MO USPLSS

Articles pertaining to the United States Public Land Survey System, the General Land Office surveys and the Surveyor General in Missouri:

Important information to know

Read my new book:
It Was Not Quick and It Was Not Simple: The Saga of Private Land Claims in Missouri (go to book)

Grants of Land in Upper Louisiana  (go to article)

Upper Louisiana in Transition  (go to article)

Claims to Land and the First Board of Commissioners  (go to article)

Antoine Soulard:  Surveyor General for Upper Louisiana  (go to article)

Boundary Survey of General Series Survey 2969 in Missouri: Soulard vs. General Land Office (go to article)

Silas Bent:  Principal Deputy Surveyor - Part One  (go to article)

Claims to Land and the Board of Revision  (go to article)

Silas Bent:  Principal Deputy Surveyor - Part Two  (go to article)

Daniel Boone's Claim to Land in Upper Louisiana (go to article)

Claims to Land and the Opinions of the Recorder of Land Titles (go to article)

Claims to Land and the Fifth Principal Meridian (go to article)

GLO Surveys of Town and Village Lots  (go to article)


New Madrid Claims in Missouri  (go to article)

Preemption in Missouri: Squatter Claims to Land  (go to article)

Claims to Land and the District Court of Missouri  (go to article)

Claims to Land in Missouri and the Second Board of Commissioners  (go to article)

Claims to Land in Missouri after 1836 (go to article)

Researching U. S. Surveys in Missouri  (go to article)


See New Plat?  (go to article)

GLO Sub-Contractors, Sub-Deputies and Assistant Surveyors  (go to article)

Erroneous Surveys by K. W. Barton in Missouri  (go to article)

General Series Survey No. 3037 in Missouri  (go to article)


General Land Office Contracts

Joseph C. Brown's contract dated September 15, 1835  (go to contract)

Prospect K. Robbins' contract dated October 9, 1815  (go to contract)



Interesting information

Deposition of Pierre Boyer, July 1825  (go to article)

Deposition of Robert McCay, August 1825  (go to article)

Surveyor General Comments on Little Prairie, Missouri  (go to article)

French and English land measures formerly used in Missouri  (go to article)

Surveyor General William Rector's Connections  (go to article)

Deputies of Silas Bent, 1807-1811  (go to article)


Analysis of specific situations

Analysis of Section 3, Township 31 North, Range 2 East, 5th Principal Meridian, Missouri  (go to article)

Analysis of Section 6, Township 47 North, Range 29 West, 5th Principal Meridian, Missouri  (go to article)



Examples of Odd Lots of the United State Public Land Survey System in Missouri

Odd Lots in Township 34 North, Range 6 West, Section 6, Missouri  (go to article)

Odd Lots in Township 34 North, Range 6 West, Section 2, Missouri  (go to article)

Odd Lots in Township 34 North, Range 6 West, Section 18, Missouri  (go to article)


Pertaining to Surveys in Arkansas

1824 April 15 - Letter from William Russell to William Rector  (got to letter)

1824 April 29 - Letter from Major William Bradford to William Rector  (go to letter)

1824 April 30 - Letter from Governor James Miller to William Rector  (go to letter)


Sainte Genevieve & New Bourbon Series Surveys

Block 3  (go to description)

Survey 141 - Louis Leclere  (go to description)

Survey 142 - Vital Beauvais  (go to description)

Survey 143 - Veuve Leclere's legal representatives  (go to description)

Survey 144 - Veuve Leclere's legal representatives  (go to description)

Block 4  (go to description)

Survey 145 - Veuve Vital Beauvais  (go to description)

Survey 146 - John Baptiste Vallé senior  (go to description)

Survey 353 - Vital Beauvais' legal representatives  (go to description)

Block 5  (go to description)

Survey 147 - Jean Baptiste Moreau  (go to description)

Survey 148 - John B. Pratte's legal representatives  (go to description)

Survey 149 - John Bte. Pratte senior's legal representatives  (go to description)

Survey 150 - School land  (go to description)

Block 8  (go to description)

Survey 151 - Francois Vallé's legal representatives  (go to description)

Survey 152 - John Baptiste Pratte senior  (go to description)

Survey 153 - Veuve Bolduc's legal representatives  (go to description)

Survey 154 - Louis Bolduc's legal representatives  (go to description)

Survey 155 - Jacques Courtois' legal representatives  (go to description)

Block 9  (go to description)

Survey 156 - Nicholas Laplante's legal representatives  (go to description)

Survey 157 - Francois Moreau's legal representatives  (go to description)

Survey 158 - John Baptiste Vallé senior  (go to description)

Survey 159 - John Baptiste Vallé senior  (go to description)

Survey 349 - Francis Moreau's legal representatives  (go to description)

Survey 359 - School land  (go to description)

Block 15  (go to description)

Survey 167 - Parfait Dufour  (go to description)

Survey 168 - Nicholas Roussin's legal representatives  (go to description)

Survey 169 - Francois Lalumendiere's legal representatives  (go to description)

Survey 358 - School land  (go to description)

Block 18  (go to description)

Survey 175 - The Roman Catholic Congregation of Sainte Genvevieve  (go to description)

Survey 176 - The Inhabitants of Sainte Genevieve  (go to description)

Block 24

Survey 183 - Jacques Guibourd's legal representatives  (go to description)


Survey 352 - Nicholas Janis under John Baptiste Labreche  (go to description)