Petition of Richard S. Thomas and Others to U.S. Congress, [6 December 1847 - 3 March
1849], 1
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled;The undersigned, citizens and legal voters of the County of Cass and State of Illinois, would respectfully represent, in reference to the lands granted by the United States
to the State of Illinois, for the use of the inhabitants of the townships hereinafter
mentioned, for the use of schools, as follows, viz.2
The School lands of township nineteen North, of Range Eleven W.[West] of 3 P. M[Principal Meridian]3 ^also all except 200 acres, being (Section 16) of Township 17 North of Range 8 West
of the 3d P. M^–4 Also the School lands (being Section 16) of township Seventeen North, of Range twelve
W. of 3d P. M–5 also the school lands (being Section 16) of township Eighteen North, of Range nine
West of the 3d P. M–6 and also, all except two hundred and thirty acres, of the school lands, (being Section
16) of township Eighteen North, of Range ten West of the 3d P. M,7 ^also all except 400 acres of the school lands (being Sec[Section] 16) of Township 18 Range 11 West–8^ are worthless and therefore wholly unsaleable, and said lands are not only worth
less now, but are so very poor in quality that they must continue so permanently.
So that the inhabitants of said townships can never realize a School fund from said
worthless lands– Each of said townships Contains a considerable number of inhabitants,
& has no other school lands
The undersigned would further represent, that fractional township, Seventeen North,
of Range thirteen W. of the 3d P. M. contains no section numbered Sixteen, and no school lands whatever have ever been
assigned to said ^fractional^ township in lieu of Section Sixteen– So that said fractional township has no school
lands– but contains near one hundred inhabitants.9
In consideration of which premises, the undersigned would respectfully pray that a
law be passed by Congress authorizing the selection of other lands ^for said fractional township &^ belonging to the United States & situated in the state of Illinois, ^for said fractional township & also^ in lieu of said worthless lands– the lands so to be selected to be granted by the
United States to the state of Illinois for the use of the inhabitants of said townships
respectively, for the use of schools– And as in duty bound &c[etc.]
| Richard S. Thomas | Charels Boyd |
| R. G. Gaines | G J Leonard |
| A Naylor | Thomas [Henry?] |
| John Loomis | Jeremiah Cox |
| T J Stone | Jeremiah Cox Jr |
| Geo. Edger | James Jackson |
| James Thompson | John Jackson |
| John W Pratt | T M Davis |
| James Masten | S. B. Thompson |
| J. S Morgan | Sam henderson |
| Richard. D Thompson | Elijah Davis |
| Eli Wilhite | Jno– B; Thompson |
| George Petefish | James B Thompson |
| Jacob Yaples | Jacob H Petefish |
| John R Petefish | Thomas Cooper |
| John Yaples | Jacob Wand |
| J H Bates | Andrew L. Milsted |
| J. N. Craig | Wm Cokeley |
| Amos A [Demeber?] | John H Way |
| Jacob Petefish | |
| S H Petefish | [Gudt?] Paschal |
| Chas Marshall | James Marshall |
| John Marshall | C. H Cathwell |
| C L Pratt | Jacob Ador |
| Wm Conover | Geo. Bedingfield |
| Caspar Ador | Benjamin Decker |
| C A Delameter | Jacob Epler |
| H. Delameter | Abraham Delemeter |
| Samuel Rose | Michael Wittinger |
| H E Massey | Wm Stevenson |
| Robert Clifton | John Elliott |
