As promised, here is an excerpt from my new book, Genealogy Offline: A beginner's guide to family history records that are not online.
Although the final document awarding Riley E. Breland his 160 acres in Mississippi is online at the GLO website, housed at the National Archives in Washington D.C. are 28 pages of documents, contained in this packet:
Although the final document awarding Riley E. Breland his 160 acres in Mississippi is online at the GLO website, housed at the National Archives in Washington D.C. are 28 pages of documents, contained in this packet:
The file includes his application, with his signature:
As with most applications of this kind, there are depositions from friends who could testify that Riley had improved the land, building a house, kitchen, smoke house, 3 corn cribs and stables, and that he had not been absent from the land more than a day or two in the five years he’d lived there.
When it was time for Riley to make his final application and get the land awarded to him, a notice was put in the local newspaper.
When it was time for Riley to make his final application and get the land awarded to him, a notice was put in the local newspaper.
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