U.S. St. Stephen's Land Office - minutes of sales, 1811-1848.

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U.S. St. Stephen's Land Office - minutes of sales, 1811-1848.

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These records provide minutes recording the proceedings of public land sales, 1811, 1815-1816, 1819, and 1848. Though the volumes vary from year to year, they generally provide detailed accounts of each auction. Often the election of clerk and cryer is noted, as are names of the receiver and register in attendance. Time and date of commencement and adjournment of sales are also recorded. For each auction transactions are numbered and buyers are listed in order of sale. Each transaction includes the date, bidder's name and county of residence, location of tract bought, number of acres bought, the price per acre and the total price. These records provide a detailed account of public land sales in Ala. Volume SG5232 provides only brief notations of tracts offered for sale and those sold.

3 volumes and 1 folder.

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 ...