Field notes of private surveys, 1809-1837.

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Field notes of private surveys, 1809-1837.

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Private claim survey field notes include items from Kaskaskia District militia, improvement, and ancient grants; Illinois claims near the Wabash River formerly contained in the Vincennes Tract; and claims near Peoria. Survey field notes usually contain survey date; surveyor name; present claimant name; survey number; claim number; claimed tract acreage; claimant names and survey numbers for adjoining tracts; tract boundary line descriptions ; bodies of water which boundaries encounter; distance between posts and/or other marking features; and intersections with federal township exterior section lines. Occasionally plats are included which show dimensions of boundary lines in poles and often indicate directions of true and magnetic meridians with variation between the two given in degrees and minutes. Original field notes exist for most surveys conducted April 1809 - April 1814, or numbers 356-794.

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