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From: Beth Cooper <>
Subject: Re: [MO-OREGON-HISTORY] MO-OREGON-HISTORY Digest, Vol 2, Issue 127
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 07:01:50 -0800 (PST)


Pat, Congrats on your find!
Marvelous!

Did Jabel Putnam have another given name that you know?
I'm wondering if they were connected to ones in Lawrence Co., MO in
1870. Had noticed those not long ago when I was looking for something else there.
Did you have a location prior to Oregon Co., MO?
Beth

P.S. Your relatives are in the general vicinity of where my Brashear(s) were
much later.





I recently found the location of the land that Jabel Putnam got in Oregon
CO. It is W1/2NW-12-N-6W NO 5th PM; SWSW-17-22-N-6W NO 5th PM;
SESE-18-22-N-6W NO 5th PM. I can find this by satelite, but I want to know
where it actually is in the county. Satelite maps still confuse me. Little
maps with squares on them are easier for me. I'll truely appreciate this as
it is the first hint of where my family lived when they first migrated into
Oregon County. The Homestead date is May 20, 1862. But, they aren't on a
census there until 1880.

If there is anyone available to do land research, I'd like that too. The
Society has been helpful with other research, but I don't know if they do
land history. I'd like to know when the land passed to the next owner
and its history until at least the 1930s.
Pat Miller
Dallas,TX


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Hi Pat,

I think I can help you with the land location. First, the information you
provided represents legal descriptions of three separate tracts of land that
were homesteaded as one farm. There is a number missing in the description
of the first of the three tracts, so I went back to the land records to get
the missing number. I also noted that the section number was incorrect in
your description of the first tract of land, so I'm going to list the
correct description for each of the three tracts:

1) The West 1/2 of the Northwest 1/4 of Section 20 in Township 22 North of
Range 6 West
2) The Southwest 1/4 of the Southwest 1/4 of Section 17 in Township 22
North of Range 6 West
3) The Southeast 1/4 of the Southeast 1/4 of Section 18 in Township 22
North of range 6 West

I don't know a real good way to draw a picture in an email to describe the
farm, but I'll give it a try. The farm was 160 acres in size. Think of the
160 acres as being made up of four square 40-acre plots of ground, each 1/4
mile by 1/4 mile in size. We'll represent each of these square 40-acre
plots by an "x". The farm, then, was shaped like this:

x x
x
x

The northeast corner of the farm was located 2 1/4 miles south, and 1/4 mile
west, of the center of Koshkonong. The southeast corner of the farm was
located roughly 1/4 mile north and 1/4 mile west of Grand Gulf.

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