OHIO STATEWIDE FILES - ENTRYMEN IN OHIO
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Reference to entrymen in second paragraph.
June

Land Records and Homestead

In official terms, a Land Grant is "Land conveyed by a government  to a
private party; document transferring title to land from a government to a
private party."

Homestead entry is "application initiated under the homestead laws which
provide for issuance of patents to entrymen who settle on and improve
agricultural public lands".

After the formation of the federal government, all land outside the original
13 states plus Maine, Vermont, Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia were
ceded to the government; this land was
called the public domain.

There are thirty public land states. The land was surveyed at the direction
of the Continental Congress. The lands surveyed first were to be available
for military bounties; the remaining lands were to be offered for sale to
the public.

The homestead act of 1862 replaced original sales/preemption
(had settled before it was opened for settlement)
with government giving land to settlers who had improved the land
and lived on it a certain amount of time.

A patent is the actual document which transfers title to land from the
federal government to a private party.