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From the earliest years of its history, the United States has had programs for making land available to its citizens at no cost or a very low price. For example, many veterans of the Revolutionary War received free land as reward or payment for their service to their country. 

Many of the records of the conveyance of Federal government land to private citizens under a number of programs (such as the Homestead Act) have been maintained by the General Land Office (GLO) of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. The GLO has recently posted these records on a website along with a search function for the records. A search of the GLO website for the Grimshaws who received Federal land found 41 recipients of Federal land in 17 states.

Tabulation of Grimshaws Who Received Federal Land

Additional Information on the General Land Office Website

More Detail on the Records for Grimshaws Who Got Federal Land

Frequently Asked Questions on the GLO Webpage

 

Tabulation of Grimshaws Who Received Federal Land

The GLO website for conducting searches is at www.glorecords.blm.gov. The results of the search for Grimshaws are shown in Table 1, which has 63 entries (a separate search for "Grinshaw" found no entries). A total of 41 Grimshaws (some of them received more than one grant) received land in 17 states:

Arkansas Mississippi Ohio
California Missouri Oregon
Idaho Montana South Dakota
Illinois Nebraska Utah
Louisiana New Mexico Wisconsin
Minnesota North Dakota  

Most of the grants were in sections (160 acres) or half or quarter sections (80 or 40 acres). Additional information on these grants is provided further down on this webpage. Many of the Grimshaws who received land are described on other webpages on this website. Links to these webpages will be provided in the future.

Table 1. List of Grimshaws who received land from the U.S. Government, as indicated by a search of the GLO website. Note that George and Jonathan Grimshaw received multiple grants in Mississippi and Missouri.

