Hi RDW, I want to thankyou for helping me understand what allotment stands for and i can pay you a little for running it down. I wonder if Paul's daughter Elizabeth could be found too? Thankyou so very much rdw, peter --- R D Winthrop <RDWinthrop@a1access.net> wrote: > >> ... No. of allotment 33 > > > I believe he was no 30 on the allotment list. > > I'm not sure what that # is but this looks like a > pretty good guess > [although think it transposes age with allotment #] > ... easy to check > by finding the allotment list -- it'll be at NARA > and/or Great Lakes > Regional in Chicago ... it'll take a little while > but if necessary, > I'll try to run it down for you (let me know). > > I can interpret the land location, and you can work > backwards from > that either from local land records (the county > probably has them); it > is probably accessible from the Bureau of Land > Management website at : > > http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ > > >> S 1/2 NE 1/4 Sec 2 Twsp 39 Range 8 Acres 80 > > This line indicates the allotment was 80 acres > comprising the southern > half of the northeast quarter of Section 2 located > in Township 39 / > Range 8 > > "Township" here does not refer to a political > boundary but to the > range/section survey system which blocked out the > Old Northwest into > "townships" containing 36 square-mile sections. > There is a Principle > Meridian and a Baseline for each state surveyed, not > necessarily in > the geographic center but more or less in the middle > -- townships are > denoted as either North or South of the baseline, > Ranges as either > East or West of the Meridian. You need to get your > hands on a survey > map -- is this Wisconsin ?? If so, you won't have a > problem -- Goggle > up terms like "land survey" "map" and "Wisconsin" > and you'll find > what you need ( Wisconsin is good for it ;} ... if > not, get back to us > and I'll help you out. > > The survey Township must be North ... I'd have to > look at the right > state map to see if Range was east or west, but you > may well be able > to figure that out just by locating reserve -- if > it's west of state > center line it's likely west. > > Once you've your finger on Twp 39N / Range 8W (or > E), find Section 2. > The first square mile in the northeast of the > section is #1 and #2 > will be the next one west. Each section is > subdivided into quarters > of 160 acres -- the bottom half of the northeastern > quarter of Section > #2 is the 80 acres comprising the allotment. You > should be able to > find it very easily once you've got a county or > reserve map with the > survey delineated -- 19th century state and county > atlases almost > always have section maps. > > Again, if you need help come on back -- that's what > the list is for. > > happy hunting - rdw > > > ============================== > Expand your family tree. Search more than 200 > million names in > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail