Abstracts from surveyor's field notes of land contained in Northeastern District, transcribed 1850.

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Abstracts from surveyor's field notes of land contained in Northeastern District, transcribed 1850.

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Abstracts were made by Surveyor General's Office from RS 953.005, Federal land surveyor's [sic] field notes, for use in Northeastern Land District Office. Method of marking each corner of an exterior section of quarter section or an interior section of quarter section is specified. Method most frequently used was either post in mound or witness tree described by species, diameter, directional bearing and distance from actual corner. When bodies of water are found in twnship abstract also includes rough plat.

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United States. Surveyor General

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Federal land surveys in Illinois were authorized by Congressional act (March 26, 1804), when the U. S. Surveyor General was given jurisdiction over all public land north of the Ohio and east of the Mississippi Rivers. Surveys began in the western Vincennes Tract (1804) and southern Illinois (1806), then proceeded northward; covering all but most northern Illinois by 1831. When the Illinois surveys began, the Surveyor General was an independent officer under the President's direct su...

United States. General Land Office. Northeastern District.

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The Northeastern Land District Office was created at Chicago by Congressional act of June 26, 1834. District, formerly part of Danville District, was made up of part of land lying north of line separating townships thirty and thirty-one north of baseline for second and third principal meridians. The Receiver at Chicago was designated as depository for U.S. Treasury under 1846 Congressional act. In this capacity he received fees for patents and caveats on inventions, customs collected at Chicago ...