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From the "Foreword" to ''Tennessee Land: Its Early History and Laws'':<br> | 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><br><blockquote>Tennessee land (primarily grants) was the basis of the worst land fraud scheme in the history of the United States.</blockquote><br><blockquote>[McNamara, Billie R. (1996). [http://tngenealogy.net/books/ Available from the author].]</blockquote> | :<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><br><blockquote>Tennessee land (primarily grants) was the basis of the worst land fraud scheme in the history of the United States.</blockquote><br><blockquote>[McNamara, Billie R. (1996). [http://tngenealogy.net/books/ Available from the author].], Also available at the Family History Library,{{FHL|656060|item}}, book 976.8 R2m or film 2055421 Item 2</blockquote> | ||
<br> | <br>Another good article and map to view is Frederick Smoot's [http://www.tngenweb.org/tnland/survdist.htm "Tennessee's Early Surveyors' Districts and District Boundary Documentation 1806-1836"] . | ||
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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All except the Walker’s Line series of land grant records are in: | All except the Walker’s Line series of land grant records are in: | ||
Tennessee. Governor. ''Land Grants, 1775–1905, 1911''. Nashville, Tennessee: Tennessee State Library and Archives, 1976. | Tennessee. Governor. ''Land Grants, 1775–1905, 1911''. Nashville, Tennessee: Tennessee State Library and Archives, 1976. {{FHL|351626|item}}; there are 229 beginning with film 1002725. Indexes are included in some volumes and many years are mixed. Some volumes are missing. The land grants are completely indexed in: | ||
Sistler, Byron. ''Tennessee Land Grants, Surnames''. 17 Volumes. Nashville, Tennessee: Byron Sistler, 1997. (Family History Library book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=644770&disp=Tennessee+land+grants%2C+surnames++ 976.8 R2s; 24 fiche beginning with 6039091.)] This work provides an alphabetical listing of surnames listing the year of the grant, acreage, district, where the grant is located, book and page number, the grant number, and any additional grantees. | Sistler, Byron. ''Tennessee Land Grants, Surnames''. 17 Volumes. Nashville, Tennessee: Byron Sistler, 1997. (Family History Library book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=644770&disp=Tennessee+land+grants%2C+surnames++ 976.8 R2s; 24 fiche beginning with 6039091.)] This work provides an alphabetical listing of surnames listing the year of the grant, acreage, district, where the grant is located, book and page number, the grant number, and any additional grantees. | ||