Moving to Indiana

One of the challenges in genealogy is proving that a person in one location is the same person in another place and time. I often turn to land records to help make that connection. Thus, finding a land patent for Indiana land indicating that James Crawford came from Garrard County, Kentucky is 'genealogy gold'.

United States Bureau of Land Management, "General Land Office Records," database with images, BLM.Gov (http://glorecords.blm.gov : viewed online April 2019), James Crawford.


Exc & sent, May 5, 1814
James Madison, President of the United States of America
TO all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:
Know ye, that James Crawford, of Garrard County, Kentucky
having deposited in the General Land-office a certificate of the register of the land-office
at Jeffersonville, whereby it appears that full payment has been made for
the North East quarter of Section number twenty-
nine, of Township number four (North of the base
line,) in Range number ten (East of the second principal
Meridian,)
of the lands to be sold at Jeffersonville
by the act of Congress, Entitled "An act providing for the sale of the lands of the United
States in the territory north-west of the Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky river," and
the acts amendatory of the same, There is granted, by the United States, unto the said
James Crawford the quarter lot or
section of land above, described: To have and to hold the said quarter
lot or section of land, with the appurtenances, unto the said
James Crawford, his heirs and assigns forever.
In Testimony whereof, I have caused these 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 twenty-fifth
day of March in the year of our Lord one 
thousand eight hundred and fourteen, and of the Independence
of the United States of America, the thirty-eighth.
By the President

Finding James Crawford's land patent caused me to search for similar records for each of his children.  Additional research is needed to make sure these patents are for his sons or sons-in-law, but I have found possibilities for most of the family.

Beverly Vawter, husband of Elizabeth Crawford, received a patent in 1813 for land in Jefferson County.

A James Crawford received a patent in 1815 for land in Jennings County, Indiana. According to the patent, James Crawford was a private in Captain Warner's Company, General Stockton's Regiment of Delaware Volunteers, War of 1812. This might be James M. Crawford, son of James and Rebecca. 

Isaac Crawford received a patent in 1815 for land in Jefferson County, Indiana.

William Crawford along with Isaac Crawford received a patent in 1815 as assignees of James Crawford for land in Jefferson County, Indiana.

William Brown Guthrie, husband of Mary Polly Crawford, received a patent in 1825 for land in Jefferson County, Indiana.

David Hall, husband of Jane Crawford, received a patent in 1837 in Dearborn County, Indiana.

John Crafton, husband of Cynthia Crawford, received a patent in 1843 for land in Scott County, Indiana.

Robert Creath, Husband of Anne Crawford, received a patent in 1851 for land in Ripley County, Indiana.

A trip to the Seneca Free Library will be required to utilize FamilySearch to locate additional land records to verify that these land patents are for these members of the Crawford family.