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Karen
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To: "Expert Genealogy"<jha(a)atl.mindspring.com>
EXPERT GENEALOGY
Editor: Jeannette Holland Austin
Series: Land Sources
Subject: American State Papers - Laws
Date: April 1, 1999
In 1775 Continental Congress promised land to Revolutionary War veterans. Thus began the
Public Domain Laws. In 1785 they established a Rectangular Survey System (Northwest
Territory) which allowed the sale of land. All of the Public Domain had to be surveyed
before titles could be issued. In 1786, surveys were made of all townships north of the
Ohio River, with the first land sale occurring the following year. This system became the
standard for identifying and conveying title.
Even before the survey, settlers moved into the Public Domain, and waited to file claims.
So what happened to the land in the Public Domain which has previously been granted to
people by the French, Spanish and British Governments? Such private land claims had to be
validated by the US Government, and so commissions were established to evaluate such
claims. Many actions ended up in the federal courts.
Also, Indian claims had to be adjudicated before title could be granted. When settlers
filed entries under the Public Land Laws, conflicts occurred with those having the old
land grants. Appeals were presented to Congress, and records of these private relief
actions are contained in the American State Papers.
The land Private Land Claims which were determined to be valid by the claims commissioner
and federal courts are "first-title deeds" and were surveyed outside the
rectangular survey system. This means that the rectangular survey stops at the boundaries
of such private claims and legal titles.
Here is an example of what you would expect to find -
John Brown filed a claim in Florida to 95 acres that was first granted to Josiah Gray on
February 16, 1816, by Governor Coppinger. Gray then sold it to George Flemming in 1819,
who in turn sold the tract to Brown. This claim was supported by copies of deeds and
surveyed as claimed. The claims board confirmed the claim to Brown and his heirs on April
17, 1824.
Many claims were not approved. Such as the 1835 petition of Matthew Arbuckle for eight
tracts totaling 2132 acres in Arkansas. Arbuckle claimed that he purchased those tracts
from five individuals in 1829 in the Lawrence Land District, Arkansas Territory,
presenting copies of instruments claiming to transfer title to him. All of these parcels
were originally entered as Spanish Land Claims, which had been confirmed by land courts of
Arkansas Territory when he purchased them, and were described by the rectangular survey
system. Despite the evidence presented, his claim as denied. However, genealogical data
can be found in the claims.
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COUNTY, MARYLAND, 1774-1815 by Henry Downes Craner. 62 pp.,
paper (1904), repr. 1998. $22.50
Caroline County, on Maryland's Eastern Shore, was formed in 1774 from parts of Queen
Anne's and Dorchester counties, which now constitute Caroline's northern and
southern boundaries. It is bounded on the west by Talbot County and on the east by Kent
and Sussex Counties, Delaware, so it is indeed a county of genealogical significence. The
marriage licenses transcribed herein represent all those recorded during the forty years
immediately following Caroline's erection. The licenses were copied from the records
in the office of the Clerk of the County Court, and but one year - 1776 - is missing. The
listings are arranged chronologicaly and name over 4,000 brides and grooms with the men
named first. This material originally appeared in three issues, in 1904, of the
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography.
C9564. CHRONICLES OF COLONIAL MARYLAND With Illustrations by
James Walter Thomas. 334 pp., illus, map, paper. (1900),
repr. 1999. $40.00
Thomas' history of Maryland focuses upon a number of aspects of Maryland's
colonial history which, at the time of the book's original publication in 1900, had
received scant attention. Thus in the first chapter the author concentrates on St.
Clement's, Maryland, the precise place of the first landing in St. Mary's County.
In fact, a third of the book is devoted to Maryland's first capital, St. Mary's
City, and its surrounding county. Here the genealogist with 17th-century Maryland ancestry
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Church in Maryland, the Calverts and their descendants, Governor Calvert's manors,
early civil divisions, and more. In addition, a topographical map of St. Mary's City
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Jones, Ludwell, Marshall, Mason, Page, Randolph, Shepherd, Shippen, Tabb, Taylor,
Turbeville, Washington and others. By Edmund Jennings Lee. 586 pp., illus, indexed, paper.
(1895), repr.
1999. $55.00
The Lee family is composed of perhaps the most distinguished ancestry on record, having
provided, for example, greater numbers of Revolutionary and Civil War generals and
officers, politicians, and statesmen than any family of comparable size and standing.
Colonel Richard Lee, Secretary o f the Colony of Virginia and presumably a Counsellor to
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and other heraldic representations.
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Members, etc. by The Holland Society of New York. 924 pp.,
indexed, paper (1904-1927), repr. 1999. $75.00
Between 1904 and 1927, in eight separate Year Books, The Holland Society of New York
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lists of marriages, baptisms, and members of the Dutch community in the vicinity of
Albany. Established as early as 1642, this church was the center of one of the most
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both of migration and pioneer leadership throughout the entire period of westward
expansion. Thousands upon thousands left their traces in these church records.
C3620. THE BOOK OF NAMES. ESPECIALLY RELATING TO THE EARLY
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known as the "Gateway to the West". The estimated 20,000 names are classified,
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in relation to specific categories of records. Among the important lists of names are the
following: (1) The Kocherthal records of baptisms, marriages and deaths, 1708-1719 (2)
Palatine heads of families, from Gov. Hunter's Ration Lists, 1710-1714 (3) Lists of
Palatines in 1709 (the four London lists of emigrants from Germany, most who emigrated to
America (4) Palatines remaining and newly arrived in New York, from the colonial census of
1710 (5)
Names of Palatine children apprenticed by Gov. Hunter,
1710-1714 and (6) Various lists of Palatines in the colonial
militia of New York
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