Tract books of land sold within Edwardsville District, 1820-1870.

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Tract books of land sold within Edwardsville District, 1820-1870.

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Land sales were entered in tract books by legal description, presumably to ensure that any given tract was not sold more than once. Entries for each tract sold include tract legal description; purchase name and residence; sales date; and acreage. Tract books occasionally include receiver's receipt number and entry cancelation date. Swamp land tracts are noted with date of the Congressional act under which they were so declared. Military tract sales (Sept. 1830 - March 1833), which became part of the Quincy District on March 2, 1833, were entered at Edwardsville. After August 8, 1855 tracts within the Edwardsville District were sold at the Springfield Land District Office.

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United States. Edwardsville Land Office.

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The Edwardsville Land District Office (1816-1855), created by a Congressional act on April 29, 1816, was originally assigned all Kaskaskia District land north of the third principal meridan baseline. District boundaries changed when the newly created Springfield land office (1822) assumed jurisdiction over all land north of the separation line between townships thirteen and fourteen, and when a Congressional act (March 2, 1833) transferred additional district land to the Quincy and Vandalia Dist...

United States. Quincy Land Office.

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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. Springfield Land Office.

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