Preliminary Checklist, Part 2: Southern Land Records: State by State
LOUISIANA
__Spanish Land Grants
__Land Grant Frauds
__Federal Land Descriptions and Divisions
__Large Plantations
__Salt Rolls
Trade with Indian Tribes
__Panton, Leslie, Forbes Grants and Papers (See Coker and Watson, Indian Traders…University of West Florida, 1986). Over 10,000 documents on microfilm, other records collected from Spain, England, Scotland, France, Mexico, and Canada.
KENTUCKY
__Stations and stockades on 600-acre Grants
__400-acre Pre-emptions (Scots-Irish influence), A List of Lands Claimed by Settlers and Pre-emptioners in District of Kentucky (incl WV, VA, PA) FHL#0007811, item 2
__1,000-acre Pre-emptions
__Local Censuses, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, recorded with Tax Rolls
__Draper Papers, include early settlements, FHL 147 microfilm reels
__Shane Papers, Scots-Irish Family and Presbyterian Church Histories and Records, FHL 36 microfilm reels. Guide to Shane Manuscript Collections by William K. Hall.
__Military Bounty Land Grants that Span the Ohio River
__Land Processioning Minutes and Accounts
__Early Land Entries in Kentucky, 1779-1817 FHL 6 microfilm reels (Lincoln and Fayette counties, military entries, May’s Entries)
__List of Delinquent Kentucky Landowners, 1796-1806, FHL# 174950
__Headright Warrants, 1827-1849 FHL# 272874
GEORGIA
__Land Lotteries
__Military Bounty Lands awarded to Hessian Troops by George Washington, Green County
__Index to Headrights and Bounty Grants of Georgia, 1756-1909
__Researcher’s Library of Georgia History, Genealogy, and Record Sources, 2 vols. by Robert Scott Davis
__1862 Georgia Salt Rolls ed Sherry Harris
__Bounty Lands, awarded for Revolutionary War Service in any State
__Yazoo Land Frauds
__Large Plantations
__Deeds include Migration Patterns from Ireland, Scotland, England, Wales
FLORIDA
__Spanish Land Grant Archives, 1764-1849
__Index to Spanish West Florida Archives, 1782-1810
__East and West Florida
__Large Plantations
__Runaway Slaves: Blacks, Indians
__Women in Florida Parishes, 1780-1971, FHL 5 microfilm reels (incl LA, MS)
__Pintado Papers, 1795-1842 FHL 3 microfilm reels (LA, FL)
ALABAMA-MISSISSIPPI
__Federal Land Grants, Rectangular Survey
__Federal Military Forts
__Indian Reservations
__New York Land Developers
__Ganderrud Collection, Indexes to County Records, ca 250 vols
__TVA Relocation Files, 1934-1954 FHL 16 microfilm reels
__Mississippi Land Papers and Secret Militia Rolls, 1788, ed Winston deVille
This is a Preliminary Checklist for the Southern States Land Records: State by State. I will add to it from time to time and post those additions on this blog. If you know of land processes or records that were created and preserved by jurisdictions other than the county, please share so that we can all benefit from those sources. In the South, you need all the records you can find! Your favorite Virginia genealogist, Arlene Eakle http://arleneeakle.com
PS If any of you, gentle readers, have a question, I have actual examples of every record and process listed above–including the Kentucky censuses taken by the local marshals at the time the Federal Censuses were taken. They accepted the Federal government’s invitation to gather additional data when the Federal census was taken–some of it three pages worth for each tax payer.
PPS Records on microfilm at the Family History Library can be borrowed on loan through thousands of local research centers. The microfilm projects may also be available at genealogy and university libraries “close to home” nearby where you live. Check your local resources first.