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07/10/2015 The Gaines Chapel Cemetery section has been updated with corrections. Ocoee Grant Book D images from the microfilm are now viewable in their own viewer. Currently an index is in progress for all of the Ocoee District grants in all the books, with an index search engine and grant viewer page to view every Ocoee District grant as far as we have indexed. Transcription of Will Book 1 is continuing by Beverly Mann.

04/14/2015: I have drawn a new map of the Ocoee District showing the ranges and townships. The map is clickable; so that any township labelled on the map can be clicked to open the image of the plat book page for that township. There are also buttons to click to make overlays appear to show how the townships were located in the counties as the county lines were laid out in both 1838 and 1839. Polk County was formed in Nov. 1839 from Bradley, causing the county lines to change. People started making entries with the Ocoee District Entry-taker on the first Monday of November 1838.

02/22/2015: All of Deed Book C is now viewable on this site as images of the pages from the microfilm. The index for that book is also viewable as images.

 

Also Deed Book D and its index are now viewable in a viewer on this site. In total, the deeds from 1819-1843 can now be viewed.

The Will Book 1 transcriptions are continuing with 124 wills now transcribed.

There is now on this site a viewer for the images of the Ocoee District Land Grants, Book B, and another viewer is under construction for the images of the pages of the Plat Book for those grants, both obtained from the microfilm of TN State Record Group 50. The Ocoee District included parts of Marion, Hamilton and Bradley Counties, lying to the east and south of the Tennessee River. For Marion county, it is the area with places known as New Hope, Shellmound, Guild, Mt Etna, Haletown, Raccoon Mountain, Whiteside, and Running Water P.O.

The Marion County Entry Takers Book and its separate index images are now viewable showing the entries made by those claiming land that they had already occupied and made improvements upon; a step that would be followed by a survey and then a land grant by the state of TN. These entries cover Nov. 1838 - (?).