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Early Settlers in Jefferson County Ohio{Source, Federal Land Series, Vol. 1, 1788 – 1810, index to Steubenville, by Clifford N. Smith.} The purpose of the Federal Land Series is to calendar and index part of the great mass of archival material on the early land grants of the United States, thus making the material available to historians, genealogical researchers, and land title guarantors. Emphasis is placed upon the land patents- the first transfers of title from governmental (mainly federal) entities to private persons – for land in states other than the thirteen original ones. Since much of the land was granted for military service in the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, military bounty-land warrants are basic documents upon which many patents were granted; as a consequence, these warrants become of interest in this series.
More about the Federal Land Series The following microcopy numbers are available for research purposes along with a description of what the copy contains:
Some of the schedules received from persons authorized to sell lands in the Seven Ranges (eastern Ohio) at public auction. The first such auction was held at New York between 24 October and 3 December, 1796. Sales schedules for both of these auctions were long overlooked and the custodians of land records in the National Archives did not know their whereabouts. A search for them was made and both have been found. There was a reference to a third public auction of land at Philadelphia, probably held concurrently with the Pittsburgh sale, but the original sales record has not been found to date. |
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