Land grants, homestead applications, plat maps, bounty land warrants and even deed records can be found online through a variety of sources.
A searchable database of over 2,000,000 pre-1908 Federal land title records for the 30 Public Land States (these do not include the 13 colony states).
Searchable database of scanned images of Virginia land documents by which the Crown (1623 - 1774) and the Commonwealth (from 1779) transferred new land to individual ownership. Includes land patents issued prior to 1779; land grants issued by the Virginia Land Office after 1779; grants issued in the Northern Neck from 1692-1862; and original and recorded Northern Neck surveys (1786-1874).
Search or browse digitized volumes of Provincial Court Land Records (1676-1700), plus access links to digitized land records and survey/plat maps for the state of Maryland.
This free, searchable Land Grant Database contains a listing of all original land grants that have been issued an abstract number by the Texas General Land Office (GLO). Digitized images also being added.
Links to New Hampshire counties that have index and/or image records of their land deeds online. Many of them include historical deeds as well as current ones.
The Minnesota Historical Society offers this search feature for Minnesota's original public land survey plats, created during the first government land survey of the state by the U.S. Surveyor General's Office during the years 1848 to 1907. Also included are the later General Land Office and Bureau of Land Management maps, up to the year 2001.
Digitized land documents available for free searching/browsing in the Georgia Archives' Virtual Vault include Chatham County Deed Books (1785-1806), District Plats of Survey (surveys of land districts in counties made prior to distribution of land by lottery, 1805-1833), and Headright and Bounty Plats of 1783-1909.