| John Hankenberry | Augustus Stevenson |
| Christopher Taylor | John J Newton |
| Jonathan Lawrance | L G Lambert |
| Robert Stevenson | |
| Jonathan Powell | Joseph Van Eaton |
| Hugh R Powell | John Bane |
| James Haywood | Hugh Bane |
| Jonathan C Beard | John M [Beard?] |
| Alexander Beard | Jesse Spicer |
| John Elliot | Z. M. Gatton |
| John Gooden | George Carver |
| G. Clendenin | Paschal Harding |
| George W. Wilhite | A. Beard Jr |
| Peyton Harding | Chester Brooks |
| William Black | Wm Carver |
| Geo. M. Weaver | Andrew Jackson Gilpin |
| Thomas G Black | J M Montgomery |
| Saml Montgomery | Abner Tinnen |
| T A Rosenberger | John Rosenberger |
| ^100–^B T Coons | Isaac Epler |
| Julius Elmore | Wm [?] |
| Andrew Waggener | Richard. C. Rout. |
| J. F Bergen | Alfred Massie |
| W B Montgomery | John A Vanzant |
| J C Borgen | Charles B Epler |
| James L Gard | [?] Runyon |
| John Walker | Benjamin Litton |
| P W Runyon | James Conover |
| Isaac N– Redding | Moses Gard |
| Jeremiah Mitchell | James Berry |
| John Conover | Thomas [Boilourd?] |
| H. S. Savage | Thos A Foxworthy |
| [Zaluder?] Wood | James [Gurnee?] |
| Thos Heslep | Wm [?] |
| John McDonald | Eli Cox |
| B. F. Heslep | Arch. Job |
| Rodney [Rummerfield?] | Wm Slack |
| Jesse [I?] Allred | James Darrell |
| Jesse Crews | John Craig |
| Wm Boston | John Murrer |
| James. D. Matthew | Robert Robertson |
| Albert Hickox | Thos Beard |
| Jacob Shrader | John [During?] |
| Julius elmore | Fredrick Miller |
| Darius elmore | John A Morgan |
| Joseph Slack | J W Davis |
| Mark W Delahay | Wm Cole |
| James Taylor | Wm W. Adkins |
| E. R. Saunders | Christian Crum |
| John Treadway | James A Cole |
| John Ream | T [?] Hoffmann |
| Aug [Ther?] Menke | Mark Cooper. |
| Henry Menke | Geo. H. Nolte |
| Jephthah Wayle | Thos J. Burns |
| Samuel M Collins | Orin Warren |
| R. F. Keppenberg | E Thompson |
| Horace Billings | Clark [F.?] Thiele. |
| Wm Chase | [?] [Duohamet?] |
| James. C. Leonard | E S Houghton |
| C S Van [Alster?] | G. W. Madden |
| Page Eaton | Archd Taylor |
| C. J. Norbury | E. I. Dutch Jr |
| Wm S Burch | |
| August [Furope?] | F. Webster Jr |
| William Nisbet | Wm M Gillen |
| L. F. Sanders | |
| V. A. [Turpin?] | John Savage |
| W H H Carpenter | James Shaw |
| Phillipp [Grennel?] | J R [Denber?] |
| H Bolmler | George Kuhl |
| William Kuhl | |
| Joseph W. McClune | Casper Moormann |
| ^200–^Thomas Graham Jr | John H [Rohd?] |
| Geo– Van Ness | Amos B Hodges |
| James McNutt | Zephaniah Ames |
| Wilson Haley | John Richardson |
| J. W. Overall | Noah. M. Rickard |
| W G [?] | James Hope |
| Charles McDonald | John Brown |
| George C. [Frauman?] | Thos R. Saunders. |
| H. S. Swearingen | Mark Whittle |
| Sylvester Emmons | John Gillis |
| R. R. Randall | David L Cross |
| John. B. Taylor | Y. J. Clark |
| Thos P Norton | R. S. Ross |
| Philo T. Norton | Michael Ream |
| James Rogers | John W Mitchell |
| Adam Hageman | Ira Crow |
| Heinrich Tannsfen Ahrens. | Lemon Plaster |
| Daniel. A. [Bland?] | Jas Thomsbury |
| John Bridgewater | William Moore |
| John Deweber | J C Scott |
| ^250–^Peter Miller | Joseph Lee |
| Alvard Beals | Robt Higginson |
| N. H. Downing | John Slack |
| John Beard | Levi L. Wood |
| Thos I. Collins | Wm H H Wood |
| Stephen Lee sr | Wm Cownover |
| William H Samuell | James Cunningham |
| John Mc[Clure?] | John Lee |
