U.S. St. Stephen's Land Office - Receivers' ledgers, 1800-ca.1829.

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U.S. St. Stephen's Land Office - Receivers' ledgers, 1800-ca.1829.

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District land office Receivers were responsible for all financial transactions relating to the sale of public lands. Receiver's ledgers are not true ledgers, but contain ledger-type entries in chronological order providing information on accounts for land bought on the credit system. The entries are in chronological order by date of sale, with several entries per page under the buyer's name. Each entry contains the buyer's name and the location of the tract of land. The journals are double-entry with summarized debits to the left and credits to the right. Usually the final payment was recorded several years after the initial payment. Some volumes include a name index. These records provide information on purchasers and reflect the often lengthy process by which purchasers obtained land on credit.

15 volumes.

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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 ...