U.S. St. Stephen's Land Office - case files of private land claims investigated by the Board of Commissioners, 1786-1846.

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U.S. St. Stephen's Land Office - case files of private land claims investigated by the Board of Commissioners, 1786-1846.

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District land offices began setting up Boards of Commissioners in 1803 to investigate private land claims. The Boards gathered evidence, interrogated claimants and witnesses and rendered decisions based on their investigations. These volumes contain case files consisting of transcribed copies (in Eng.) of documents relating to land grants made by the Spanish, French, or English governments in the Mobile, Ala. area. Included are copies of the land grants and accompanying material, such as petitions requesting the grant and affadavits supporting the petition. The parcel of land is usually described in some detail, as is the exact location of the land. Often personal information about the claimant is included to support the claim. Some volumes contain records of surveys of the disputed land which were ordered by the Commissioners, and copies of the patent certificates issued at the completion of the investigation. These records help illuminate the work of the Board of Commissioners in Ala. and provide detailed information concerning land grants made by the British, French and Spanish in the area.

3 volumes.

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Alabama. Secretary of State. Lands Division.

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United States. St. Stephen's Land Office

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Authority: Bush, Evelyn. "United States Land Offices in Alabama, 1803-1879." Alabama Historical Quarterly 17 (1955): 146-153. The St. Stephens Land Office was created by an act of Congress on 1803 Mar. 3 to administer part of the Land District East of the Pearl River. The office opened in 1811 Sept. and was moved to Mobile in 1867. Though the boundaries administered by the office changed several times, the St. Stephens Land Office generally was responsible fo...

United States. General Land Office

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Under regulations approved on March 20, 1915, tracts set aside as villa sites under the provisions of an act of April 12, 1910, within the former Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, were offered for sale at public auction, beginning at Polson, Montana, on July 26, 1915. The sale was adjourned to Dayton, Montana, on August 6 and concluded at Kalispell, Montana, on August 7, 1915. There were 889 parcels of land, not less than 2 nor more than 5 acres in area, fronting on Flathead Lake, and under ...