| John B N Redmon | E. I. Dutch |
| Alfred Weymouth | John Dutch |
| John McAlluster | |
| B. F. Short. | Lewis [Balme?] |
| Thomas M. Elliott | David Drake |
| . . .on | David T Barr |
| Elihu Miller | John Miller |
| W. D. Mitchell | Robert R Cox |
| Ellis Taylor | John [?] Parrott |
| William Cooper | J E Crow |
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| M. S. Marsh | J H Crow |
| Tyler C. Rees | Wm Crow |
| Gideon Koontz | Jackson Blair |
| William [Hoard?] | James M Short |
| Alexandren Malone | Ellis Potts |
| Harvey H. Walker | Joshua Adkins |
| Wm. [Brisby?] | Phillip A Buraracker |
| ^300–^Joel Potts | Jackson Hamilton |
| Wm M [Henry?] | [Calius?] Caffey |
| Samuel Short | H. W. Montgomery |
| B. F. Montgomery | Wm Mains |
| John Sybrant | Robert Fitzhugh |
| Martin Harding | Milton Trotter |
| A. W. Elder | Johnson [Dickers?] |
| J. T. Dunbar | Orlean Hickox |
| John C [Leorad?] | Eleazer Hickox |
| John Cheetham | Joseph Robertson |
| James S. Daniel | Robert Hamilton |
| Rearzin M Hinchee | Joseph Jewsbury |
| Saml A Hinchee | Richd Jewsbury |
| Smith Willson | John Fairow |
| James J. Isham | Robert Bell |
| Uriah Isham | John Willson |
| Stephen Aherton | Allen Wiggins |
| W. M. Pallett | Samuel Smith |
| David S. Eaton | Charles W. Williams |
| John Hawthorn | James Wyatt |
| Robert G Hawthorn | John M Wyatt |
| Solomon Hurie | Josiah Hurie |
| [Jo]hn Fanshier | |
| . . . H Houghton | Benjamin. H Hawth[orn] |
| James J [Smith?] | |
| Joseph Goble | |
| George Fanshier | Edward L. Bingley |
| Jacob Fanshier | Levi. Smith |
| Francis Moore | Elijah Smith |
| Richard Moore | Amos R Garner |
| Mason Underwood | O. B. Nance |
| Jesse. L. Feant | Hiram Scott |
| J. S. Eaton | Abel H Scott |
| G. S. Eaton | Daniel Dearen |
| John. P. Bixler | Allen Q Nance |
| James Eatherton | James Smith |
| John. L. Witty | Pleasant Rose |
| Thomas Miller | James Bennett |
| Thomas Jones | Joseph Allison |
| Joshua Nance | L M Outten |
| J B Pearce | J. M. [Beadles?] |
| Laurence Clark | George Tureman |
| Wm L. Williams | Wm Haynes |
| William [Hardtt?] | James Seachrist |
| James. S. [Savarage?] | Wm Seachrist |
| Greenbury Rollins | Saml. Seachrist |
| Thomas Stanly | Harvey Seachrist |
| D. Epler | James McHenry |
| John Needham | Wm McHenry |
| D Harnaker | John J Turner |
| Wm Petefish | Alexander Ferguson |
| ^400–^William M Crisp | Allen J Hill |
| Honorias Pence | J. H. Melone |
| Peter Cownover | Hiram Butcher |
| Thomas J Nisbet | John H. Stowe |
| John W. Stevenson | James Mc[?] |
| T. Jeffes^r^on Cosner | John Epler |
| Manson Herndon | Green B Garner |
| Elijah Carver | Oliver Logue |
| William Houghs | Joseph Cosner |
| Elias Matthew | Moses Summers |
| [?]as Lee | Stephen Lee– Jr |
| J. D. Willson | James L Davis |
| John [Long?] | |
| Z. D. Robinson | John Gill |
| A Samples | V G Sims |
| L. B. Griffith | Wm Murry |
| S F Pierce | Wm [Lounsberry?] |
| N. B. Beers | Levi Springer |
| John Robertson | Lucius C Spalding |
| [Am?] Cunningham | Thomas Russell |
| William Rodgers | Edward Dirrur |
| George Cunningham | J M Lampton |
| George Hill | William. Allan |
| Wm Blair | Dav: Blair |
| Little B Freeman | John L. Oneal |
| John. W. Freeman | John Elliot |
| Brierly. H. Job | E. D. Leach |
| C. H. Oliver | Isaac L. Moore |
| F. C. Bulkley | Benjamin Sutton |
| Leland Carpenter | Wm [Cogestell?] |
