Indiana Land and Property: Difference between revisions

=== Early Records  ===

:*United States Congress. ''American State Papers, Class 8: Public Lands''; Class 9: Claims: Documents, Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States. {{FSC|421351|item}}, book 973 R2ag 1994).  The American state papers include many of the private land claims for the early time period prior to statehood

:*McMullin, Phillip W. and United States Congress ''Grassroots of America : a computerized index to the American state papers: land grants and claims (1789-1837) with other aids to research (Government document serial set numbers 28 through 36)'' Greenville, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, 1994, c1990. {{FSC|690189|item}}, book 973 R2ag index 1990, fiche 6051323 (6 fiche). [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/369896 World Cat]

*English, William Hayden and Clark, George Rogers ''Conquest of the country northwest of the river Ohio, 1778-1783, and life of General George Rogers Clark : with numerous sketches of men who served under Clark and full list of those allotted lands in Clark's grant for service in the campaigns against the British posts, showing exact land allotted each'' Washington [District of Columbia] : L.C. Photoduplication Service, 1986. {{FSC|340293|item}}, film 1454567 items 3-4. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/172982721 World Cat.] Book on line at [http://books.google.com/books?id=-EgSAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=conquest+of+the+country+northwest+of+the+river+Ohio&hl=en&ei=bV2rTJOrKIe8sQOr9MifAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false Google books.]

*''WPA Card File'' The Work Projects Administration prepared an extensive card file of over 150,000 index cards many state-level land, court, and military records in the pre–1850 record series at the Archives Division, Commission on Public Records. This is only available to researchers at the [http://www.in.gov/icpr/2647.htm Indiana State Archives] in Indianapolis, Indiana. About 95 percent of the sources indexed cannot be identified easily.

*''Illinois and Wabash land company minutes, 1778-1812'' Salt Lake City, Utah : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1948. {{FSC|195782|item}}, film 20445 item 5.

*"On December 11, 1816 the U.S. Congress granted statehood to Indiana pursuant to the fulfilment of five provisions. One of the provisions granted four sections of land (2560 acres) for the establishment of a state capital with the condition that the location be decided prior to the public sale of federal lands surrounding the new capital. These four sections donated by the federal government to the new state became known as the Indianapolis Donation." - Indiana State Archives ''[http://www.in.gov/icpr/2617.htm An Introduction to the Indianapolis Donation]''.  The state archives has a [http://www.in.gov/icpr/2614.htm searchable database] on line.

*Henderson, J.O. ''Indiana, the public domain and its survey, 1892'' Indianapolis [Indiana] : Wm. B. Burford, 1893. {{FSC|461253|item}}, book 977.2 A1 no. 158. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/247589387 World Cat].

*The actual patents may be found on line at the [http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx Bureau of Land Management - General Land Office web site (BLM-GLO)] as indicated in the section on indexes.  They may also be found at the following office:

Also known as Land Entry Files or Patent Files, the case file is the accumulation of paperwork gathered during the land transactions which occurred when the land is transferred from the U.S. Government to private ownership and are kept at the National Archives in Washington D.C. These documents are the most helpful records for researchers because some files contain valuable information and may include personal or family information, such as military discharge papers, proof of citizenship, former residences, birthplaces and more. While not all files have pertinent information for the researcher, they are often worth obtaining.  For further information regarding case files and how to order them, you will want to read the article [[Grants from the Federal Government (Public Domain)#Locating_the_Land_and_it.27s_Associated_Records|''Locating the Land and it's Associated Records'']] at the United States Land and Property wiki page. The physical address of where the records are kept at the National Archives is as follows: