Coursey-Sansing Family Tree
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Coursey, William Charles
1729 - 1814 (82 years)
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Name Coursey, William Charles Born 22 Mar 1729 Talbot County, Maryland, USA 
Gender Male Died Between Abt 1812 and Abt 1814 Logan County, Kentucky, USA Person ID I500425 Coursey-Sansing Tree Last Modified 17 Nov 2020
Married Between Abt 1726 and Abt 1728 Maryland (MD) Family ID F500216 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mary, d. Logan County, Kentucky, USA Married Between Abt 1761 and Abt 1763 Augusta County, Virginia, USA Children 1. Coursey, Charles William, b. Abt 1769, Virginia, USA , d. Abt 1840, Fulton County, Georgia, USA (Age ~ 71 years)2. Coursey, Elizabeth Anderson, b. Abt 1771, Virginia, USA 3. Coursey, Lucy Anderson, b. Abt 1772, Virginia, USA 4. Coursey, Robert, b. 19 Jul 1774, Virginia, USA , d. 23 May 1839, Spa, Logan County, Kentucky, USA (Age 64 years)5. Coursey, Mary Anderson, b. Abt 1777, Virginia, USA 6. Coursey, William, b. Abt 1783, Augusta County, Virginia, USA , d. Abt Mar 1855, Marshall County, Tennessee, USA (Age ~ 72 years)Last Modified 17 Nov 2020 Family ID F500215 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes Kentucky Land Purchase
Virginia Treasury Warrant No. 2677.0
February 16, 1780
400 Acres
Paid £160.00 (Pounds.Shillings)
This is the Scott County land in Kentucky prior to Kentucky being a state (part of Virginia).
In 1776, the Virginia General Assembly formed Kentucky County out of Fincastle County. The complete text of all Acts creating Kentucky's 120 counties, plus the Acts creating Fincastle, Kentucky, Beckham, Henrietta and Zollicoffer counties, is contained on this website.
Land in Kentucky is allocated by the land patenting process, which consists of four steps:
- itle is not conveyed until the grant is issued.
The Secretary of State's Land Office is the repository for all records pertaining to patents issued within the Kentucky boundary, including patents issued by the state of Virginia prior to Kentucky's statehood in 1792.
Kentucky land patents are divided into nine major groupings, each of which traces its origin to Acts of the Virginia or Kentucky General Assembly. In all instances the grantor is either the state of Virginia or the Commonwealth of Kentucky, and the grantee is the person or persons who receives the Governor's grant finalizing the patenting transaction. Images for patent files that have been scanned are available through the Patent Series Overview website; additional patent series will be made available online as they are scanned.
Early Kentucky settlers who made an improvement and planted a crop prior to January 1, 1778, were entitled to a 400-acre certificate of settlement and could purchase an additional adjacent 1,000 acres under a preemption warrant. Persons who made an improvement and planted a crop in Kentucky County, Virginia from January 1, 1778, through May 1779 could purchase a 400-acre preemption warrant. This office maintains a database of settlers whom the Land Commission deemed qualified for Certificates of Settlement and Preemption Warrants.
Chapter XIII, Land Law B, passed in May 1779, expanded the land patenting process to include acquisitions under treasury warrants. Information for all entries in the Virginia Treasury Warrants Registers, Vols. I and II as copied by Edmund Thomas, Register of the Kentucky Land Office, and certified by William Prince, Register of the Virginia Land Office, is available online.
In 1780, Kentucky County, Virginia, was divided into three counties (Jefferson, Fayette and Lincoln), each of which had a principal surveyor who conducted field surveys and oversaw the work of deputy surveyors in the county. Entries for Lincoln County are listed on this website.
Occasionally, heirs and devisees filed Wills in order to finalize patents initiated by deceased family members. Wills that have been located by this office are accessible on this website.
The Jackson Purchase in Western Kentucky is the only portion of Kentucky mapped by the federal government's public surveying method. The Jackson Purchase Locator allows researchers to enter range, township and East/West coordinates to determine the location of a West of Tennessee River patent as defined by the 1885 Loughridge Map. West of Tennessee River patents are indexed in Jillson's Kentucky Land Grants, Vol. 1.
The May 1779 Land Laws passed by the Virginia General Assembly authorized the sale of treasury warrants to patent "waste and unappropriated land." After proof of payment was established, the Virginia Land Office provided a printed warrant specifying the quantity of land and the rights upon which it was due. No proof of prior military service or residency was required for purchasing a treasury warrant. The initial price was 40 pounds for every 100 acres. Proceeds from the sale of treasury warrants were used "to create a sinking fund in aid of the annual taxes to discharge the public debt." Some treasury warrants were issued by special acts or resolutions of the Virginia General Assembly.
By declaring there was no limit on the number of treasury warrants that could be purchased, the Virginia General Assembly opened the door to land speculators and their agents. Multiple treasury warrants could authorize a single patent for thousands of acres.