U.S. St. Stephen's Land Office - Registers' letters from the U.S. General Land Office, 1835.

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U.S. St. Stephen's Land Office - Registers' letters from the U.S. General Land Office, 1835.

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This volume contains bound letters from the U.S. General Land Office to the St. Stephen's Register. Included are several circular letters of general instruction, letters concerning specific disputed cases, and letters concerning the appointment of James McGoffin to the position of register. Several items are signed by Elijah Hayward, U.S. Commissioner of Land. The letters reveal the inner workings of the Register at St. Stephen's.

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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 ...

McGoffin, James.

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Hayward, Elijah

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