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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Manuscripts
Report on the boundaries of the Antoine Leroux land grant
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Manuscripts
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Grant of land to John Simpson, former sergeant in the Seventh Regiment, per act of Congress granting land to the late Army of the United States. Grant for 160 acres in Arkansas. Signed by President James Monroe; also signed by Commissioner of the General Land Office Josiah Meigs.
mssHM 34004
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Grant of land to John Hedges, father and heir of John Hedges, deceased, former private in Quackenboss?'s 41st regiment, per act of Congress granting land to the late Army of the United States. Grant for 160 acres in Illinois. Signed by President James Monroe; also signed by Commissioner of the General Land Office Josiah Meigs. Printed form, filled in by hand.
mssHM 42366
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Grant of land to Robert N. Chadsey, former private in the Seventh Regiment, per act of Congress granting land to the late Army of the United States. Grant for 160 acres in Illinois. Signed by President James Monroe; also signed by Commissioner of the General Land Office Josiah Meigs. Printed form, filled in by hand.
mssHM 49485
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Letters patent for tract of 164 acres of land in Lincoln, Nebraska. Signed in secretarial hand for President Ulysses S. Grant; also signed by J. Parrish, secretary, and by the recorder of the General Land Office. Printed form, filled in; includes docket.
mssHM 26199
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Land grant of John Stephens from George IV for 100 acres of land in the County of Oxford, London District, Ontario, Canada. Document witnessed by Sir Peregrine Maitland, lieutenant-governor of Upper Canada.
mssHM 74099
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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).
mssHM 73257-73268