Matthew T. Scott papers, 1831-1930.

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Matthew T. Scott papers, 1831-1930.

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A collection of business diaries, letters, rental agreements, deeds, abstracts of title, contracts, promissory notes, tax receipts relating to the establishement and development of a 55,000 acre frontier estate in McLean, Livingston, Ford, Piatt, Coles, Champaign, Iroquois, Vermilion, Woodford, LaSalle, and Macon Counties, Illinois, and a 5,000 acre estatein Mills, Monona, Montgomery, Calhoun, and Cass Counties, Iowa, by Matthew T. Scott, Jr., of Lexington, Kentucky, acting in conjunction with various members of the Scott family and James Robbins, Stephen Swift, George W. Brand, William H. Latham, Richard and Joel Higgins, James Suydam, Courtney Pickett, and Samuel P. Humphreys. Earliest papers dated 1831 include two letters written by Rev. Lewis W. Green as a student at Yale and at the Theological Seminary, Princeton, to Willis Green of Danville, Kentucky. Notebooks and papers dating from 1852 describe in detail entries of land from the Federal Government, purchases from private individuals, purchase and sale of land warrants, development of tenant farms in McLean County, costs of breaking prairie, construction of houses, fences, well digging, planting of fruit trees, purchase of farm equipment, seed, stock, hiring of farm hands, and records of crop yields. Also, information on development of Chenao, the partnerships between Scott and others, financial agreements, tax difficulties, land sales, and rental agreements.

4.5 cubic ft., 5 v.

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