302 pages with 53 total maps Locating original landowners in maps
has never been an easy task-until now. This volume in the Family
Maps series contains newly created maps of original landowners
(patent maps) in what is now Jefferson County, Illinois, gleaned
from the indexes of the Illinois State Archives. But it offers much
more than that. For each township in the county, there are two
additional maps accompanying the patent map: a road map and a map
showing waterways, railroads, and both modern and many historical
city-centers and cemeteries. Included are indexes to help you
locate what you are looking for, whether you know a person's name,
a last name, a place-name, or a cemetery. The combination of maps
and indexes are designed to aid researchers of American history or
genealogy to explore frontier neighborhoods, examine family
migrations, locate hard-to-find cemeteries and towns, as well as
locate land based on legal descriptions found in old documents or
deeds. The patent-maps are essentially plat maps but instead of
depicting owners for a particular year, these maps show original
landowners, no matter when the transfer from the federal government
was completed. Dates of patents typically begin near the time of
statehood and run into the early 1900s. What's Mapped in this book
(that you'll not likely find elsewhere) . . . 6006 Parcels of Land
(with original landowner names and patent-dates labeled in the
relevant map) 102 Cemeteries plus . . . Roads, and existing Rivers,
Creeks, Streams, Railroads, and Small-towns (including some
historical), etc. What YEARS are these maps for? Here are the
counts for parcels of land mapped, by the decade in which the
corresponding land patents were issued: DecadeParcel-count 1810s182
1820s26 1830s970 1840s685 1850s3514 1860s147 1870s316 1880s413
1890s160 1900s31 What Cities and Towns are in Jefferson County,
Illinois (and in this book)? Bakerville, Baldwin Heights, Belle
Rive, Bluford, Bonnie, Boyd, Camp Ground, Cravat, Dareville,
Divide, Dix, Drivers, Emerson City, Fitzgerrell (historical),
Harmony, Harris Grove (historical), Idlewood, Ina, Jefferson City,
Lynchburg (historical), Marcoe, Markham City, Marlow, Morganville,
Mount Vernon, Nason, Opdyke, Pigeon (historical), Roaches,
Scheller, Shields, Shirley, Spring Garden, Stratton, Summersville,
Texico, Waltonville, Webster Hill Estates, Williamsburg, Woodlawn
General
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