Jackson Court House land claims - Meigs and Barton transmittal letters, 1820

About this source

Meigs transmits reports numbered 1-9. Barton describes the claims registers, Mobile town-lot evidence, and the competing claims of Joseph M'Candless and Regis Bernody. These letters describe the submission of evidence, not a final judicial determination of ownership. The received PDF puts some continuation tables before the beginning of Register No. 1; that scan order is preserved and explicitly noted.

Date

1820-11-17

Credits

Josiah Meigs (November 16 letter); W. Barton, Register (August 17 letter)

Publisher

Gales & Seaton, Washington; printed by order of the U.S. Senate

Where to find it

25 received scan pages. Selected title and letters: printed pages 3-4. Image PDF: 3 pages; Text PDF: 2 pages. Original table order preserved; see completeness note.

Reference collection

U.S. Government Publishing Office, GovInfo, Congressional Serial Set

AI-assisted transcription visually compared with the selected source images by Codex; no independent human proofread. Bracketed text is editorial. The source scan remains authoritative. Historical names and abbreviations retained, including Bernody as printed. The letters are dated November 16 and August 17; November 17 is the publication-order date on the title leaf.

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