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United States. General Land Office

 Organization

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

Archibald C. Reed land grants

 Collection — Folder: OB016
Identifier: OB016
Scope and Contents This collection contains 2 land grants issued to Archibald C. Reed or Reid for land in Brookville, Indiana, dated November 13, 1822 and Indianapolis dated March 15, 1837.
Dates: 1822/11/13; 1837/03/15

Daniel Yandes land grant

 Collection — Folder: OB020
Identifier: OB020
Scope and Contents This collection contains a land grant issued to Daniel Yandes for land in Indianapolis dated March 15, 1837.
Dates: 1837/03/15

Eli Wells land grant

 Collection — Folder: OB070
Identifier: OB070
Scope and Contents This collection contains a land grant dated November 15, 1830 issued to Eli Wells in Marion County, Indiana.
Dates: 1830/11/15

Elijah Thacker land grant

 Collection — Folder: S3483
Identifier: S3483
Scope and Contents This collection contains a photostat of a land grant issued to Elijah Thacker for land in Cincinnati, Ohio on June 1, 1816.
Dates: 1816/06/01

Ezra Lamkin land grant

 Collection — Folder: S3484
Identifier: S3484
Scope and Contents This collection contains a photostat of a land grant issued to Ezra Lamkin for land in Cincinnati on May 30, 1816.
Dates: 1816/05/30

George Smith land grants

 Collection — Folder: S3482
Identifier: S3482
Scope and Contents This collection contains photostats of land grants issued to George Smith for land in Cincinnati on June 28, 1821.
Dates: 1821/06/26

Indiana and Illinois boundary collection

 Collection — Folder: S1490
Identifier: S1490
Scope and Contents This collection contains photostats of letters copied from the General Land Office (GLO) records regarding the building of a monument at Lake Michigan to mark the Indiana-Illinois boundary line. Ranging from 1834 to 1838, the correspondence includes the following: Elijah Hayward, commissioner of the GLO, to Secretary of the Treasury R.B. (Roger B.) Taney - June 3, 1834; J.M.M. (John M. Moore), chief clerk of the GLO, to Surveyor General Micajah T. Williams at Cincinnati - September 29, 1834;...
Dates: 1834-1838, undated

Indiana and Michigan boundary collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1491
Scope and Contents This collection contains photostats of correspondence copied from the General Land Office (GLO) records ranging from 1816 to 1835 regarding the boundary between Indiana and Michigan. Correspondents include Josiah Meigs, commissioner of GLO (1814-1822); George Graham, commissioner of the GLO (1823-1830); Elijah Hayward, commissioner of the GLO (1830-1835); Edward Tiffin, Surveyor General of the Northwest Territory, Chillicothe, Ohio (1814-1829); Micajah T. Williams, Surveyor General at...
Dates: 1816-1942

Jesse Kilgour Dubois papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S0384
Scope and Contents This collection consists of correspondence and political and business papers from Jesse Kilgour Dubois ranging from 1830 to 1920 pertaining to his work as Illinois Receiver of Public Moneys (1849-1853), his land investments and interests in land drainage (1840s-1850s); the Illinois State Auditor's office and the presidential campaigns of 1860 and 1864; and Abraham Lincoln's life.There is also a certificate of commission as a major general in 1864 during the U.S. Civil War and copies...
Dates: 1830-1920

John Hynds land grant

 Collection — Folder: OB063
Identifier: OB063
Scope and Contents This collection includes a land grant issued to John Hynds for land near Crawfordsville, Indiana on September 10, 1838.
Dates: 1838/09/10