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Subject: Re: [MSCLAIBO-L] land records
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 16:16:00 -0700
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We've spent a fair amount of time looking at land records in Jefferson and Claiborne County, also a little in Adams. Apparently not all land transactions were recorded. We found land being sold that hadn't been bought according to the records, and land bought that didn't have a record of it being sold, although it certainly
must have been.

And this doesn't apply just to Mississippi. We've also searched land records in several other states, and the same condition applies. Indeed Pennsylvania was particularly bad. One title searcher chided another by saying, "Don't go back beyond 1800, or you'll only confuse yourself." Our results confirmed that assessment.
lucygilbert wrote:

> Where would I look for land records for the following 2 situations:
>
> 1. Beginning in 1836 on to 1852 William Prather, in partnership with Turnstall, of Turnstall and Co, merchants in Grand Gulf, MS. began selling off house lots in Grand Gulf--records properly recorded at the Courthouse.
> Now, where would I find when and how these men got possession of the land (city lots) that they sold? I checked the direct and reverse land deeds transactions from 1805 to 1850. I checked the url for the US Bureau of Land Claims.
> In one list provided by Joyce of persons with Spanish Land Grants in the Boyou Pierre area in 1792 appeared the name of James Prather. I found no record of this land changing hands.
> 2. I have a man ABRAHAM LOBDELL who married Malinda Mullins in Claiborne Co on 30 October 1819. In the 1830's there is a will of James Lobdell leaving his land in Claiborne and Boliver Co (Egypt Plantation) to his wife. Is this Abraham's son? If so, where did they get the land? I found no record of a land grant from US.
>
> Would someone who is familar with Grand Gulf tell me about the control of the land there and who granted it? Kate

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