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Maxwell Land Grant : Patented May 19, 1879
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Land rights records for property included in the Maxwell Land Grant
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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
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Report on the boundaries of the Antoine Leroux land grant
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Certified report by U.S. Deputy Surveyor W.H. McBroom describing the boundaries of the Antoine Leroux land grant no.47, near Taos, New Mexico. Also includes a map of the grant lands and surrounding areas and statements on the land from Jose Martin Maes, Pascal Martinez, Antonio Sanchez, and Suaquin A. Garcia.
mssHM 74609
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Map showing the land grant of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in Montana, Idaho and in part of North Dakota and in part of Eastern Washington, reaching from Dickinson, North Dakota to Ritzville, Eastern Washington
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Alt. title from cover. Verso text mentions the Census of 1890 and the increase in population since then. Verso goes to great lengths to entice land buyers to the region. Green shading denotes the Land Grant of the N.P. Railroad. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Polyconic. Printing Process: Lithography.
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Sectional Map of Colfax and Mora Counties, New Mexico : Compiled from the original plats in the Surveyor General's office at Santa Fe, New Mexico and from private surveys by the Maxwell Land Grant Company
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Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Lithography.
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Chorographical Map of the Province of New York in North America, Divided into Counties, Manors, Patents and Townships; Exhibiting likewise all the private Grants of Land made and located in that Province; Compiled from Actual Surveys deposited in the Patent Office at New York
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An enormous wall map, measuring 6 feet by almost 5 feet, canvas backed. Kashnor notes, "Shows the military grants made in Oct. 1763, around Lake George and Lake Champlain. A magnificent map of the Province of New York on the eve of Independence, taking in that part which was afterward erected into the State of Vermont, in fact the map is the title-roll to the early land holders in Vermont." Compass Rose. . Prime meridian: London. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: Miles. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 105 #120.
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