Wisconsin letters, 1836-1848.

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Wisconsin letters, 1836-1848.

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Correspondence from Commissioners of the General Land Office, Ethan A. Brown and James Whitcomb, to Secretary of the Treasury Levi Woodbury, President Andrew Jackson, and George W. Jones dealing with a request to open a land office in the Wisconsin Territory; the appointment of George Cabbage, W. W. Correill, and Morton McCarver as commissioners; and the establishment of boundaries and surveying of towns in Wisconsin by surveyor Garret Vliets.

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Whitcomb, James, 1795-1852

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McCarver, Morton.

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Correill, W. W.

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Brown, Ethan Allen, 1776-1852

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American jurist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Cincinnati, to Hon. Smith Thompson Secretary of the Navy, 1822 May 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270903054 Ethan Allen Brown, lawyer and statesman, served as governor of Ohio, 1818-1822, and in the United States Senate, 1822-1825. Philip Van Cortlandt served as an officer in the American Revolution and as a Representative from New York in the United States Congress, 1793-1809. From the descri...

Vliets, Garret.

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