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''[[United States|United States ]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Tennessee|Tennessee ]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Tennessee_Land_and_Property|Land and Property]]'' | ''[[United States|United States ]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Tennessee|Tennessee ]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Tennessee_Land_and_Property|Land and Property]]'' | ||
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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><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].]</blockquote> | ||
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*North Carolina land entries in what is now the State of Tennessee (beginning 1777) are held at the North Carolina State Archives. North Carolina continued issuing land entries in Tennessee even after it became a independent state, well into the 1820s. The following table presents MARS IDs for that facility, which will enable users to view free online abstracts of these records, using the instructions provided below the table: | *North Carolina land entries in what is now the State of Tennessee (beginning 1777) are held at the North Carolina State Archives. North Carolina continued issuing land entries in Tennessee even after it became a independent state, well into the 1820s. The following table presents MARS IDs for that facility, which will enable users to view free online abstracts of these records, using the instructions provided below the table: | ||
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*Whitney, Henry D. ''The Land Laws of Tennessee''<nowiki>:</nowiki>''Being a Compilation of the Various Statutes of North Carolina, the United States, and Tennessee, Relative to Titles to Lands Within the State of Tennessee from the Second Royal Charter to the Present Time; the Constitutional and Statutory Provisions Concerning the Establishment and Change of the Boundary of the State, and of Each County; Tables Showing the Date of Each Hiatus, Editorial Notes, etc., to Which is Added a Digest of the Leading Decisions on the Land Laws''. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1990. (Family History Library film [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=484033&disp=The+land+laws+of+Tennessee++ 1728776].) | *Whitney, Henry D. ''The Land Laws of Tennessee''<nowiki>:</nowiki>''Being a Compilation of the Various Statutes of North Carolina, the United States, and Tennessee, Relative to Titles to Lands Within the State of Tennessee from the Second Royal Charter to the Present Time; the Constitutional and Statutory Provisions Concerning the Establishment and Change of the Boundary of the State, and of Each County; Tables Showing the Date of Each Hiatus, Editorial Notes, etc., to Which is Added a Digest of the Leading Decisions on the Land Laws''. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1990. (Family History Library film [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=484033&disp=The+land+laws+of+Tennessee++ 1728776].) | ||
[[ | [[United States Land and Property|United States Land and Property]] describes government land grants, grants from states, and major resources, many of which include Tennessee. | ||
Other land and property resources can be located in the Locality Search of the Family History Library Catalog under: | Other land and property resources can be located in the Locality Search of the Family History Library Catalog under: | ||