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Field Notes for Indian and Military Lands/Reserves

Creator: United States. Surveyor General of Kansas and Nebraska

Date: 1827B-1869

Level of Description: Series

Material Type: Government record

Call Number: Unavailable

Unit ID: 193359

Space Required/Quantity: 1.30 cubic feet

Title (Main title): Field Notes for Indian and Military Lands/Reserves

Scope and Content

Scope and content: Includes survey field notes for Indian reservations in the Kansas and Nebraska territories, including records from before the Surveyor General's office was created. Includes notes for the Cherokee Neutral Lands (1867); Chippewa of Swan Creek and Black River (1847); Delaware (1854); Kickapoo, Missouri, Pottawatomie, Quapaw, Sac & Fox, Shawnee, Wea & Piankeshaw, Peoria & Kaskasia, 1830s-1860; and the Wyandotte, Delaware, Iowa, & Kansa mixed bloods from the years 1827 & the 1850s-1860s as well as notes from the 1854 survey of the Fort Leavenworth military reservation. Includes general surveys of entire reservations and surveys for individual claimants. Field notes identify location, markers set, environmental conditions & other geographical items of note, and other work performed. See also series 196632, Land Survey Field Notes; 192951, Land Survey Plats and Field Notes for Indian and Military Reserves; as well as the various series of plats, diagrams, and maps visually showing Indian and military reservation lands.

Partial Contents: Box 13, folder 10 contains field notes for the Wyandotte Float lands and the documentation by Samuel C. Pomeroy, Nov. 17, 1856, of his purchase of one Wyandotte Float that belonged to Joseph L. Tenesy, and one float bought by Johnston Lykins from Jared S. Dawson, then purchased by Pomeroy.

Locators:

Locator Contents
027-01-07-05 to 027-01-07-07  1827B-1869 
064-14-05-02  Townships 27, 29, and 30 of the Cherokee Neutral Lands, 1867 

Related Records or Collections

Related materials:
United States, Surveyor General of Kansas and Nebraska. Land Survey Field Notes, [ca. 1856]-2006; 608 v.; ser. 196632; http://www.kshs.org/archives/196632

United States, Surveyor General of Kansas and Nebraska. Land Survey Plats and Field Notes for Indian and Military Reserves, [ca. 1827]-1868; 0.4 ft. (1 box + 1 oversize folder); ser. 192951; http://www.kshs.org/archives/192951

Index Terms

Subjects

    United States. Surveyor General of Kansas and Nebraska -- Records and correspondence
    Fort Leavenworth (Kan.)
    Indian reservations -- Kansas
    Indians of North America -- Relocation -- Kansas
    Military reservations -- Kansas
    Topographical surveying -- Kansas

Creators and Contributors


Agency Classification:

    Federal Agencies. U.S. Department of the Interior. U.S. Surveyor General of Kansas & Nebraska.