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=== Land Grants === | === Land Grants === | ||
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><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> | <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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Kentucky. Governor. ''Grants South of Walker’s Line.'' Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1962. (Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=242509&disp=Grants+south+of+Walker%27s+line++ 272869–73].) This record contains land grants given by the state of Kentucky for land in the state of Tennessee. | Kentucky. Governor. ''Grants South of Walker’s Line.'' Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1962. (Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=242509&disp=Grants+south+of+Walker%27s+line++ 272869–73].) This record contains land grants given by the state of Kentucky for land in the state of Tennessee. | ||
A list of preemptions can be found in: | |||
*Griffey, Irene, compiler. ''The Preemptors: Middle Tennessee's First Settlers''. Clarksville: P.p., 1989. (Family History Library Book 976.8 R2g.) Notes if grants were made to the resident (at the time that the commissioners visited in 1782-3) or to an assignee.<br> | |||
A source for finding families and communities that were relocated during the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) project is: | A source for finding families and communities that were relocated during the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) project is: | ||