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Arkansas Land Patents: County SeriesCounty Names A - C Click here to return to Land Records page What are land patents? All of what is now Arkansas was once owned by the federal government--it is a public domain land state. People who purchased land from the federal government received documents called land patents. Land was obtained through purchase, military warrants, homesteads, scrip acts and other laws that allowed the land to be transferred out of federal hands. The paperwork generated in those sales can be very helpful to genealogists. Copies of the land patents make interesting additions to published family histories but the land entry case files are most apt to have helpful details about families or clues that help piece together information from other sources. What information is included? The county volumes of land patents list patentee's name, volume and page of the patent book, land office, document and miscellaneous document numbers, type of transaction, precise legal description, and number of acres. Introductory information describes in great detail how to get copies of the patents and land entry case files, how to use other land record sources, how to integrate the information with other sources, what is found in a typical homestead case file, where and when the Arkansas land offices operated, and a selected bibliography. County maps are also included. The time period covered by this information is earliest settlement through 30 June 1908. Information from 156,784 patent documents is included. These county volumes are based on current-day county boundaries. Arkansas Land Patents: County Series (granted from earliest times through 30 June 1908) Arkansas Land Patents: Eastern Arkansas Counties (Clay,
Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee, Mississippi,
Monroe, Phillips, Poinsett, and St. Francis Counties)
Arkansas Land Patents: Arkansas, Chicot, and Desha Counties
Arkansas Land Patents: Ashley County
Arkansas Land Patents: Baxter County
Arkansas Land Patents: Benton County
Arkansas Land Patents: Boone County
Arkansas Land Patents: Bradley County
Arkansas Land Patents: Calhoun County
Arkansas Land Patents: Carroll County ISBN 1-56546-009-X, 114 pages, $16.00 Arkansas Land Patents: Arkansas, Chicot, and Desha Counties
Arkansas Land Patents: Clark County
[Clay - see Eastern Arkansas volume] Arkansas Land Patents: Cleburne County
Arkansas Land Patents: Cleveland County ISBN 1-56546-012-X, 70 pages, $14.00 Arkansas Land Patents: Columbia County
Arkansas Land Patents: Conway, Faulkner, and Perry Counties
[Craighead County - see Eastern Arkansas volume] Arkansas Land Patents: Crawford County
[Crittenden County - see Eastern Arkansas volume] [Cross County - see Eastern Arkansas volume] Contact us: Arkansas Research, Inc., PO Box 303, Conway, AR 72033 |
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