Alabama Land Patents Database: Covington County - Surnames Beginning A-C Contributed by Joy Fisher and Tina Vickery Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm These land records represent the transfer of public lands to private ownership. In most cases they represent purchase of the land by individuals from the United States Government. Others are the result of homesteading, Indian cessions or treaties, or bounty lands given to military veterans. This database of more than 330,000 records can be browsed and is based on the original raw database of the General Land Office, a precursor to the Bureau of Land Management. The BLM is in the process of scanning and putting on- line all of these records for you to see and print out for your own use. http://www.glorecords.blm.gov The database this introduction is appended to may contain errors the BLM has corrected as they double checked every record while scanning the documents. Once you have found an entry of interest in this database, be sure to double check it against the BLM web site. The county designation in this database represents what county the land is in today, not what county it was at the time the individual took possession of the land, as county boundaries have changed many times over the years. You can view current county maps at the University of Alabama web site: http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/counties/ A 1915 AL map published by the General Land Office showing the township and range numbers for the entire state http://www.usgwarchives.net/maps/alabama/statemap/alabama1915.jpg Last Name First Name MI SECTION TOWNSHIP RANGE MERIDAN_CD TOTAL_ACRE SIGN_DATE REMARKS AGERTON LULU 23 6N 20W TALLAHASSEE 0 1899/09/07 AGERTON LULU 23 6N 20W TALLAHASSEE 0 1899/09/07 ATTWELL LAVINIE 30 6N 22W TALLAHASSEE 168.99 1904/12/31 CANCELED DOCUMENT ATTWELL LAVINIE 19 6N 22W TALLAHASSEE 0 1904/12/31 CANCELED DOCUMENT ATTWELL LAVINIE 19 6N 22W TALLAHASSEE 0 1904/12/31 CANCELED DOCUMENT ATTWELL LAVINIE 19 6N 22W TALLAHASSEE 0 1904/12/31 CANCELED DOCUMENT ATTWELL LAVINIE 30 6N 22W TALLAHASSEE 0 1904/12/31 CANCELED DOCUMENT ATWELL LIVINIE 19 6N 22W TALLAHASSEE 0 1905/06/28 FORMERLY LIVINIE CADENHEAD ATWELL LIVINIE 19 6N 22W TALLAHASSEE 0 1905/06/28 FORMERLY LIVINIE CADENHEAD ATWELL LIVINIE 30 6N 22W TALLAHASSEE 0 1905/06/28 FORMERLY LIVINIE CADENHEAD ATWELL LIVINIE 30 6N 22W TALLAHASSEE 168.99 1905/06/28 FORMERLY LIVINIE CADENHEAD ATWELL LIVINIE 19 6N 22W TALLAHASSEE 0 1905/06/28 FORMERLY LIVINIE CADENHEAD BAGGETT FRED 24 6N 24W TALLAHASSEE 152.25 1899/02/06 BAGGETT SARAH 27 6N 23W TALLAHASSEE 76.74 1904/07/02 BALKOM NEWTON A 24 6N 20W TALLAHASSEE 140.78 1899/09/07 BALKOM NEWTON A 23 6N 20W TALLAHASSEE 0 1899/09/07 BEDSOLE SARAH E 26 6N 23W TALLAHASSEE 0 1900/11/12 BEDSOLE SARAH E 26 6N 23W TALLAHASSEE 0 1900/11/12 BEDSOLE SARAH E 23 6N 23W TALLAHASSEE 145.61 1900/11/12 BEDSOLE SARAH E 23 6N 23W TALLAHASSEE 0 1900/11/12 BROWN ALBERT A 25 6N 20W TALLAHASSEE 93.78 1902/04/08 CARTER ELIZABETH 21 6N 22W TALLAHASSEE 0 1896/12/22 CARTER ELIZABETH 21 6N 22W TALLAHASSEE 0 1896/12/22 CARTER ELIZABETH 21 6N 22W TALLAHASSEE 168.39 1896/12/22 CARTER ELIZABETH 21 6N 22W TALLAHASSEE 0 1896/12/22 CAWTHON LOUIS H 26 6N 21W TALLAHASSEE 151.2 1890/03/19 CAWTHON WILLIAM A 30 6N 24W TALLAHASSEE 185.28 1904/07/02 CAWTHON LOUIS H 23 6N 21W TALLAHASSEE 0 1890/03/19 CAWTHORN LOUIS H 24 6N 21W TALLAHASSEE 137 1884/11/13 COCKROFT JAMES T 20 6N 20W TALLAHASSEE 0 1891/06/30 COCKROFT JAMES T 21 6N 20W TALLAHASSEE 147.5 1891/06/30 COX ELIJAH C 28 6N 21W TALLAHASSEE 40.46 1897/07/27 CREARY JAMES E 22 6N 24W TALLAHASSEE 127.25 1889/12/28 CREARY JAMES E 23 6N 24W TALLAHASSEE 137 1889/12/28 CREARY JAMES E 21 6N 24W TALLAHASSEE 115 1889/12/28 CREARY JAMES E 20 6N 24W TALLAHASSEE 99.75 1889/12/28 CREARY JAMES E 19 6N 24W TALLAHASSEE 86 1889/12/28 CREARY JAMES E 26 6N 24W TALLAHASSEE 126.95 1889/12/28 CREARY JAMES E 27 6N 24W TALLAHASSEE 140.5 1889/12/28 CREARY JAMES E 28 6N 24W TALLAHASSEE 153.16 1889/12/28 CREARY JAMES E 29 6N 24W TALLAHASSEE 166.26 1889/12/28 CREARY JAMES E 30 6N 24W TALLAHASSEE 87.73 1889/12/28