Combs &c. Families Kentucky Land Warrants

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Certificates of Settlement and Preemption Warrants

Under the Virginia Land Law of 1779, residents of the Kentucky District could purchase Certificates of Settlement and Preemption Warrants if they met certain residency requirements. Persons in Kentucky County prior to January 1, 1778, who had made an improvement and planted a crop of corn, were eligible for 400 acre Certificates of Settlement for the land they had improved. They could purchase an additional 1000 acres, adjoining the Settlement tract, under a Preemption Warrant.

Anyone in Kentucky County, Virginia, after January 1, 1778 and before May 1779 (when the Land Law was written) was eligible for a 400 acre Preemption Warrant for the tract on which they had made an improvement and planted a corn crop. See Overview at the KENTUCKY LAND OFFICE website.

Images are of the Warrant issued by the Commonwealth of Virginia and are highly optimized. Full sized images can be viewed and downloaded at the Kentucky Land Office website.

Thanks to Barbara Rivas for locating and submitting this information.

BR Note: Joseph Combs owned 1000A in Kentucky Co, VA before 1774/75. The property was some eight miles from Boonesboro on what was known as Combs Creek. This creek is better known as Howard Creek today. Joseph had been living on the property since his aquisition of it, as there is a document showing he had a cabin already built on the land and his family was there. This documentation that you don't show is found here: In the first image, I believe it says the dates, and on the other side of the paper it says he has until 1780 to file, which he did on 10 March 1780. This particular document was dated 20 Oct 1779.