Hello Group, Found this information today and thought it might help some of you out. Good luck, Christine Sacramento State of Illinois, Public Domain Land Tract Sales Archive (gopher://uicvm.cc.uic.edu:70/11/library/libdb/landsale). PHELAN CORNELIUS June 23, 1847 Federal sale (FD) Purchaser: PHELAN CORNELIUS Record ID: 245876 Date: 06/23/1847 Acres: 40 Price: $1.25 Type of sale: Federal sale (FD) County: 29 Section: 10 Section Part: NESE Township: 03N Range: 03E Meridian: 4 Purchaser Res: Arch. Vol. No: 697 Vol. Page No.: 142 Cash warrant code: Record corrected: 0 PHELAN GIDEON J May 9, 1849 Federal sale (FD) Purchaser: PHELAN GIDEON J Record ID: 303357 Date: 05/09/1849 Acres: 160 Price: 0.0 Type of sale: Federal sale (FD) County: 44 Section: 9 Section Part: NW Township: 11S Range: 04E Meridian: 3 Purchaser Res: Arch. Vol. No: 105 Vol. Page No.: 023 Cash warrant code: Record corrected: 0 PHELAN JAMES April 27, 1852 Federal sale (FD) Purchaser: PHELAN JAMES Record ID: 36802 Date: 04/27/1852 Acres: 160 Price: 0.0 Type of sale: Federal sale (FD) County: 32 Section: 12 Section Part: NE Township: 32N Range: 08E Meridian: 3 Purchaser Res: Arch. Vol. No: 685 Vol. Page No.: 017 Cash warrant code: Record corrected: 0 ...........more to follow...............