Land rights records for property included in the Maxwell Land Grant, c. 1882-1930.

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Land rights records for property included in the Maxwell Land Grant, c. 1882-1930.

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Assorted court records and land deeds related to land originally included in the Maxwell Land Grant. Includes a quit-claim deed for land in San Miguel County, New Mexico, between Madison Calhoun and Henry M. Porter (1882); court records related to Eliza C. Winburn vs. Alice Clara Heck et al. (including Lucien B. Maxwell, Charles Beaubien, and the Maxwell Land Company), 1930; a warranty deed between J.A. Heyde and Company and Thomas P. James for land in Union County, New Mexico (1906); a grid map of land belonging to the Vinson Land Company in Otero County, Colorado; and court papers for Walter Clement et al. vs. William H. Dyer and Charles F. Whitcher regarding the Maxwell Land Grant and Good Fairy Mine (1897). Also includes a manuscript entitled "Fortunes in Western Lands," which speculates on the future of gold mining and territory expansion in the western United States, and some business correspondence belonging to Charles Springer, mainly related to his highway activities in Oklahoma and New Mexico. The donor, Rev. F. Stanley, was the author of The grant that Maxwell bought (1952).

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Doggett, V.A.,

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Maxwell Land Grant Company

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Commercial association with headquarters in Amsterdam and offices in New Mexico and Colorado. Involved in mining, timber, coal, farming, irrigation projects. From the description of Coal reports, 1891-1901. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 54053445 On January 8, 1841, Guadalupe Miranda and Charles Hipolite Trotier de Beaubien petitioned Governor Manuel Armijo for a tract of land, which Armijo granted two years later. Miranda moved to Mexico and offered Beaubien h...

Springer, Charles

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Hardy, Charles Jeffrey, 1956-

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Hardy was a colonial governor of New York State. From the description of Letter, 1755 September 22. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122519454 ...

Avery, Cyrus S.,

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Calhoun, Madison,

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