I'll have to lie-down in a dark room after all this
Regards
John
Manchester
England
----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich from LA CA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Here is the actual (ha ha ) setup.
The original 13 colonies were set up under the rules of the royal charter for each separately.
Maine was originally part of Massachusetts.
Kentucky and West Virginia were under Virginia rules.
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin were originally under Virginia rules. Those
were transfered to the US after the revolution, became the Northwest Territories.
The NWT also had claims from Connecticut and others. All now federal land used the above named
township system, BUT, some land had been sold under the old systems of each, in each.
Tennessee was first under North Carolina.
Parts of Alabama and Mississippi were under Georgia, the remainder became federal under the
Southwest Territories. Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, parts of other states, were originally
staked out as Spanish lands. Left overs joined the federal program.
Louisiana and all territories in the Louisiana Purchase had some land granted by the French king, with his
rules.
By the 1830's the rules of land not yet privately owned became federally managed.
Hawaii is still under some rules of the Kingdom.
There it is in a nutshell.
50 states, some have 7-10 internal (infernal) land systems. IMHO there are about 100 different distinct survey
systems in these 50 states, and more in the dependencies and DC.
GET ANIMAP.
Rich in LA CA
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