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Record Group Number: 000599
Series/Collection Number: .S 997
Creator: United States. Board of Land Commissioners.
Title, Dates: Concessions for new settlers, 1791-1821.
Amount: 0.50 cubic ft.
2.00 microfilm reel
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Organization/Arrangement: Numerical.
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Biographical/Historical:     The Seventeenth United States Congress established a Board of Land Commissioners in 1822 to settle all Spanish land grant claims in the Florida territory that Spain ceded to the United States in 1821 (3 U.S. Statute 709, May 8). The commission set up offices in Pensacola and St. Augustine to ascertain the validity of all titles and private claims to lands in East Florida and West Florida. The Board either supported or rejected the land claims by studying the documents supplied by claimants.
Summary:     This series contains the concessions for new settlers granted by virtue of the Royal Order communicated to the Spanish Government on October 29, 1790. The concessions were filed with the Board of Land Commissioner as evidence of settlement of lands in East Florida. The Royal Order encouraged settlers to move to Florida by giving them land to which they could gain title if they held and cultivated it for ten years. The series includes a name index.
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Additional Physical Form: Microfilm.
Scans of microfilm produced by FamilySearch available at the Archives.
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Language Notes: Spanish.
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Subject Access Fields: Spanish Florida claims.
Land grants Florida
Florida History To 1821
East Florida.
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