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=== Land Grants === | === Land Grants === | ||
From the "Foreword" to ''Tennessee Land: Its Early History and Laws'':<br> | |||
<blockquote>Tennessee is considered a "metes and bounds" state. However, a large portion of it was also set apart in townships and ranges as in public-land states. Tennessee litigated its boundaries with neighboring states until the mid-19th Century. North Carolina and Virginia both claimed portions of Tennessee prior to its statehood. Its eastern lands made up the largest part of the short-lived State of Franklin. Tennessee had to honor North Carolina's unresolved land grants for many years following statehood, and Tennessee was unable to grant its own lands for the first ten years of its existence. </blockquote><blockquote>Tennessee land (primarily grants) was the basis of the worst land fraud scheme in the history of the United States.</blockquote><blockquote>[McNamara, Billie R. (1996). [http://tngenealogy.net/books/ Available from the author].]<br> </blockquote> | |||
Original warrants, surveys, grants, and North Carolina land records are at the [[Tennessee State Library and Archives]]. Additional land records are at the Tennessee Historical Society and the local county courthouses. | Original warrants, surveys, grants, and North Carolina land records are at the [[Tennessee State Library and Archives]]. Additional land records are at the Tennessee Historical Society and the local county courthouses. | ||
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Tennessee Valley Authority (Tennessee). ''Tennessee Population Relocation Files, 1934–1954'', Tennessee Valley Authority. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1996. Originals are at the National Archives Record Office, East Point, Georgia. (On 34 Family History Library films beginning with [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=760634&disp=Tennessee+population+relocation+files%2C++ 2033011].) The record contains the name of the head of family, wife, address, marital status, birthplace of parents, number and ages of children, occupation, brief description of the real estate, and religion. | Tennessee Valley Authority (Tennessee). ''Tennessee Population Relocation Files, 1934–1954'', Tennessee Valley Authority. Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1996. Originals are at the National Archives Record Office, East Point, Georgia. (On 34 Family History Library films beginning with [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=760634&disp=Tennessee+population+relocation+files%2C++ 2033011].) The record contains the name of the head of family, wife, address, marital status, birthplace of parents, number and ages of children, occupation, brief description of the real estate, and religion. | ||
The laws of North Carolina (and, subsequently, Tennessee) permitted land instruments to be recorded in '''any''' Register's Office in the state. Record books at the Register's Office for Hawkins County, for example, contain scores of North Carolina grants for land all over the state. For a discussion and abstract of those grants, see | |||
*McNamara, Billie R. ''Hawkins County, Tennessee Land Grant Books 1 & 2, 1787-1819''. Knoxville, Tenn.: B.R. McNamara, 1996. [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=744933&disp=Hawkins+County%2C+Tennessee+land+grant+b%20%20&columns=*,0,0 FHL US/CAN Book 976.895 R29m]. [http://tngenealogy.net/books/ Available from the author]. | |||
=== North Carolina Revolutionary War Warrants === | === North Carolina Revolutionary War Warrants === | ||