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A glossary of [[Genealogical_Terms|genealogical terms]].  

Tellico land grants: Grants for lands ceded in 1805 to the United States government by the Cherokee Native Americans.<br>  

Townland, Ireland: A unit of land in Ireland that was a family holding. Townlands varied considerably in size but were on average about 350 acres. A townland is also a territorial division equivalent to a township.  

Township Papers, Canada<br>A collection of miscellaneous land records for Ontario. It contains some family information mentioned in correspondence. The records are not indexed, but they are arranged by township, concession, and lot number.  

Township Papers, Canada: A collection of miscellaneous land records for Ontario. It contains some family information mentioned in correspondence. The records are not indexed, but they are arranged by township, concession, and lot number.  

Township, Canada: A division of a county in Ontario, Nova Scotia, eastern Québec, and a few counties in Québec along the Ottawa River. Nova Scotia quit using townships over a hundred years ago, but most of Ontario and parts of Québec still use them. Some townships had their own municipal governments, although villages and towns within their boundaries may have been independent of them. Some townships were only parcels of land. In Québec, the word township is translated as canton. The Cantons de l'Est are the Eastern Townships of Québec, which are in counties lying north of the Vermont border. In Canada's Prairie Provinces (Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta) and in portions of British Columbia, townships are square blocks of land, six miles on a side. They are numbered north from the 49th parallel, which forms the boundary between Canada and the United States. Townships in western Canada never have their own governments.  

Township, governmental: A government with jurisdiction over a 36-square-mile area.  

Township, land: A piece of land that is six miles on each side. A township contains 36 square miles of land.  

Tract book: The official government records that contain the legal description of a piece of land and the names of the owners. One copy is sent to the federal government, and the other is kept by the local land office.  

Tract, land: A piece of land.  

Tract, publication: A short book or pamphlet on a particular topic, frequently a religious subject.  

Trade directory: An alphabetical list of persons engaged in the same trade or profession.  

Trade, land: The buying and selling of property.  

Trade, occupation: A skill an individual uses to earn a living.  

Trail of Tears: An exodus that occurred in 1838 when the United States government forced the Cherokee Native Americans to move from their lands in the Southeast to the Indian Territory, west of the Mississippi. The Cherokees called this march the Trail of Tears because so many of their people died along the way.  

Transcript, copy of records: A handwritten, typed, or printed copy of a document or set of records.  

Transcript, court records: A verbatim, written account of the proceedings of a trial or court hearing.  

Transcript, school: A student’s educational record.  

Transfer of property: The changing of land ownership from one person to another after the first land grant is given.  

Transfers of land between individuals: A land transaction that occurs after the original land grant has been issued from the government or a land company.  

Transported prisoner: A prisoner who was deported from Great Britain to America, Australia, or the West Indies.  

Trauungen: A German word for marriages.  

Treasury warrant: A warrant purchased from the state for a specific amount of vacant land.  

Treaty of Paris (1763): The treaty that ended the Seven Years War (French and Indian War) in 1763. This treaty gave the British the French colonies of Nova Scotia (formerly Acadia) and Québec (formerly New France). Britain returned Manila in the Philippines to Spain.  

Treaty of Utrecht (1713): A treaty signed in 1713 to end the War of Spanish Succession (Queen Anne's War). In this treaty, Phillip was acknowledged the king of Spain; France agreed that France and Spain would never unite under one crown; and Great Britain gained the islands of Gibralter and Minorca, a contract to supply all Spanish colonies in America with slaves, and territory in Canada (the land around Hudson Bay, Newfoundland, and the Nova Scotia region of Acadia). The Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI refused to sign the treaty, claiming that he was the heir to the Spanish throne. France and Austria continued to battle until 1714, when they signed the treaties of Rastatt and Baden, which confirmed most of the terms in the Treaty of Utrecht.  

Tresalvo: A term used in Catholic Church registers to describe a person from Spanish-speaking Latin America whose ancestry is African (1/4) and Spanish Caucasian (3/4). Racial classifications were often based on physical appearance or social status; therefore, they were not always accurate.  

Trespass: Illegal interference with one's person, property, or rights; also illegal entrance into private buildings or land.  

Trial Division of the Federal Court of Canada: A federal court in Canada that has jurisdiction over claims against the Crown and miscellaneous cases involving the Crown.  

Trial Division, Canada: A division of a provincial superior or supreme court in Canada. The Trial Division hears serious civil and criminal cases and has the authority to grant divorces. Also called Court of Queen's Bench.  

Tribal records: Records kept by tribes of Native Americans.  

Trolovelse: A Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian word for engagement (as in engagement to be married).  

Tuition: Guardianship over a child who is not old enough to marry.  

Tuscarora: A powerful tribe of Native Americans who originally lived in North Carolina. Upset by white settlers who were taking their land, the Tuscarora attacked white settlements in North Carolina on 22 September 1711. This bloody war ended in the tribe's defeat. Remaining tribe members joined the Iroquois League in New York and eventually moved to Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma.  

Tutelas: The Spanish term for guardianship records.  

Tutelle et curatelle: A French term for guardianship papers. These are records about orphans and the conservation of their property.  

Twin territories: A term that referred to both the Oklahoma and Indian Territories. These two territories were combined in 1907 to form the state of Oklahoma.  

Twitchell Archives: Land records compiled by Ralph E. Twitchell. They cover the years 1685 to 1898 and include land disputes, appeals, grants, wills, mine claims, and judgments. The records are in both English and Spanish.  

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