Land Records

Delaware Indian Allotments

Tishcohan A Delaware Chief

This collection provides the names of Delaware and Cherokee Indians involved in the segregation and allotment of lands in the Cherokee Nation to the Delaware Indians. It also provides a comprehensive history with supporting documentation of the actions taken. For those researchers attempting to identify their ancestor in the Final Rolls, this may help identify the card number for your ancestor. After you find your ancestor listed on these pages, make a note of the Card Number, and go to the Final Roll Database and search there. Put OS (Old Settler or Old Series) in front of the Card Number and search.

McMinn County, Tennessee Land Deeds

This book is not a index to the Deed Books of McMinn County. It is, rather, the product of my scrutiny, page by page, of twenty-two Grand and Deed books, 1820 – 1880 and my summary of any items which might be of interest to historians and genealogists. If the same information is given in two deeds, I used the earlier one. If the name of a county or town is given without the name of the State, then the said county or town is in Tennessee. The letters L-S and I-J in the original are often indistinguishable. McMinn County, … Read more