GLO Patent Map: The Jones Patents, 1814–1833
The key finding on this page: the patent image for Lewellen Jones's accession CV-0109-122 names "Leroy Pope assignee of Lewellen Jones" — the founder of Huntsville took assignment of Jones's claim. That patent, signed by President James Monroe and Josiah Meigs, Commissioner of the General Land Office, is the signature evidence that the Jones family was doing business inside Huntsville's founding elite circle, and it is why the GLO patent sweep was reprioritized to identify which Pope first.
Dataset note: All thirteen patents below were verified October 2, 2026 from BLM General Land Office records, Huntsville Meridian, Madison County, Alabama — the records do not place them in Morgan County. The seven core patents issued November 20, 1818, under the Credit Volume (Harrison Land Act of April 15, 1800), name either Leroy Pope or David Moore as Lewellen Jones's co-patentee.
Full patent list
Every patent plotted above, in accession order as recorded. Township abbreviations: T = Township (South), R = Range; Huntsville Meridian throughout. The BLM GLO records list all of these in Madison County, Alabama.
Map data & sources
- Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office (BLM GLO) — all thirteen patent records and accession numbers (CV-0109-108, CV-0109-122, CV-0109-124 through CV-0109-129, CV-0107-187, CV-0109-462, CV-0121-066, CV-0125-311, STA-AL1210__.163); Huntsville Meridian survey framework. The patent image for CV-0109-122 was read for the "Leroy Pope assignee of Lewellen Jones" language and the Monroe/Meigs signatures.
- Library of Congress, Geography & Map Division (public-domain reference maps): Map of Madison County, Alabama, 1875 (Mayhew — shows landowners' names); Melish map of Alabama, October 29, 1818 (first large-scale map of Alabama Territory — the land-sale moment); Northern Alabama and Georgia, 1864 (U.S. Coast Survey). Reference layers for reading the patent landscape, not project data.
More Maps in This Project
Cemetery Map →
Burial grounds with verified locations — and an honest list of the ones that can't be pinned yet.
Convict-Leasing Geography →
Jefferson County mine sites and the Madison County origin question, drawn as a clearly-labeled schematic.
Migration Path: Virginia to Alabama →
Louisa and Bedford counties, Virginia → Madison County, Alabama → Tuscaloosa, tracing the Jones/Anderson/Donnell/Perkins network.
Avalon Plantation Boundary (working map) →
The core spatial claim, staged honestly: what the boundary question is and what would resolve it.
If you have documents, family knowledge, or leads on any of these patents or sections, please get in touch.