AL: Family Maps Of Coffee County, Alabama
Family Maps of Coffee County, Alabama, by Gregory A. Boyd, J.D., 316 pages with 65 total maps; Softbound, 8.5x11 inches; publ. 2010: ISBN: 9781420315523. Locating original landowners on maps has never been an easy task until now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (
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Family Maps of Coffee County, Alabama, by Gregory A. Boyd, J.D., 316 pages with 65 total maps; Softbound, 8.5x11 inches; publ. 2010: ISBN: 9781420315523.

Locating original landowners on maps has never been an easy task until now. This volume in the Family Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners (patent maps) in what is now Coffee County, Alabama, gleaned from the indexes of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. But it offers much more than that. For each township in the county, there are two additional maps accompanying the patent map: a road map and a map showing waterways, railroads, and both modern and many historical city-centers and cemeteries.

Included are indexes to help you locate what you are looking for, whether you know a person's name, a last name, a place-name, or a cemetery. The combination of maps and indexes are designed to aid researchers of American history or genealogy to explore frontier neighborhoods, examine family migrations, locate hard-to-find cemeteries and towns, as well as locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or deeds.

The patent-maps are essentially plat maps but instead of depicting owners for a particular year, these maps show original landowners, no matter when the transfer from the federal government was completed. Dates of patents typically begin near the time of statehood and run into the early 1900s.

What's Mapped in this book (that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . .

6844 Parcels of Land (with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the relevant map)

95 Cemeteries, plus . . . Roads, existing Rivers, Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some historical), etc.

What YEARS are these maps for?

Here are the counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the corresponding land patents were issued:

Decade Parcel-count 1820s 6 1830s 237 1840s 518 1850s 3105 1860s 577 1870s 8 1880s 292 1890s 1757 1900s 304 1910s 31 1920s 4 1930s 2 1940s 1 1960s 1

What Cities and Towns are in Coffee County, Alabama (and in this book)?

Alberton, Arcus, Basin, Battens Crossroads, Bluff Springs, Boland Acres, Brooklyn, Central City, Chestnut Grove, Clintonville, Clowers Crossroads, College Heights, Coppinville, Curtis, Damascus, Danleys Crossroads, Elba, Enterprise, Fairview, Foxhill, Frisco, Goodman, Holley Store, Indigo, Ino, Jack, Java, Keyton, Kinston, Lee, Lowry Mill, Mixson, New Brockton, New Hope, Newby, Oak Ridge, Omni, Perry Store, Pine Level, Rhoades, Richburg, Roeton, Saddle Hill, Shady Grove, Tabernacle, Turner Crossroads, Victoria, Wilkinstown, Zoar

Acts of Congress Authorizing the Land Patents in this book:

April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)

May 20, 1862: Homestead EntryOriginal (12 Stat. 392)

September 28, 1850: ScripWarrant Act of 1850 (9 Stat. 520)

March 3, 1855: ScripWarrant Act of 1855 (10 Stat. 701)

March 22, 1852: ScripWarrant Act of 1852 (10 Stat. 3)

February 11, 1847: ScripWarrant Act of 1847 (9 Stat. 123)

NA: Sale-Title 32 Chapter 7 (RS 2353 43 USC 672)

Indexes in this book

Surnames in the County (number of times each Surname occurs)

Surname/Township Index (every Surname and the frequency in which each appears in relevant Township-level Maps)

Full-Name Index (of Original Landowners) for each Township

-Populated Places

-Cemeteries

-Multi-Patentees (Groups of people who acquired land together)

Reviews by the Experts

What they are saying about the Family Maps series:

instant gratification! -Elizabeth Shown Mills, Author, Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace

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