Land/Tax

Bureau of Land Management General Land Office records
(C. Avis Catalog entry #916)

https://glorecords.blm.gov/default.aspx

Louisiana
William D. Cook in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
10911 9/01/1852 “William Cook of Jackson Parish Louisiana” acquires patent after having paid for land
12324 9/01/1853 “William D. Cook of Jackson Parish Louisiana” acquires patent after having paid for land
12308 9/01/1853 “William D. Cook of Jackson Parish Louisiana” acquires patent after having paid for land
13107 9/15/1854 “William D. Cook of Jackson Parish Louisiana” acquires patent after having paid for land
14757 9/01/1856 “William D. Cook of Jackson Parish Louisiana” acquires patent after having paid for land

William H. Cook in Lincoln Parish, Louisiana
17939 1/23/1879 “William H. Cook of Claiborne Parish Louisiana” acquires patent after having paid for land

John Shaw in Claiborne Parish:
02/01/1851 (2) “John Shaw of Claiborne, Louisiana”
10/01/1852 (5) “John Shaw of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana”; “John Shaw of Bieneville Parish, Louisiana”
09/15/1854 (2) "John Shaw of Claiborne County, Louisiana”
09/01/1856 (2) “John Shaw of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana”
04/01/1859 (1) “John Shaw of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana”
01/03/1860 (3) “John Shaw of Claiborne Parish, Louisiana”


Arkansas 
21311 07/24/1907 “Dock Cook” acquires patent after having paid for land (Calhoun county)
[Probably the wrong one who died in Calhoun county in 1927]

7792 11/07/1918 “Frank Cook” acquires patent after having paid for land (Howard county)
 

Sharp Roberson Deed in Giles Co., TN 1850
(C. Avis Catalog entry #913)

Tennessee State Library and Archives
Certified Copy
County:  Giles
Roll No.:  79
Book:  U
Page:  103
Type Record:  Deed

Sharp Roberson
to                                Deed Trust        Registered March 13th 1850
L. W. Ezell

I have this day bargained and sold and do by these presents bargain and sell to L. W. Ezell the following property to wit:  One bay horse, one clock, sixteen head stock hogs, one shotgun, one bed, bedstead & furniture & one cow & calf.  I bind myself to warrant and forever [defend] the above property to the said Ezell against myself & all and every other person whomsoever.  But this conveyance is made in trust & for no other purposes.  That is to say I am indebted to one Thos Arnett in the sum of Eighty Dollars by note dated the 4th of this month, due & bearing interest from date.  Now if I shall will and truly pay off & discharge said note on or before the first day of March 1851, then this Deed to be void.  But if I should not then the said Ezell as Trustee after giving ten days written notice in three public places in civil District No. 11 may expose said property to public sale & sell it to the highest bidder for cash and apply the proceeds to the satisfaction of said note of Eighty dollars, & if there be any overplus pay the balance to me.  This 11th March 1850.    Sharp Roberson

State of Tennessee   }
Giles County            }
Personally appeared before me Edward D. Jones Clerk of the County Court of Giles County the within named Sharp Roberson with whom I am personally acquinted and who acknowledged that he executed the within Deed for the purposed therein contained.  Witness my hand at office this 11th day of March A.D. 1850.

{ No. 21 March Recd 4 o'clock March 13th 1850 }    E. D. Jones Clerk

Early Land Registers of Tennessee 1778 - 1927
(C. Avis Catalog entry #887)
 

Source: Ancestry.com. Tennessee, Early Land Registers, 1778-1927 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. Original Data: Tennessee. Division of Archives, Land Office, and Museum. Early Tennessee/North Carolina Land Records, 1783–1927, Record Group 50. Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee. 

Ivey Stafford
10 acres

Scale 20 poles [?] inch

State of Tennessee
East District

By virtue No. 15750 dated 2nd October 1815 founded on a certificate no. 2004 issued by the Register of West Tennessee for 30 acres I have surveyed for Ivey Stafford [?] originally of William Albu[?] Ten acres of land in Smith County on the [?] of the long fork of [?] in the fork of a large branch which runs into said creek at James Whitely Beginning at a [?] and ash running West fifty two poles to a white oak thence north thirty one poles to a beech and sugartree thence East fifty two poles to an oak and two beeches thence south thirty one poles to the Begining Including same trees deaded by

Samuel Taylor
William B. Robertson
Thomas Dotson

I.C.C.

Surveyed 1st Octr 1816
Josiah Howele DS
Filed 21st March 1817

Survey withdrawn & Entry [?] Septr 22nd 1824 by Heccorn[?] Casey
 

Avis-related land acquisitions in Perry Co., IN
(C. Avis Catalog entry #872)

Records at Perry Co., IN courthouse

Book for Township 5S and Range 1 West

[all purchases were of 'U.S' land and therefore have no deeds recorded in Perry Co..  Possible records at U. S. Bureau of Land Management.]
[all entries have description of tract (location and acres) and certificate number.  Only recording name and date below.  This is the only page with an Avis, could be other Wheatley's and Jarboe's.]

