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Index & Information for Land Grants
Surnames A - Z
Special thanks to
June
White for compiling this collection.
Quote from Land Office Patents and
Grants:
"[These are]
recorded copies of those documents by which the Crown (between
1623-1774) and the Commonwealth (from 1779) transferred new land to
individual ownership. To receive land, an individual paid a specified
amount per acre and received a warrant which served as the authority by which
surveyors could lay out the requested land. After the survey was
completed, both the warrant and the survey were returned to the Land Office,
where after examination of the document, the patent or grant was issued.
The original was given to the landowner, and a copy was recorded in bound
registers."
Many of
these land grants may be viewed on the Library of
Virginia site. To view the following example for
yourself, follow these steps:
Go to:
http://www.ultranet.com/~deeds/landref.htm
1. Scroll down to Digital Library Collection. Click.
2. Scroll to Land Records. Click.
3. Click on Land Office Patents and Grants Index.
4. Click on Land Office Grants.
5. Scroll down to Boss. Click.
6. [example]: Type in 19 on Card Number for James
Bostick (below). James Bostick 30 Jun 1845
Tazewell County 140 a. On the waters of the Maiden
Spring fork of Clinch - Grants No. 96, p. 413
7. To retrieve the actual document, click on RETRIEVE
DOC.
8. Choose the correct number, then click on the
mini-document in the middle of your screen.
9. You can then look at the original document.
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