best you can do today is hire a land surveyor to "bring the patent forward" meaning they figure out where you are in the PLSS and get a certified copy of the patent of the large parent tract you are in, then collect the chain of titles and deeds from the moment of patent to the present day. when you can show that title chain back to "ab initio" you have brought the patent forward.
look up Bernice Speakman (also Burness J. Speakman, Bunny Speakman)
A Legacy Abandoned
The Declaration of Independence created a religious trust. When we won "independence" what we got was a tiny slice of sovereignty that had to be held in trust because the eventual number of heirs was unknown. Specifically to get around the Statute of Charity and Statute of Uses.
There's a video somewhere, I have never found it. Her writings are some of the best I've seen.
start with Springmeir