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From: "Debbie Carder" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] federal land grants
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 02:26:46 -0400
References: <20060901055132.3785.qmail@web36112.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


Thanks, Katherine. I didn't see this on the glorecords website. I already
have the form. I just wasn't sure whether to use form 84 or 85 and found
nothing on that website or NARA mentioning the script Warrant Act of 1790,
which is the act named on the patent as the authority.
Debbie Carder Mayes

http://allencogenealogysociety.homestead.com/Main.html

www.tribalpages.com/tribes/deb6102

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Katherine Flynn" <>
To: "Debbie Carder" <>; "APG-L" <>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 1:51 AM
Subject: Re: [APG] federal land grants


> Dear Debbie,
>
> Please see the following on the BLM website:
>
> http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/Visitors/TitleTransfer.asp
>
> There it shows:
>
> Authority Code: 261010
> August 10, 1790
> 1 Stat. 182
>
> Virginia Military Warrant Act
>
> Set aside land in Ohio for American Revolution
> veterans inside VA Military District
>
> Furthermore, please see the following which is also on
> the BLM site:
>
> http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/Visitors/Requests.asp#nara
>
> where it states:
>
> The National Archives and Records Administration
> (NARA) welcomes researchers to use both original and
> microfilmed records. The reference staff can help you
> to plan your research and to find and understand
> records. If you are unable to visit NARA in
> Washington, DC, or its regional archives, you may
> obtain copies of documents through the mail.
>
> Customers who wish to order copies of the GLO land
> entry case files held by NARA must do so by using a
> NATF Form 84, Request for Copies of Land Entry Files.
> Copies of this form may be requested by contacting
> NARA at the following address:
>
>
> Old Military and Civil Records
> National Archives and Records Administration
> Room 11 E
> 7th and Pennsylvania Ave NW
> Washington, DC 20408
> E-mail:
>
> When requesting the form by E-mail, please indicate in
> the body of the message that you are requesting copies
> of the NATF Form 84. Include your name, surface
> mailing address, and daytime phone number. Order forms
> will be mailed to you and are not available
> electronically or by fax.
>
> Users of the Bureau of Land Management's General Land
> Office Automated Records System (on-line or CD-ROM)
> may order land entry case files of patented entries by
> completing a NATF Form 84. The following information
> should be included: name of patentee, state, land
> office name, title authority or land entry type (cash,
> Homestead Act, etc.), and document number.
>
>
> Patentee name
> State of land entry
> Land office
> Authority (Bounty land warrant, Homestead, Cash entry,
> etc.)
> Document number
>
> Due to the large volume of requests for land entry
> case files, requests that include several individual
> case files will be segmented and answered in groups of
> reasonable size.
>
> In addition to the land entry case files associated
> with the patents on the General Land Office Automated
> Records Project series, NARA has case files for other
> types of Federal land entries made in eastern public
> land states. These include private land claims,
> entries made under the credit acts before 1820, bounty
> land warrants, canceled or relinquished Homestead Act
> entries, etc. NARA also has case files for land
> entries made in the seventeen western public land
> states.
>
> The information needed for a NARA search of these
> records is:
>
>
> land entryman's (ancestor's) full name
> State in which he or she acquired land
> land acquired before 1908 or after 1908 (choose one)
> patent, final certificate, or document number
> land entry type (bounty land warrant, homestead, case
> entry, etc.)
>
>
> I hope this is of some assistance.
>
> Sincerely,
> Kathy Flynn
>
>
>
>
>
> --- Debbie Carder <> wrote:
>
>> Lesson 9 of the NGS Homestudy Course is about
>> federal land grants. One of the places it suggests
>> searching to see if you had an ancestor with federal
>> land grant property is the Bureau of Land Management
>> records website. Then you are to order the full
>> case file from NARA to do the assignment. I found
>> my ancestor's land patent on
>> http://www.glorecords.blm.gov. but when I read the
>> guide to federal land records on NARA's website, I
>> did not see the act mentioned on my ancestor's
>> patent. I am not sure which NARA form to use; the
>> bounty land warrant app or the land entry files app.
>> I'm sure that it is probably bounty land but the
>> act on the land is not one that is listed. My
>> ancestor's patent was under the authority of the
>> Scrip Warrant Act of 1790 (1 Stat. 82), August 10,
>> 1790. It was for land in Ohio. He served in the War
>> of 1812 but the Scrip Warrant Act of 1790 is not
>> listed in NARA's guide under War of 1812 bounty land
>> and I didn't see it listed anywhere else in the
>> guide!
>> . Can anyone tell me which form I need to use?
>> Thanks.
>> Debbie Carder Mayes
>>
>>
> http://allencogenealogysociety.homestead.com/Main.html
>>
>> www.tribalpages.com/tribes/deb6102
>>
>> www.tribalpages.com/tribes/dac6102
>>
>> www.rootsweb.com~ohallen/
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> .
>>
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