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Folder 1155

 Container

Contains 1 Collection or Record:

Registered receipts issued by the receiver of public monies, Mobile, ALabama, for lands entered under the Homestead Act, 1869 - 1871

 File — Folder: 1155
Identifier: Ledger 27:
Scope and Contents note From the Collection: This collection consists of ledgers containing Land Commission correspondence; applications for land in Mississippi and Alabama territories; copies of land grants from England, France and Spain to residents in Mobile; marriage contracts; wills; and plats of grants, 1783-1813. Ledger 17 contains diary entries by James E. Henderson of Co. C, 12th Iowa Infantry, who was assistant provost marshall in Alabama in 1865. Several ledgers have been indexed by name.The collection also contains...
Dates: 1869 - 1871