Lowrie, Walter; Clark, Matthew St. Clair; et al. American State Papers. Public Lands (8 volumes) Class 8, Vols. 1-8. Documents of the Legislative and Executive, of the Congress of the United States...&c. Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1832-1861. First Editions. [11599]
Sometime rebound in brown buckram, ex library with labels to spines, ink stamps on the end papers, rest clean. 13 x 8 1/2 inches. Each volume about 900 pages. Will ship in several parcels. Good. Hardcover.
These eight volumes cover the years 1789 to 1837, and includes all of the documents pertaining to internal developments in connection with the government of the United States. They show, in minute detail, the young nation as it expands westward.
These books are necessary for anyone studying the history of this period. They are full of primary information and accounts unavailable elsewhere.
Vol. I. - Land Claims in the Northwest Territory; Virginia Military Bounty Lands; Indian Grants; Indiana territory; Land titles in Michigan Territory; Disputed Lands between New York and Massachusetts; Reservations in Ohio; Mississippi; Nachez; etc.
Vol. II. - Table of contents detached. Covers 1809 to 1815 with much on New Orleans, St. Louis, Kaskaskia, and the new settlements and territories of the Louisiana Purchase.
Vol. III. - 1816 to 1824. Continues Western Expansion. Indian matters in Georgia and elsewhere, lead and copper mines; list of person settling with less than 400 acres in the area of Kaskaskia, Illinois; Land Claims in Louisiana and Missouri; the Christian Indians of Ohio; the Stockbridge Indians on the White River, Indiana; etc. With large folding 1816 Sketch of the Lead Mine District, Washington County, Missouri Territory. Also, Plates: Louisiana 1805, County of Natchitoches; Map of the Village of Peoria; Map of Indian Trail to Alachua from River St. Johns; Vacant Lands near the Indian River; 2 additional plates of vacant land, 7 total plates.
Vol. IV. - Similar content to 1827, with the addition of military matters, lands for schools, claims in Louisiana, Florida, with some sketches of boundaries in the text.
Vol. V. - 1827 to 1829. The expanding, growing young country continues to deal with land claims, in addition to lands for schools, nines, emigrants, cultivation of specific items (grapes, olives); and asylum in Kentucky for teaching the deaf and dumb; Cherokee Indians entitled to lands; Colleges in Ohio; Improvement of Rivers; Land for a Poor-House; for the Cumberland Hospital; etc. Includes a large folding map of Four Townships in Marengo County, Alabama, granted to the French Emigrants, 1817; and Sketch of part of the State of Louisiana, 1827.
Vol. VI. - The early 1830's include more about internal developments, including canals, embankments, bridges, roads, education institutions, and the beginnings of transition to railroads. Also, matters regarding lands "acquired" from various Indian tribes. Records of public lands sold and unsold. Military bounty land. Many survey reports. There are scores of individual land claims in all parts of the United States & Territories.
Vol. VII. - Similar content. Indian reservations. Settlement of Polish Exiles. Fraud investigations. Canals, railroads.
Vol. VIII. - Similar content, internal developments. Indian lands and reservations. Lands and land claims for western settlers.
