALLEN C.C. Allen 1100 George ALLEN G. Allen 43 J. WASHINGTON J. Washington 911 William ALLEN 5 W. Allen L 5 24 [Down the list, the same thing was repeated for William ALLEN] John FULCHER 10 J. Fulcher L 10 James WASHINGTON J. Washington 14 1379 Samuel ALLEN S. Allen 21 31 John D. SHOLE G. Allen 42 Josiah CHALK J. Chalk 184 Joseph WASHINGTON J. Washington 907 Moses ALLEN M. Allen 23 ============================================================ I included James and Joseph WASHINGTON just in case they may have dropped the last name because the name was too long. I have found that happening in my research some times. Source: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ussearch.htm I entered one of your surnames and then chose TX as the state in which to search. The Land Records from which I took the above information were one of the matches. This particular Land Record file is for BELL CO.TX. It is 45 pages long...depending on the type of Word Processor you use. It is easier to save these matches you find to a folder on your desktop or on a disk and then look at them off-line. They are long and you cannot get more than two or three on a 3.5 floppy. Best to save to a ZIP-type drive.