James Avis - 6/9/1840, 5/13/1850, 10/18/1854

George Wheatley - 5/14/1838, 2/8/1834

James Jarboe - 8/5/1834, 3/27/1839, 10/27/1854
Benedict Jarboe - 6/3/1850
John Jarboe - 10/10/1854
William Jarboe - 5/9/1848, 10/8/1852, 10/10/1854, 10/18/1854

General Index of Deeds, Perry Co., IN
(C. Avis Catalog entry #871)


Grantee:  Avis, James
Grantor:  Thos McGlothlen & wife
Type of Deed:  Warr
Date:  8/18/1840
Amount: $70.00
Description:  SE gr of the SE gr 
Section 7
Township 5
Range 1 
40 acres 
Recorded:  8/18/1840
Book C
Page 71

Grantee:  Avis, James
Grantor:  John Miller & wife
Type of Deed:  Warr
Date:  8/4/1853
Amount: $200.00
Description:  SE gr of the SE gr & SW gr of the SE gr 
Section 9
Township 5
Range 1 
80 acres 
Recorded:  1/19/1856
Book G
Page 172
 

Bounty Land Grant
(C. Avis Catalog entry #850)

Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office
Military Warrant MW-0295-325

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:

    WHEREAS, In pursuance of the Act of Congress, approved March 9, 1855, entitled "An Act in addition to certain Acts granting Bounty Land to certain Officers and Soldiers who have been engaged in the military serve of the United States," there has been deposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE, 

Warrant No. 47786 for 160 acres, in favor of Davis Avis,
who served in the name of David Avis, Private, Captain 
Fitzhugh's Company, Texas Militia, Texas Frontier 
Disturbance

with evidence that the same has been duly located upon
 
the South West quarter of sec-
tion thirty-two in Township twenty north of Range
six East, in the District of Sanas subject to sale at 
Monroe, Louisiana, containing one hundred and 
fifty seven acres and fifty eight hundredeths of an 
acre.

according to the Official Plat of the Survey of said Lands returned to the GENERAL LAND OFFICE by the SURVEYOR GENERAL 
the said warrant having been assigned by the said Davis Avis, to Rinaldo D. Marble, in whose favor said tract has been located.

    NOW KNOW YE, That there is therefore granted by the UNITED STATES unto the said 
Rinaldo D. Marble as assignee as aforesaid and to his heirs
the tract of Land above described: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract of Land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said 
Rinaldo D. Marble, as assignee as aforesaid and to his
heirs and assigns forever.

    In testimony whereof, I James Buchanan PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, have caused the Letters to be made Patent, and the SEAL OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE to be hereunto affixed.

    GIVEN under my hand, at the CITY OF WASHINGTON, the first day
    of November in the year of our Lord one thousand
    eight hundred and sixty, and of the INDEPENDENCE
    OF THE UNITED STATES the eighty fifth
    BY THE PRESIDENT JAMES BUCHANAN

    by J. A. B. Leonard  Sec'y.
    J. N. Granger  Recorder of the General Land Office.
 

Deed Book F, McMinn County, TN
(C. Avis Catalog entry #803)

p. 109
Isham Reynolds sells land to James Chesnutt
2-14-1839
 

Lawrence County, Arkansas Tax Records 1829-1838 (Knotts)
(C. Avis Catalog entry #792)

p. 27

1831
Persons Names Charged with taxes:
Hodge, William -- county 0.50, Terr. 0.00
Hodge, Alexander -- county 1.00, Terr. 0.00
Hodge, Arche -- county 0.50, Terr. 0.15

Edgecombe Co., NC Deed Books
(C. Avis Catalog entry #627)

Deed book entries relating to Gray Little's children:

Deed book 18 p. 314
GRAY LITTLE and BLAKE LITTLE were admrs. for GRAY LITTLE, decd., June 9, 1825.
 
Deed book 18 p. 319
SYLVIA MANNING, wife of BENJAMIN MANNING of the State of Alabama, was daughter of GRAY LITTLE, decd., Aug. 24, 1825.
 
Deed book 20 p. 42
WILLIAM LITTLE was son of GRAY LITTLE, Nov. 30, 1828 (also Feb.15, 1830).
 
Deed book 22 p .326
WILLIAM L. WILKERSON of Sumter Co., Alabama sold land descended to him from GRAY LITTLE, Jan 16, 1837.

1830 Citizens of Texas (White)
(C. Avis Catalog entry #679)

Gifford White, Eakin Press, Austin, Texas, 1983

[This is apparently not a real accurate snapshot of who was living in Texas in 1830.  #133 below died in Nov 1826 with #136 being his heirs.  #135 is noted as deceased but did not die until 1836]

p. 136
"An Alphabetical List of Returns from Different Boards of Land Commissioners - Book A"

p. 153 General Land Office Records

#133 
William Hodge
1/3 league
Emigrated Dec 1825
Fort Bend County
Report #1

#134 
Alexander E. Hodge
1/3 league 
Emigrated Aug 1830
Fort Bend County
Report #1

#135 
Alexander Hodge, decd -- Alex E. Hodge Executor
1 labor
Emigrated Nov 1827
Fort Bend County
Report #1

#138 
Wm Hodge decd Heirs of  -- Alex E. Hodge Guardian
1 labor
Emigrated April 1828
Fort Bend County
Report #1