| Display title | Grants to Land Companies and Railroads |
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| Date of page creation | 13:46, 19 August 2008 |
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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | To encourage settlement of large tracts of land, many colonies and states allowed land speculators, often organized as land companies, to purchase large tracts of land for resale to settlers. Records of these transactions may be difficult to obtain. They may have remained in private possession, or have been deposited in a state, local, or private archives or historical society. Some have also been published. The FamilySearch Library has copies of some of these records (especially the published sources) such as the Susquehannah Company Papers. Land company records are generally listed in the Place Search of the FamilySearch Catalog under [STATE] - LAND AND PROPERTY.[1] |