Everett, Tina, and other interested listers, Here are a couple of links that should provide the information that you seek. 1st, here's the location of maps from 1895 for all of the counties in Illinois: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/maps/illinois/il1875/ You can scroll down to WILLIAMS.JPG and click on that, or you can go straight to it with the following: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/maps/illinois/il1875/WILLIAMS.JPG These maps have the townships and ranges on them and show the locations of the sections within each township and range block. You need to know not only the township (10 south in your case) but also the range (1, 2, 3, or 4 east for Williamson Co.). These maps are old and some place names may have changed or be missing; however, the township/range/section information will not have moved. Finally, here is a good link for an explanation of the public land system as it pertains to Illinois: http://www.sos.state.il.us/depts/archives/data_lan.html#location This page shows how the system is organized. There is also a link to a neat map of Illinois with all of the sections laid out. The map is in Adobe's PDF format. Hope this helps, Bill in Katy, TX Tina Hall wrote: > > Please share the answer on the list as I would also be interested in knowing > the answers. > > happy hunting, > Tina Hall > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Everett Spitzner" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 1:01 PM > Subject: [ILWILLIA] Land Location > > > I have received from the Federal Land Office a Certificate of Purchase > from > > the General Land Office. The location of the land is > > in Williamson Co described as follows "The North half of the North West > > quarter and the South West quarter of the North West quarter and the East > > half of the North East quarter of Section Thirty Five in Township Ten" Can > > anyone tell me where this is? > > > > Second question, does anyone know where I can purchase a map of Williamson > > Co that shows the different Townships? I finding out that I have a lot > more > > relatives in Williamson Co that I thought. > > > > Thank you. > > Everett Spitzner