Box 1159
Container
Contains 4 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence, original, handwritten letters from St. Stephens, Alabama, office to Washington, DC, 1839 - 1843
File — Box: 1159, Folder: 6
Identifier: Ledger 06:
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:
1839 - 1843
Correspondence, letters of instruction from the general land office to the St. Stephens land office, 1850
Item — Box: 1159, Folder: 7
Identifier: Ledger 07:
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:
1850
Correspondence, letters from John Wilson, land commissioner, to the St. Stephens land office, 1854
File — Box: 1159, Folder: 8
Identifier: Ledger 08:
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:
1854
Correspondence, press copy letter book. Letter from St. Stephens, Alabama, to the commissioner, General Land Office, Washington, DC, 1854 - 1857
File — Box: 1159, Folder: 9
Identifier: Ledger 09:
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:
1854 - 1857