U.S. St. Stephen's Land Office - abstracts of land sold, 1859-1861.

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U.S. St. Stephen's Land Office - abstracts of land sold, 1859-1861.

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These abstracts of land sold provide a checklist of land sold on a daily basis. District land office Registers maintained the abstracts in the district land offices. Each entry contains the date of sale, receipt or certificate number, purchaser's name and residence, tract location, number of acres, price per acre, amount paid in purchase money, and notes. Occasionally the volumes include a monthly recapitulation of number of acres sold and amount of purchase money paid. These volumes document the daily activity of lands sold and may be used in conjunction with Receiver's daybooks and registers.

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Alabama. Secretary of State. Lands Division.

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United States. St. Stephen's Land Office

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Authority: Bush, Evelyn. "United States Land Offices in Alabama, 1803-1879." Alabama Historical Quarterly 17 (1955): 146-153. The St. Stephens Land Office was created by an act of Congress on 1803 Mar. 3 to administer part of the Land District East of the Pearl River. The office opened in 1811 Sept. and was moved to Mobile in 1867. Though the boundaries administered by the office changed several times, the St. Stephens Land Office generally was responsible fo...

United States. General Land Office

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Under regulations approved on March 20, 1915, tracts set aside as villa sites under the provisions of an act of April 12, 1910, within the former Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, were offered for sale at public auction, beginning at Polson, Montana, on July 26, 1915. The sale was adjourned to Dayton, Montana, on August 6 and concluded at Kalispell, Montana, on August 7, 1915. There were 889 parcels of land, not less than 2 nor more than 5 acres in area, fronting on Flathead Lake, and under ...