Appraisals
After BCPL received the grants of land, the land was appraised prior to sale in order to set a minimum sale price, except for those situations where the state legislature set the sale price. The appraisals provided an estimated value of the land itself and any timber on the land, and also included information about the features and quality of the land. A few appraisals contain entries describing settlers occupying the land.
Case Files
State land sales case files document the individual transactions on parcels of land sold by BCPL. In the early years, much of the grant land was sold by BCPL on credit for a period of up to 30 years, thus these files contain a rich collection of information about sales price, yearly payments, transfers of sales contracts, and final payment.