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Florida Land Law of 1842 President John Tyler signed the Florida land law on August 4, 1842. Its aim was to send civilians to settle and protect the land the army had wrested from the Seminoles after the long and bloody Second Seminole War. The Act provided each settler applicant with a 160-acre plot of land a year's supply of food and provisions. To obtain a "patent" or permanent title to the land, the settler had to erect a dwelling, cultivate a minimum of five acres, and live on the land for at least five years.
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