Terrier of grants made to Potawatomi Indians, 1834.

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Terrier of grants made to Potawatomi Indians, 1834.

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Terrier describes land grants made to Potawatomi Indians under Treaty of Camp Tippecanoe on October 20, 1832 including grant history; plat copies; and grant survey field notes transcripts. Grant histories include grant acreage; tract township legal description; name of Deputy Surveyor conducting survey; survey date; surveyor's contract date; and Indian grantee name. Survey plats include boundary dimensions; adjoining tract owner or claimant names; degree and minute variation between true and magnetic meridians.

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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...