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"Ohio Lands - A Short History"
Miscellaneous

 
NATIONAL ARCHIVES 
The National Archives and Records Administration, Suitland Reference 
Branch (NNRR), Suitland, Md. 20409 has original land entry records in its 
Record Group 49-Records of the Bureau of Land Management. Major 
record series within this group are: Credit and Cash Entry files (Final 
Certificates), Bounty Land Warrant Records and Warrants exchanged for 
scrip. These records often contain more information than the U.S. Patent. 
The cost is reasonable with no research charges. To access the Credit and 
Cash entry files, send the entry data provided by the State of Ohio Archives, 
1982 Velma Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43211-2497 to the BLM, Eastern 
State's Office. Request BLM to provide you the type of file and the land 
entry file number listed in their Tract Books for the entry. Send the 
combined information to the National Archives Suitland Reference Branch.

Federal Bounty Land application files are found in Records Series 15, 
Records of the Veterans Administration, write National Archives, Military 
Reference Branch (NNRM), Washington, D.C. 20408, for request forms and 
current charges.

BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT 
The State of Ohio Archives does not have copies of U.S. Patents or 
warrants. However, the State Archives will provide the entry information 
needed to obtain these records. To obtain a copy of the U.S. Patent issued 
for land in the Virginia Military District, first write to the National Archives, 
Suitland Reference Branch (NNRR). Provide them the entry/survey number, 
date of entry/survey, warrant number, warrantee, and name of assignee. 
Request the patent volume and page number which is on the entry record. 
With the information National Archives provides, write to the Bureau of 
Land Management (BLM), Eastern States Office, 7450 Boston Blvd., 
Springfield, Virginia 22153-3121. A copy of a U.S. Patent costs $15.

U.S. Patents for land designed by Range, Township, and Section, should be 
requested directly from the BLM Eastern States Office. Be sure to provide 
BLM the entry data and legal description.

DEED RECORDS 
The county recorder in each county maintains deed, mortgage and lease 
records. Ohio's 88 counties evolved over a period of 63 years. Researchers 
may have to search the land records of several counties for real estate 
transactions prior to 1851. It is not unusual to find deeds filed 20 years or 
more after the purchase date.

DEEDS FROM THE STATE OF OHIO 
Copies of nearly all deeds for lands sold by the state of Ohio, from 1837 to 
the present day, are recorded in the Auditor of State's Land Office, which is 
the office of Record. Included are deeds conveying school, ministerial, 
swamp, salt reservations, canal lands and miscellaneous. Index is 
alphabetical by surname, given name, and contains about 23,000 cards. 
Write the Auditor of State's Land Office, 35 E. Gay Street, 1st Floor, 
Columbus, Ohio 43215.

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(c) 1994 by the Ohio Auditor of State
All Rights Reserved. FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION ONLY.
Researched and written by Thomas Aquinas Burke
Internet Address F491.3 B86 1994 977.1 
Eighth Edition - September 1996

"Ohio Lands - A Short History"
ReTyped & Graphics Rescanned December 1997
by Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman
Email at http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00015.html#0003643

This booklet is available on the Auditor of State home page under Publications 
at: http://www.auditor.ohio.gov/auditor/

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