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What is this percentage column in the Virginia Land Tax Records?
The third column is the "Rate / acre" amount in shillings and pence.
(e.g. 10/ is 10 shillings and 0 pence. 7/6 would be 7 shillings and 6 pence ...)
There were 12 pennies in a shilling and 20 ...
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What was the Tennessee General Assembly Act passed November 2 1847 in reference to Land Grants?
I think the Act that you are looking for is probably An Act further to provide for the Occupant Settlers, south and west of the congressional reservation line, and for other purposes, which was passed ...
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Finding who owned/managed Yorkshire Hall Plantation in Demerara (Guyana) in early 19th century?
Not a direct answer but may provide you with additional leads.
There are numerous references to "Yorkshire Hall" and William Chichester (as chichester, chionester, and chishester) at this website: vc....
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Finding out if ancestor owned land they lived on in England
In 1947 England didn’t have mandatory land registration, so there was no comprehensive record of who owned what. Proof of ownership was normally established by producing the deeds to the property. So ...
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Compiler / Author of printed Landowner record books in England and Wales?
Is this perhaps The Return of Owners of Land, 1873? Can't access my copy at the moment to cross check the contents.
See Wikipedia article
Re the units involved: Anyone attempting to understand these ...
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Would selling land at a low price to someone of the same surname indicate a familial relationship?
I've always been on the side of taking a grain of salt with leaning towards believing there was a familial connection. From just a single deed we don't know if there might be other obligations one ...
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Finding who owned/managed Yorkshire Hall Plantation in Demerara (Guyana) in early 19th century?
One of the other UCL pages notes that in 1826 Yorkshire Hall was: "In lawful possession of Thomas Skelton by his attorney William Chichester". That suggests to me that William did not (then) own ...
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Finding out if ancestor owned land they lived on in England
I Googled 'property ownership records of Harrogate, Yorkshire, UK 1945.'
The first entry has this description:
Elsewhere in England for most of the counties you will find a County Record Office, .....
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Finding US or Wisconsin government official Vitus Seng
If you are struggling with finding a particular person by name, zoom out and study the profession as a whole, for context. Think about how you might research land agents in Wisconsin, and gather ...
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Finding 1834 location in St Clement, Cornwall, England
First let's look at the units of measure in these two documents.
The first transcription (1834) says Francis Green (FG) occupies four fields of 12 acres.
The second document (1828) says Hugh Biddick (...
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finding copies of Owen County, Indiana deed records?
From the County
Records are available online from the Owen County Indiana Recorder's Office.
OWEN COUNTY RECORDS UPDATE
DEEDS: All Deed Books have been scanned back to 1819 and are in
the process of ...
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Finding out if ancestor owned land they lived on in England
If you haven't already, start a research log or journal (or both) for your project, and write as you go. Record what record sets you have searched, the search terms used, and the results (including ...
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