| | Book | Requires cookie* | | 1 | Title: | The origin and customs of English manors: with an account of feudal rights and privileges in the American colonies
| | | | Creator: | Richardson, Hester DorseyMrs | | | | Publication: | s.n.], New York,1913. | | | | Notes: | "Summary of minutes and New York membership list." Roll of honorary members tipped in. | | | | Call #: | E189 R521 | | | | Extent: | 32 p. ; 22 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Manors | Land grants -- United States
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 3 | Title: | Reports of the Committees on Private Land Claims of the Senate and House of Representatives: from the Second session of the Nineteenth Congress to the close of the First session of the Forty-fourth Congress
| | | | Creator: | United States Congress. | | | | Publication: | G.P.O, Washington,1879. | | | | Notes: | At head of title: 45th Congress, 3d session. Senate. Mis. doc. 81. Library owns Part I - Senate reports. LA3599-206 Location: 206.5 top shelf. | | | | Call #: | LA3599-206 | | | | Extent: | 2 v. ; 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Land grants -- United States | Public lands -- United States
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 5 | Title: | Documents Signed by Presidents of the United States
| | | | Creator: | Documents Signed by Presidents of the United States | | | | Dates: | 1803-1875 | | | | Abstract: | The collection consists of land grants and appointments signed by the following United States Presidents, or their secretaries: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, John Tyler, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, and Ulysses S. Grant. | | | | Call #: | MS 0940 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Land grants -- United States. | Presidents -- United States -- Autographs. | United States -- Officials and employees -- Selection and appointment.
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| Book | Requires cookie* | | 7 | Title: | A new collection of laws, charters and local ordinances of the governments of Great Britain, France and Spain: relating to the concessions of land in their respective colonies, together with the laws of Mexico and Texas on the same subject, to which is prefixed Judge Johnson's translation of Azo and Manuel's Institutes of the civil law of Spain
| | | | Creator: | White, Joseph M., 1781-1839 | | | | | Jordâan de Assâo y del Râio, Ignacio, 1742-1804 | | | | | Manuel y Rodrâiquez, Miguel de, fl. 1780 | | | | | Great Britain | | | | | France | | | | | Spain | | | | | Mexico | | | | | Texas | | | | Publication: | T. & J.W. Johnson, Philadelphia [Pa.],1839. | | | | Notes: | Spine title: White's recopilacion. Includes index. | | | | Call #: | HD1143 W5 | | | | Extent: | 2 v. ; 23 cm. | | | | Subjects: | Land tenure -- Law -- United States | Law -- Spain | Land grants -- United States | Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration | France -- Colonies -- Administration | Spain -- Colonies -- Administration
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| Manuscript Collection | Requires cookie* | | 9 | Title: | Virginia Military District in Ohio Papers
| | | | Creator: | Anderson, Richard Claugh | | | | Dates: | 1787-1839 | | | | Abstract: | Richard Clough Anderson (1750-1826) was the Surveyor-General of the Virginia Military District, an area located between the Scioto and Little Miami Rivers in Ohio. The District and other land in Kentucky was granted to Virginia by Congress in 1784 to settle its claims to the Northwest Territory and reward its veterans of the American Revolution. The collection consists of seven entry books, ca. 4400 to 4800 surveys, and an index to entries, referring to land in the Virginia Military District lying between the Scioto and Little Miami Rivers in Ohio, which was surveyed under the direction of Anderson, his son-in-law, Allen Latham, and his son, William Marshall Anderson. Includes personal papers of Dr. R.G. Lewis of Madiosonville, Ohio, and miscellaneous papers of Allen Latham. | | | | Call #: | MS 3050 | | | | Extent: | 4.80 linear feet (10 containers and 3 oversize volumes) | | | | Subjects: | Anderson, Richard Clough, 1750-1826. | Surveying -- Ohio. | Surveyors -- Ohio. | Bounties, Military -- United States. | Land grants -- United States. | Real property -- Ohio. | Ohio -- Surveys. | Virginia Military District -- Surveys.
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