Tract books of land sold within Shawneetown District, 1820-1866.

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Tract books of land sold within Shawneetown District, 1820-1866.

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Land sales were entered in the tract books by legal description, presumably to ensure that tracts were not sold again. Tract sales entries include tract legal description; purchaser name; sales date; and acreage. Occasionally included are Receiver's receipt number; date patent issued or canceled; price per acre; total purchase price; and purchaser residence. Swamp land tract entries provide the date for the Congressional act date under which they were designated. Shawneetown District tracts were sold at the Springfield Land District Office after May 2, 1856.

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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 ...

United States. Shawneetown Land Office

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The Shawneetown Land District Office was created by an act of Congress on February 21, 1812. Part of the new district's land had formerly been attached to the Kaskaskia Land District; and a small portion of the Vincennes (Indiana) District was added to Shawneetown after Illinois' boundaries were established. The first public land sale occurred in Shawneetown on July 18, 1814 after sufficient surveys had been completed. In 1820 the land north of the baseline for the second and third principal mer...