No  Last  First  ST  County  Acres  Issue Date  Land Office 
1 Grimshaw  George  AR  Drew  1920 7/28/1838  Helena 
2 Grimshaw  Benjamin  CA  Merced  159.62 7/1/1861  ** 
3 Grimshaw  Jonathan W  CA  Solano  160 2/1/1868  ** 
4 Grimshaw  George H  ID  Washington  80 3/30/1908 Idaho 
5 Grimshaw  John N  IL  Pike  40 11/3/1840  Quincy 
6 Grimshaw  John W  IL  Pike  80 8/6/1838  Quincy 
7 Grimshaw  Gideon F  LA  Caldwell  79.83 7/1/1859  Monroe 
8 Grimshaw  Walter E  LA  La Salle  120.21 10/20/1902 New Orleans 
9 Grimshaw  Benjamin  MN  Steele  40 6/1/1859  Winona 
10 Grimshaw  George W  MN  Wadena  40 6/1/1859  Winona 
11 Grimshaw  Henry  MN  Polk  80 5/4/1885  St. Cloud 
12 Grimshaw  John N  MN  St. Louis  40 2/25/1896  Crookston 
13 Grimshaw  Samuel  MN  Hinds  80 4/15/1875  Duluth 
14 Grimshaw  George  MI  Hinds  42.28 9/25/1835  Mt. Salus 
15 Grimshaw  George  MI  Hinds  80.03 9/25/1835  Mt. Salus 
16 Grimshaw  George  MI  Hinds  40.01 9/25/1835  Mt. Salus 
17 Grimshaw  George  MI  Hinds  84.56 9/25/1835  Mt. Salus 
18 Grimshaw  George  MI  Hinds  84.59 10/20/1835  Mt. Salus 
19 Grimshaw  George  MI  Hinds  84.56 10/20/1835  Mt. Salus 
20 Grimshaw  George  MI  Hinds  80.03 2/20/1837  Mt. Salus 
21 Grimshaw  George  MI  Hinds  84.56 2/10/1840  Mt. Salus 
22 Grimshaw  George  MI  Hinds  80.03 2/10/1840  Mt. Salus 
23 Grimshaw  George  MI  Hinds  84.59 2/10/1840  Mt. Salus 
24 Grimshaw  George  MI  Hinds  81.62 7/20/1826  Jackson 
25 Grimshaw  George  MI  Hinds  79.87 11/1/1836  Jackson 
26 Grimshaw  George  MI  Hinds  84.56 4/1/1831  Mt. Salus 
27 Grimshaw  George  MI  Hinds  80.06 4/1/1831  Mt. Salus 
28 Grimshaw  George  MI  Hinds  80.03 1/10/1832  Mt. Salus 
29 Grimshaw  Jonathan  MO  Bates  40.695 7/5/1866  Booneville 
30 Grimshaw  Jonathan  MO  Bates, Vernon  40.4 7/5/1866  Booneville 
31 Grimshaw  Jonathan  MO  Bates  40 7/5/1866  Booneville 
32 Grimshaw  Jonathan  MO  Bates  40 7/5/1866  Booneville 
33 Grimshaw  Jonathan  MO  Bates  40 10/10/1866  Booneville 
34 Grimshaw  Jonathan  MO  Bates  40 10/10/1866  Booneville 
35 Grimshaw  Jonathan  MO  Bates  40 10/10/1866  Booneville 
36 Grimshaw  Jesse W  MT  Carbon  320 4/5/1920 Billings 
37 Grimshaw  Edward S  NE  Arthur  477.76 6/27/1913 North Platte 
38 Grimshaw  Fitzhugh L  NM  Lincoln  640 5/21/1938 Las Cruces 
39 Grimshaw  James Henry  ND  Williams  160 6/26/1911 Williston 
40 Grimshaw  Michael H  ND  Divide  160 6/25/1913 Williston 
41 Grimshaw  Ragnhild  ND  Divide  316.02 8/1/1918 Williston 
42 Grimshaw  William C  ND  Divide  160 6/5/1911 Williston 
43 Grimshaw  Richard  OH  Scioto  38.68 2/1/1851  Chillicothe 
44 Grimshaw  John W  OR  Lane  160 4/12/1921 Roseburg 
45 Grimshaw  Leonard H  OR  Lane  156.8 1/30/1923 Roseburg 
46 Grimshaw  Lloyd M  OR  Linn  160 4/17/1907 Roseburg 
47 Grimshaw  Edward S  SD  McCook  160 4/2/1901 Mont.State Off. 
48 Grimshaw  George T  SD  Lyman  160 10/12/1908 Chamberlain 
49 Grimshaw  Kate E  SD  Pennington  160 9/19/1889  Mont.State Off. 
50 Grimshaw  Mae  SD  Clark  160 1/18/1896  Mont.State Off. 
51 Grimshaw  Winton  SD  Corson  160 1/18/1919 Lemmon 
52 Grimshaw  Arnold  UT  Iron  320 10/13/1924 Salt Lake City 
53 Grimshaw  Clarence  UT  Beaver  160 1/13/1922 Salt Lake City 
54 Grimshaw  Estella Jones  UT  Iron  320.8 5/12/1931 Salt Lake City 
55 Grimshaw  George W  UT  Iron  240 7/6/1927 Salt Lake City 
56 Grimshaw  L W  UT  Iron  158.56 5/9/1929 Salt Lake City 
57 Grimshaw  Randolph  UT  Iron  280 7/21/1922 Salt Lake City 
58 Grimshaw  Ray  UT  Iron  160 12/26/1913 Salt Lake City 
59 Grimshaw  William H  UT  Iron  160 9/14/1911 Salt Lake City 
60 Grimshaw  Andrew B  WI  Juneau  40 10/15/1908 Wausau 
61 Grimshaw  Eli  WI  Monroe  80 11/25/1879  La Crosse 
62 Grimshaw  Henry  WI  Waukesha  40 9/10/1844  Milwaukee 
63 Grimshaw  Robert  WI  Clark  80 9/5/1866  La Crosse 

**Assigned for Automation

 

Additional Information on the General Land Office Website

The GLO website provides the following information in the introduction.

The Official Federal Land Patent Records Site

Welcome to the new Bureau of Land Management (http://www.blm.gov), General Land Office (GLO) Records Automation web site. We provide live access to Federal land conveyance records for the Public Land States. We also provide image access to more than two million Federal land title records for Eastern Public Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908. Images of Serial patents (land titles issued between 1908 and the mid-1960's) are currently being added to this web site. Due to organization of documents in the GLO collection, this site does not currently contain every Federal title record issued for the Public Land States.

Search Federal Land Patents Databases

This site offers researchers a source of information on the initial transfer of land titles from the Federal government to individuals. In addition to verifying title transfer, this information will allow the researcher to associate an individual (Patentee, Assignee, Warrantee, Widow, or Heir) with a specific location (Legal Land Description) and time (Issue Date).

Obtain Certified Copies of Land Patents

With our on-line shopping cart, users may request certified copies of land patents electronically or through the mail. To search for land patents, click on Search Land Patents on the menu near the top of the page. A series of pages will guide you through viewing and ordering land patents.

 

More Detail on the Records for Grimshaws Who Got Federal Land

Table 2 contains additional information, including General Land Office document references, on the 63 entries presented in Table 1.

Table 2. Tabulation of 63 entries showing reserves, authority for granting the land, and document reference numbers at the GLO.