Only Virginia and Connecticut continued to claim specific areas of Ohio land after 1787. Prior to the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, the colonies of Connecticut, Virginia, New York, and Massachusetts all had claim on land that is now part of Ohio. The rectangular land survey system (section, township, and range), established by the Land Ordinance of 1785, was first applied to federal land grants in Ohio. This was the first public domain land ever made available for private ownership. Land in Ohio was transferred to private ownership by state and federal land grants. Ohio map: major grants, tracts, districts or cessions. Land records can be used to learn where and when an individual lived in certain areas, as well as often revealing useful and interesting family information. Therefore it is a consistent and continuous record of many ancestors lives. The value of land records lies in the fact that land was highly sought after and the transactions were recorded from the time settlers began to arrive.
Pre-1908 Ohio, Homestead and Cash Entry Patents, Pre-1908 at Ancestry - index ($).See United States Land and Property for more databases and resources.
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