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From: "Mike Landwehr" <>
Subject: Re: [MO-OREGON-HISTORY] land/state question discussion
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 22:58:47 -0500
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Lanita,

I just took a look at the BLM site. Assuming their records are correct, it
appears that there were several thousand sales of public land in a number of
different Missouri Territory counties in 1819, but no public land sales in
prior years, and no sales in 1820. They started again in 1821. All the
sales I saw were for 160 acres or more.

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lanita Sconce Smith" <>
To: "Oregon Co.History List History List" <>
Sent: Sunday, February 03, 2008 8:46 PM
Subject: [MO-OREGON-HISTORY] land/state question discussion


> Okay, I am researching a couple of families for a co-worker, and I
> checked the Bureau of Land Management - General Land Office Records
> website... there, I find 2 men with same last name who bought land in
> Jan of 1819 in 2 different counties..
>
> Since Missouri did not become a state until 1821, how on EARTH did they
> come up with that????? I know we were the Missouri Territory then, but
> certainly, the particular counties were not formed yet....
>
> Anybody got an idea?
>
> Lanita
>
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