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• Genealogy Quest - Ohio Company Stockholders, 1796

  In 1786 a group of Revolutionary War veterans formed the Ohio Company of Associates to take advantage of the new Land Ordinance Act governing the sale of land in the Western Territory. Among these stockholders are the earliest Ohio settlers.

• Georgia Archives

  • Land Lotteries

    • 1805

    • 1807

    • 1820

    • 1821

    • 1827

    • 1832

  • Militia Districts

• Georgia's Land Lottery

• Georgia's Virtual Vault - Headright and Bounty Plats

• GSC Associates Second Surveyor's District Products $

  On-line access to searches of the 9,091 surveys in the 2nd District, plus on-line ordering of copies of surveys. The Records of the Second Surveyor's District of Middle Tennessee.

• ICPR: Land Records

  Indiana. A variety of online searchable databases from the Indiana Commission on Public Records.

  • Land Records at the State Archives

    • Fort Wayne Database Search Page

    • Fort Wayne Land Office Entries, 1823 - 1852

    • General Land Office Index

    • Hoosier Homestead Award Database

      Database of Indiana farms which have been in the same family for over 100 years. Over 3,000 farms are listed, the oldest dating from 1797

    • Indian Lands Noted on the Laporte-Winamac Land Office

    • Laport-Winamac Land Office Entries, 1833-1855

      A brief introduction to the database above.

    • Laporte-Winamac Database Search Page

    • The Indianapolis Donation

  • Land Records in Indiana

  • Major Land Record Collection Descriptions

• Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales

  Online searchable database of 550,000 land sales from the 54,740 square miles of the public domain sold within Illinois.

  • Search by Legal Description

  • Search by Name of Purchaser or Name of Purchaser in a Specified County

• Indiana Commission on Public Records - Indiana State Archives - Collections - Land Records - Overview of the Collections

  The State Archives contains a wide variety of land records. As Indiana was a public domain state, virtually every acre was surveyed and then sold or otherwise granted by the federal government before settlement. The only exceptions are the lands around Vincennes settled by the French and George Rogers Clark's Grant around Clarksville.

  • Fort Wayne, Indiana Land Office Database Search Page

  • Laporte/Winamac, Indiana Land Office Database Search Page

  • The Indianapolis Donation

• Iowa Land Records

  The mission of Iowa Land Records is to provide access to county and statewide land record and related information.

• Johnston County, North Carolina Public Records Search

  Digitized vital records, deed book images, and more.

• Kentucky Secretary of State Land Office

  Describes the land office process and includes historical images of the records involved.

  • Searchable Databases and Related Articles

    • Jackson Purchase

      Scanned image of the exact township location for 9,308 West of Tennessee River Non-Military Patents indexed by Willard R. Jillson.

    • Kentucky County Formations

      The complete text of the Acts of the Virginia General Assembly and the Acts of the Kentucky General Assembly creating all 120 Kentucky counties.

    • Kentucky Land Patents: County Court Orders Series

      Searchable online database of over 70,000 Kentucky land patents issued under the County Court Order Series.

    • Kentucky Land Patents: West of Tennessee River Military Series

      Searchable online database of 242 patents.

    • Revolutionary War Warrants

      Searchable online database indexes 4,748 bounty land warrants issued by Virginia to veterans of the Revolutionary War.

• Kit Carson County Land Registration Receipts 1913 - 1919

  Colorado.

• Land Claim Record Books, 1871-1894

  From the Utah State Libraries.

• Land Grants

  Online searchable database of land grants in Louisiana from the Acadian Memorial in St. Martinville.

• Land Office Patents and Grants Collection Index

  Electronic Card Indexes, Digital Collections Home Page, The Library of Virginia.

• Land patents of Washington County, Maryland (1730-1830)

  From Whilbr, Western Maryland Regional Library.

• Land Records - Becker County, Minnesota GenWeb

• Land Survey on the Great Plains

  With a simple explanation of terms, by Dick Taylor.

• Library of Virginia - About the Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants/Northern Neck Grant and Surveys

  This database consists of entries that index two major collections of land records housed in the Library of Virginia plus a small collection of field notes and plats of tracts surveyed by Guy Broadwater.

• Location Guide to the General Land Office Survey Plats

  A list of organizations that own GLO plats - both originals or copies.