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Case files can include a variety of record types. Military bounty land case files will have different kinds of records than homesteads, cash entries, mining, or timberland cases. ''For example'', | Case files can include a variety of record types. Military bounty land case files will have different kinds of records than homesteads, cash entries, mining, or timberland cases. ''For example'', | ||
:*'''Military bounty land''' case files can include warrants, treasury certificates, exchange certificates, and applications. | :*'''''Military bounty land ''''' case files can include warrants, treasury certificates, exchange certificates, and applications.<ref name="Hone">E. Wade Hone, ''Land and Property Research in the United States'' (Salt Lake City, Utah : Ancestry Pub., c1997), 115-26. {{WorldCat|483096407|item|disp=At various repositories (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|766994|item|disp=FHL Book 973 R27h}}.</ref> | ||
:*'''Cash entry''' may include an application, receipt, warrant for survey, survey, testimonies, affidavits, newspaper notifications, | :*'''''Cash entry ''''' may include an application, receipt, warrant for survey, survey, testimonies, affidavits, newspaper notifications, naturalization papers, final certificate, and patent.<ref>Hone, 111-13, and 127-18.</ref><br> | ||
In addition to the case file, | '''Variation over time.''' Case file contents varied over time. Case files before 1840 usually listed only the entryman, location, acreage, price, date, and place of the land entry. | ||
'''Land descriptions.''' Case file land descriptions use the terminology of the [[Rectangular surveys|rectangular survey]] system, including sections, townships, and ranges. | |||
'''Tract book entries.''' In addition to the case file, a related entry would always be made in the appropriate [[Tract books|tract book]]. Tract books are arranged by state, land office, township number, range number, and section number. | |||
=== How to obtain a case file === | === How to obtain a case file === | ||