Kentucky Land Grants

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South of Green River Series

The extracts below focus on grants involving the following persons. Only part of the grants to these people have been obtained so far, so many are omitted from the list below.

Gideon Dyer Cobb	Moved to Eddyville from Fair Haven, Vermont as part of the party organized by Matthew Lyon about 1800, with his wife Modena Chittenden Clark, and their eldest son, Caleb.
Samuel C. Clark	Lived with Gideon, and is assumed to be a relative of Gideon's wife, but that is unproved.
Matthew Lyon	Organizer of the move to Eddyville, second husband of Modena (Clark) Cobb's aunt, Beulah Chittenden.
Chittenden Lyon	Eldest son of Matthew Lyon by his second wife, Beulah Chittenden.
Matthew Lyon, Jr.	Second son of Matthew Lyon by his second wife, Beulah Chittenden.
Elijah G. Galusha	Cousin to Modena (Clark) Cobb; son of her aunt Beulah Chittenden by her first marriage.
Griffin Long	Father of the second wife of Gideon and Modena Cobb's eldest son, Caleb.

Grants under the South of Green River series were authorized by “An Act for Encouraging and Granting Relief to Settlers” approved by the Kentucky General Assembly on March 1, 1797, and amended numerous times afterward. The applicant had to be 21 years old, a resident of for at least one year on previously vacant land, and had cleared and fenced two acres of ground and tended it in corn, and could claim 200 acres. Later amendments reduced the age requirement to 18 and increased the maximum size to 400 acres.

The first step to obtaining a grant under this act was for the applicant to have a county commission certify that the conditions had been met, with a document known as a "warrant."

The applicant then had a survey made, which defined the actual boundaries of the grant. The survey was filed with the land office.

The grants required payment of fees, initially set at $60 per 100 acres for first rate land and $40 per 100 for second rate land, to be paid within twelve months. The time to make payments was extended several times by the General Assembly.

After payment of the fees a patent was issued, which provided actual title to the land.

Warrants and Surveys could be assigned to others, and often were, sometimes multiple times, as shown by the grants extracted below.

Warrants, surveys, receipts for payments, assignments (often written on the preceding documents), and patents are held by the Land office of the Secretary of State. These documents for some patent series are available online on the Land Office website. However this series is not currently available on line, so copies must be obtained from the Land Office.

Transfers of title after a patent was issued are done by deed, which are registered in county clerk's offices in the various counties.

Survey No Bk & Pg	Patent			Payment	Survey			Warrant
Survey No Bk & Pg	Date	Grantee	Description	Date	Date	Surveyed For	Description	No.	Date	Grantee	Description
2392 2:118	28 Sep 1803	Beulah Lyon	200 ac in Livingston Co on waters of Eddy Ck	22 Dec 1800 Samuel Ware $40 28 Dec 1802 Saml Ware $16.89 28 Sep 1803 $23.11 transferred from Robert Wood payment 12 Dec 1798	15 Mar 1799	Joseph Roberson assigned to Samuel Ware 10 Nov 1799 assigned to Beulah Lyon 7 Sep 1802	200 ac in Christian Co on waters of Eddy Ck	3375	17 Oct 1798	Joseph Robertson	200 ac Eddy waters
2942 3:150	20 Apr 1807	Matthew Lyon	200 ac in Livingston Co on waters of Flyns fork	10 Sep 1800 Matthew Lyon £0-6-9 25 Feb 1801 Matthew Lyon $21.60 assigned to Enoch Hogan 2 Mar 1802 20 Apr 1807 Matthew Lyon $63.40	25 Jul 1800	John Holiday assigned to Matthew Lyon 26 Aug 1800	200 ac in Livingston Co on waters of Flyns fork	4578	21 Nov 1798	James Taylor assigned to William Shaw 17 Jan 1799 transferred to Justinian Cartwright no date transferred to John Holiday no date	200 ac waters of Tradewater
3058 7:166	4 Feb 1809	Matthew Lyon Junior	200 ac in Christian Co on waters of Eddy Ck	21 Dec 1808 Matthew Lyon $70.93	11 Mar 1799	["John Swift assignee of" crossed out] Israel Robertson transferred to John Swift 10 Sep 1799 assigned to Matthew Lyon Junior 31 Dec 1808 by John Mercer atty	200 ac in Christian Co on waters of Eddy Ck	3376	17 Oct 1798	Israel Robertson	200 ac. Eddy waters
12164 17:65	8 Jun 1815	Chittenden Lyon	200 ac in Livingston Co on Lick Ck	21 Dec 1808 Matthew Lyon $70.93	26 Nov 1799	Isaac Grubbs assigned to Chittenden Lyon 5 Nov 1814	200 ac in Livingston Co on Lick Ck	4377	8 Nov 1798	Clay Gustavis assignment to Grubbs not found	200 ac on Lick Ck
9205 17:459	1 Feb 1816	Elijah G Galusha	400 ac in Livingston Co on Hammons Ck & Crab Ck	8 Feb 1815 Elijah G Galusha $20	15 May 1802	Elijah G Galusha	400 ac on Hammons Ck & Crab Ck	33	5 May 1801	Elijah G Galusha	400 ac in Livingston Co on Hammonds & Crab Ck
13155 18:521-2	16 Jul 1816	Gideon D Cobb	400 ac in Caldwell Co on waters of Cumberland River, beginning at corner to G D Cobb	8 Jun 1816 Kable C Cobb $80	30 Dec 1815	Gideon D Cobb C C Cobb was a chain carrier; John Cobb was marker	400 ac in Caldwell Co on waters of Cumberland River	1635	5 Feb 1806	Caleb Clark Cobb assigned to Gideon D Cobb 5May 1807	400 ac on waters of Cumberland River
12814 21:309	3 Feb 1817	Griffin Long	400 ac in Caldwell Co on waters of Spring Ck	3 Feb 1817 certified as paid in full	16 Nov 1815	Griffin Long	400 ac in Caldwell Co on waters of Spring Ck	531	6 Dec 1802	Griffin Long	400 ac between Spring & Crab Cks
2250 26:84	2 Dec 1822	Mathew Lyon	200 ac in Christian Co on Clifty a branch of Cumberland	20 May 1814 Jas Coleman $77.24	24 Dec 1798	James T White assigned to Matthew Lyon 29 Aug 1800	200 ac in Christian Co on Clifty branch of Cumberland	4594	10 Sep 1798	James Coleman transferred to James T White 10 Nov 1798	200 ac south of Green River

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Source: Abstracts were made from copies provided by office of Kentucky Secretary of State

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