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Along the Ohio Trail

A short history of Ohio lands.

Ancestry.com - Search Tax, Criminal, Land & Wills

Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

Genealogy Quest - Ohio Company Land Grants, 1793 Updated

A list of the Ohio Company land grants of 1793, taken from The Records of the Original Proceedings of the Ohio Company.

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.

Ohio Land and Property | Learn | FamilySearch.org

The Bureau of Land Management -- Eastern States, General Land Office

The Official Land Patent Records Site. This site has a searchable database of over two million pre-1908 Federal land title records, including scanned images of those records. The Eastern Public Land States covered in this database are: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin.

The Official Ohio Lands Book

A history of the original land treaties, grants, surveys, and subdivisions.

WorldVitalRecords.com - Land Patents - Ohio $

The pre-1908 Ohio Land Records documents the transfer of land ownership from the federal government to individuals. This data can help genealogists associate an individual with a specific location, date and time to authenticate the title transfer and find clues to their family line. Individuals described in this set would be patentees, assignees, warrantees, widows or heirs of the transfer. The legal land description location is given, along with the issue date of the title transfer.