General land resources / Jackson County /
Nearby Counties / Indiana & Other States /
Land sales provide some of the major records for tracking ancestors.
Land records are useful for locating individuals in sparsely settled areas where early federal census takers may not have found and recorded them. Reading the introduction to each work with land records is useful in understanding the arrangement and what is included.
Jackson County deeds and deed indexes from 1816 to 1924 along with some swampland, probate and partition records are on microfilm at the Seymour Library.
GLO Land Patent Search (click on Search Land Patents at top just under page title)
US Geographic Names (click on Search Domestic Names on left for US searches)
Why the Midwest Is Square and other full-text articles on land surveying
Here are some of the books in the Seymour Library that tell about land records:
LH 929.3 KIR
The land records of America; Military records of America; Census records of America / E. Kay Kirkham.
973 LIN
The fabric of America : how our borders and boundaries shaped the country and forged our national identity /
Linklater, Andro.
Below are some of the land records indexed in the Local History Collection:
Plat directories for Jackson County, Indiana (mostly rural property owners):
1858, 1860, 1878, 1900, 1956 (missing), 1964, 1967 (missing), 1976, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2006
City & county directories with varying levels of detail:
1899 (also online), 1912, 1915 (also online), most other years for which a directory was published through the current directory.
County records on microfilm including deeds, partitions, probate records and wills.
LH 977.223 INDIANA JACKSON COUNTY
Jackson County pioneer homestead settlers: landowners by squatter rights, federal grants, private purchase / Loren W. Noblitt.
Bartholomew County
L H 977.224 BARTHCO LAND PATENT 2006
Family maps of Bartholomew County, Indiana : with homesteads, roads, waterways, towns, cemeteries, railroads, and more Deluxe ed., 1st ed. / Boyd, Gregory A. (Gregory Alan), 1960-
Jennings County
L H 977.217 JENNCO LAND PATENT 2006
Family maps of Jennings County, Indiana : with homesteads, roads, waterways, towns, cemeteries, railroads, and more 1st ed. /
Boyd, Gregory A. (Gregory Alan), 1960-
LOCAL HISTORY 977.217 JENNCO FARM 1961
Farm plat book with index to owners, Jennings County, Indiana /
4-H Clubs of Jennings County (Ind.).
Lawrence County
LOCAL HISTORY 912.77226 LAWRCO IN 1879 1879
An atlas of Lawrence County, Indiana: from actual surveys under the direction of B. N. Griffing.
Scott County
L H 977.2183 SCOTTCO LAND PATENT 2005
Family maps of Scott County, Indiana : with homesteads, roads, waterways, towns, cemeteries, railroads, and more Deluxe ed., 1st ed.
Boyd, Gregory A. (Gregory Alan), 1960-
1 copy available at Seymour Library in Local History
Washington County
L H 977.222 WASHCO LAND PATENT 2006
Family maps of Washington County, Indiana : with homesteads, roads, waterways, towns, cemeteries, railroads, and more Deluxe ed., 1st ed.
Boyd, Gregory A. (Gregory Alan), 1960-
Indiana and Other State Land Resources
LH 929.3 INDIANA
Indiana land entries. Vol. 1, Cincinnati District, 1801-1840 / Margaret R. Waters.
Indiana land entries. Vol. 2, Vincennes District. Part 1, 1807-1877 / Margaret R. Waters.
Indiana State Archives, Fort Wayne Land Office entries, 1823-1852 / Barbara Schull Wolfe.
LH 976.9 KENTUCKY
Kentucky land warrants for the French, Indian & Revolutionary Wars [1763-1793] / Kentucky Land Office.
LH 977.1 OHIO
Early Ohio settlers: purchasers of land in southwestern Ohio, 1800-1840 / Ellen T. Berry.
Early Ohio settlers: purchasers of land in southeastern Ohio, 1800-1840 / Ellen T. Berry.
Early Ohio settlers : purchasers of land in east and east central Ohio, 1800-1840 / Ellen T. Berry.
LH 977.1 OHIO LAND OWNERSHIP
First ownership of Ohio lands / by Albion Morris Dyer.
LH 974.8 PENNSYLVANIA
Early Pennsylvania land records: minutes of the Board of Property of the Province of Pennsylvania / from the Pennsylvania Land Office.
LH 929.3 FEDERAL LAND SERIES in 4 volumes.
Federal land series : a calendar of archival materials on the land patents issued by the United States Government, with subject, tract, and name indexes [1788-1810, 1799-1835, 1810-1814, & grants in the Virginia Military District of Ohio] Clifford Neal Smith.
These patents usually are not recorded at the county level and are for states outside the original thirteen. In many cases counties did not yet exist.
v1. 1788-1810: includes mainly British and French names; land included is from the current states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
v2. 1799-1835: Federal bounty-land warrants of the American Revolution granted in the United States Military District in Ohio .
v3. 1810-1814: continues volume 1 and includes more German names, reflecting the movement of Pennsylvania Germans moving west, rather than direct immigration from Germany.
v4. 1799-1835: Virginia grants to veterans of the American Revolution in the Virginia Military District of Ohio.
LH CD-ROM 929.1 REVOLUTIONARY WAR
Revolutionary War pension and bounty-land warrant index [electronic resource] / from Generations Archives.
July 2008