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Subject: Re: [ROWANROOTS] [changed subject: North Carolina land grants inTennessee]
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 23:24:04 EDT


As far as I know, the lists of land grants of North Carolina which were made
in Tennessee have not appeared on the internet. If they have, please
advise--I am always eager to learn, well, most things genealogical!!!

However, if you do a google.com search for North Carolina land grants, you
will see a list of several links, most authored by A. B. Pruitt.

Dr. Pruitt has compiled and published a number of books on land entries in
North Carolina. An entry is an initial step in claiming land, and many did
not follow through to the final steps, which took several years in some cases.

Margaret M. Hofmann has compiled and published a number of books on land
grants [as opposed to entries] issued in North Carolina.

I suggest you do this to find out more about these publications:

1) google.com for each author mentioned above. Learn what you can. Pruitt
has some explanatory notes in at least of one of the web sites.

2) Do a catalog search [author search is OK] on _www.familysearch.org_
(http://www.familysearch.org) for each of these authors.

The link to the catalog is on the right side of the opening screen. Click
on that and then choose place instead of author. Just type in either North
Carolina or Tennessee, one at a time, of course. Go down the list of topics to
Land Records. Also check out tax records. [Nearly everyone gets on the
latter lists, sooner or later.]

3. On familysearch.org -- the FHL catalog -- also do a Keyword search or a
Title search for *North Carolina land grants in Tennessee* (You might also
google.com for those search terms also.) A book or two on these land grants
in TN awarded by NC have been published some time ago.

The more you know about these resources, the more you will know where to
attempt to find your missing ancestors, particularly if they were land owners.
Land and economic reasons were some of the main reasons for migrating!!!

I find land records, particularly deeds, of great interest, and sometimes I
have been able to *paste together* families, particularly when there is
distribution of land or the sales proceeds of such among the heirs.

Happy hunting!!! (And take with a grain of salt those stories about
migrating with famous persons. Granted, a good many folks tagged along with Daniel
Boone, but they had to be rough and ready!!!! And not take a lot of STUFF
with themselves!!! As one genealogical lecturer states [not my words], There
was Injuns out there!! Boone lost one of his sons to hostile native Americans
while trekking to Kentucky, I understand.

E.W.Wallace
with a good many colonial North Carolinians in her lineage






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