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California Private Land Grant Records In The National Archives, J. N. Bowman, January 24, 1956

National Archives Documents

Detailed report regarding California Private Land Grant Records in the National Archive prepared by J. N. Bowman, January 24, 1956.

Provides historical background, types of private land grant papers in the National Archives and the location of other private land grant papers both nationally and within the State of California.

Describes types of private land grant papers located within the National Archives and their condition.

Extensive lists of Expedientes, Unclassified Expedientes and Board Expedientes

California Private Land Claims - Case Expediente Shelf List By Gay L. Ebinger, December 1981

National Archives Documents

Detailed explanation regarding documents found in the California Private Land Claims folders; Index of Case Exppedientes

Records Of Mexican Land Claims In California, Ralph G. Lounsbury, Undated

National Archives Documents

A report (93 pages) on the historical background of land tenure in California.

Provides the series of the land records of California located in Federal agencies and California and detailed background information for each category:

• Land records of the Spanish and Mexican Archives of California;
• Documents deposited in support of claims filed with the Board of Land Commissioners, 1852-1856;
• Records of Proceedings of that Board, 1851-1856;
• Attorney General's transcripts of Land Commission cases, 1852-1856; and
• Records of cases appealed to the Supreme Court from the United States District Courts in California

Cartographic Records Pertaining To California Private Land Claims, U.S. National Archives, Na-1, Grim 2-19-82.

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A listing of Records of California Private Land Claims that includes:

Complete expedientes (case file). Case file contains variety of textual documents, all in Spanish. Most include a diseños or rough sketch map of the particular grant. It should be the original drawing.

Incomplete expedientes (includes copy of diseños).

Case expedientes (AKA Board expedientes; includes copy of diseños).

Board of Land Commissioners, three volumes of diseños (copies from originals).

Maps separated from General Land Office docket files.

Land Offices plats of survey, 25 volumes of survey plats.

Reference works for researching California Private Land Claims.

Incomplete Expediente, List E, Na4; Records Of The General Land Office, Rg49.

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Alphabetical Index of incomplete Expediente, List D, with corresponding Docket Number (Expediente Number), designating those Expediente that have drawing included.

Expedientes, California Board Of Land Commissioners, Record Group 49: Records Of The General Land Office

National Archives Documents

A 1939 alphabetical listing of Expedientes with claimant and Expediente numbers, located in the National Archives, Record Group 49: Records of the General Land Office, California private land claims.

Complete Expediente, List D, Na3; Records Of The General Land Office, Rg49

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Alphabetical Index of Complete Expediente, List D, with corresponding Docket Number (Expediente Number).

Field Notes Of California Private Claims; Also Plat And Docket Indexes; Combined.

National Archives Documents

Field Notes of California Private Claims – Partly from Chart Index E’s, California field-note drawer) showing such field notes as are in volumes, whether governing or not.

Index – California Private Land Claims - Annotated typescript list prepared in Survey Division of General Land Office (Bureau of Land Management). Covers plats, survey field notes and similar records in Plat Room and other sections of the GLO prior to 1952. Arranged alphabetically by name of claimant. Photostat made in National Archives from original typescript copy of the BLM, November 1952.

Maps Separated from Docket Files, List C – Oversized maps and …