Land grants
Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:
Branscomb Family Papers
Letters, land grants, diplomas, certificates, scrapbook, daguerreotype, and other miscellaneous documents, as well as quilts and other textiles (including a wedding dress from the early 20th century)
Canebrake collection
Materials relating principally to the community of Dayton in Marengo County, Alabama. It includes land grants, the Dayton city code, town council minutes, and some family records.
Early Alabama Land Grants and Applications for Purchase
Applications for grants and for the purchase of land, mainly in Marengo and Washington counties in Alabama. There are also a few other legal documents pertaining to disputed applications.
Bird Griffin papers
Personal papers, mostly involving the activities of this Perry County farmer and justice of the peace.
Red River Land Survey
A set of surveyor's notes describing a tract of land along a "Red River," probably relating to a land grant, circa 1840.
Richard Parish Deed
A deed dated 14 December 1846, conveying 80 acres in Pike County, Alabama to William P. Segars.
Marlin Thrasher Papers
Legal documents and receipts, primarily from Fayette and Lamar Counties of west Alabama, covering much of the nineteenth century.
United States General Land Office records
This collection consists of ledgers containing: Land Commission correspondence; applications for land in Mississippi and Alabama territories; copies of land grants from England, France and Spain to residents in Mobile; marriage contracts; wills; and plats of grants, 1783-1813. Ledger 17 contains diary entries by James E. Henderson of Co. C, 12th Iowa Infantry, who was assistant provost marshall in Alabama in 1865. Several ledgers have been indexed by names.
U.S. Land Office at Montgomery, Alabama, July 1884, Commissioners' Land Selection Descriptions for the University of Alabama
Ledger page describing the land selected for the University of Alabama in 1884
William and Crawford L. Brown family papers
Documents relating to the Mississippi and Alabama plantations of the Brown family, including bills of sale for slaves; receipts for tool repair, clothing, dry goods; tax receipts listing the number of slaves; business letters; and various legal agreements and other court documents.