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From: "Betty A. Pace" <>
Subject: [PACE-L] Fw: Re: BLM -- ALSEY PACE (Benton Co AR.)
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 15:30:06 +0000


I had asked the contributor of that Arkansas land record page to explain
the land designations, especially section 15 (Alsey Pace and others).
Here is her reply, perhaps useful to one of you who do have ancestors on
the land listing.
Betty Pace
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From: "FISHER,JOY R" <>
To: "Betty A. Pace" <>
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 18:02:05 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: BLM -- ALSEY PACE (Benton Co AR.)
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All of the states, except the east coast states use a Township Range
Section system of pinpointing where the land is located. Here is a site
to
help you understand this:

http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/Visitors/PLSS.asp

That said, here is a map:

http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=15&n=4029253&e=405790&s=200

the red + is in Section 15.

You can see an actual copy of the land record at the BLM web site:

http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/

Click on "search land patents", enter your zip code on the next page,
then
enter the name you are interested in

Once the search engine finds it, click on the "document image" tab.


On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Betty A. Pace wrote:

> Dear Joy,
>
> Thank you for putting the BLM records for Arkansas on the Arkansas
> Archives. I am new to Arkansas research, and my experience so far as
> been with Virginia and then North Carolina. I don't know how to
> interpret the below entry on ALSEY PACE (from 1843)
>
> Apparently his land grant/purchase was in Benton Co, but I don't
> understand section 15, the Township, the Range. Here is what the
> Archives entry said.
> Bureau of Land Management's General Land Office (GLO) Automated
> Records Project (Arkansas).
> Last name First name Init County Sec Twp Rng Acres
> ---Date--- Warrant Name and/or Remarks
> PACE ALSEY Benton 15 20N 30W 80
> 1843/03/10
>
> Is there any indication here as to where this property was located?
>
> Thank you so much for any clarification you can give me. I hope
> contacting you is not an imposition.
>
> Betty Pace - Norfolk, VA
>

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