Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales Database

These records can be viewed at http://www.ilsos.gov/GenealogyMWeb/landsrch.html

 Name of Purchaser  Legal     Description  Section Township   Range  Meridian  Date          

 Purchased     County

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1.    COMPSTON ISAAC        W2NE           21    42N    04E    3    06/11/1841    DEKALB    

2.    COMPSTON ISAAC        NWNE           28    42N    04E    3    11/09/1842    DEKALB    

3.    COMPSTON ISAAC        NWSE           21    42N    04E    3    02/19/1846    DEKALB    

4.    COMPSTON ISAAC        SWSE           21    42N    04E    3    11/09/1842    DEKALB    

 

Detailed Information

 

1,    Purchaser: COMPSTON ISAAC  Residence of Purchaser: UNKNOWN  

Legal Description:  Aliquot Parts or Lot: W2NE   Section Number: 21   Township: 42N  

 Range: 04E   Meridan: 3   County of Purchase: DEKALB  

  Details of Sale:  Acres: 80.00   Price per Acre: 1.25  Total Price 100.00  Type of Sale: FD   Date of Purchase: 06/11/1841   Volume: 683   Page: 093  

 

2.  Purchaser: COMPSTON ISAAC  Residence of Purchaser: UNKNOWN  

Legal Description:  Aliquot Parts or Lot: NWNE   Section Number: 28   Township: 42N  

 Range: 04E   Meridan: 3   County of Purchase: DEKALB  Details of Sale:  Acres: 40.00  

 Price per Acre: 1.25   Total Price: 50.00   Type of Sale: FD   Date of Purchase: 11/09/1842   Volume: 683   Page: 096  

 

3.  Purchaser: COMPSTON ISAAC  Residence of Purchaser: UNKNOWN  

Legal Description:  Aliquot Parts or Lot: NWSE   Section Number: 21   Township: 42N  

 Range: 04E   Meridan: 3   County of Purchase: DEKALB  Details of Sale:  Acres: 40.00  

 Price per Acre: 1.25   Total Price: 50.00   Type of Sale: FD   Date of Purchase: 02/19/1846   Volume: 683   Page: 093  

 

4.  Purchaser: COMPSTON ISAAC  Residence of Purchaser: UNKNOWN  Legal Description:  Aliquot Parts or Lot: SWSE   Section Number: 21   Township: 42N   Range: 04E   Meridan: 3   County of Purchase: DEKALB  Details of Sale:  Acres: 40.00   Price per Acre: 1.25   Total Price: 50.00   Type of Sale: FD   Date of Purchase: 11/09/1842  

 Volume: 683   Page: 093  

Land sales from the public domain were recorded by field employees of the U.S. General Land Office, state and local officials, and clerks of the Illinois Central Railroad. These records were transferred to the Illinois State Archives for permanent retention in 1957. Because the records are arranged by legal description, a database was developed to allow the records to be searched by name.

The database contains information about nearly 550,000 land sales from the 54,740 square miles of the public domain sold within Illinois. Each purchase entry includes the purchaser's name, purchase date, number of acres, price per acre, numeric code indicating the county in which the land is located, legal description (township, section, range), volume and page numbers of original entry, and variously, the sale type, and the purchaser's sex and residence.