| [David?] Tiney | John Biddlecome |
| Martin Sutton | James Farow |
| Allen Miller | Cyrus Wright |
| Daniel Biddlecome | James Sargeant |
| Patrick OBrien | Thomas Smith |
| Watson. R. Richardson | William Lucus |
| J. W. Hardy | Charles Lucus |
| Charles Briggs | Lewis Watkins |
| John Lucas | Jacob Griffin |
| [P?] G. Harbert | Charles Skaggs |
| Wm B Campbell | Nathan Sutton |
| George Sutton | J. L. Hawthorn |
| Henry Falon | Wm. P. Morgan |
| John Riley | Squire Hall |
| Hamilton Hall | Andrew I Armstrong |
| Wm T. Gray | Clinton Hickey |
| Benj. Ishmael | Wili^a^m Wilson |
| Wm Ishmael | William Linn |
| Dan’l M. McHenry | Isaac White |
| Amos Dick | John Armstrong |
| Thomas Rhea | Daniel Robinson |
| ^500^James, A– Dick | Sylvester Paddock |
| John. P Dick | H. P. Sutton |
| Peter Whitlow | Dwight. S Money |
| William Friend | Levi McKee |
| Levi Dick | S, Smith, |
| John Leeper | Orren Hicks |
| Marcus Chandler | John Moore |
| August [Roniger?] | Henry M[c]Kee |
| Charles Chandler | Joel W Davis |
| Elisha Olcott | Joseph Harris |
| P. L. Phillips | Oliver Friend. |
| Jacob Chase | Nathaniel Hammond |
| Henry L Ingalls | Amos L Bonney |
| Thos D Lewis | Richard McDonald |
| Charles. D. Marcy | C J Wilson |
| W. S. Talbott | Amos [Boney?] |
| Ellis Hicks | George A Bonney |
| Peter. W. Prichard | [Ransellear?] Child |
| Horace Goodell | Ezra Wheelock |
| [?] [Mc Clussen?] | Adam Reed |
| Perrey Fuller | Davidson Plasters |
| William [T?] Reavis | James K Plaster |
| Robert Fielden | James Carter |
| Samuel B Wilson | James Fielden |
| H. M. Sewall | Robert Carter |
| ^550^Clinton wilson | Joseph Cook |
| John Fielden | Gorge W Glovier |
| Joshua Gipson | Wilson Beard |
| J W [Eveans?] | Joseph Beard |
| T. L. D Proctor | John F Scott |
| W. H. L. Schooley | M. H. Beadle |
| Keeling Berry | A Williams |
| R C Angeir | A. G. Angeir |
| Wm Clark | David Whitmore |
| Levi Bridgewater | E. F. Chester– |
| [Sabis?] Addington | Amasa Reeves |
| Edward Davis | Joshua. P. Crow |
| D Thomas Cury | William Bluhm |
| Daniel Canby | David Furman |
| William Taylor | Saml Shaw |
| John Taylor | Christopher Shafer |
| James Cook | Amos Woodward |
| Patrick Caldwell | W. E. Glover |
| Robert Murray | Remick Cone |
| James Fielden | James Street |
| Michael Pierson | James Carr |
| John Fielden Sr | Coleman Paschal |
| John L Clough | Samuel H leonard |
| Joseph Pierson | Alexander Pierson |
| Milton Logan | Elkanah Ricardson |
| ^600^Jeremiah Bowen | Dennis OBrien |
| Peter [Bauesh?] | George Hill |
| John [Horland?] | [Lodrick?] Collins |
| Hiram [Horrom?] | Cyrus Horham |
| Ezra [?] | Alvy Horham |
| John Pierson | Jonnathan Hutches |
| William E. Cook | Daniel J Cole |
| John Cook | R. S. Cole |
| Niell Taylor | Michal OBrien |
| Joseph Hoskinson | David O’Brien |
| Samuel Logan | Robert Cole |
| Leiman Horrom | D Carr |
| Wm T Pedigo | John C Cook |
| Isaac Ashlock | N S baker |
| William Haskins | James Stevenson |
| Henry Ludbrink | Samuel Stevenson |
| John B Thompson | William Sudbrink |
| Thomas Knight | Luther A. Jones |
| Wm Pollock | D. Curtis. Bosworth– |
| James Berger | Isaac Plaster |
| Merideth Capper | Wm Logan |
| Peter Wagner | John W Thompson |
| David Wagner | William Woods |
| James. A. Kerr | William Pearse |
| W. J. DeHaven | Reuben Bramlet |
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| ^650^Loderick L Maine | Wm [Vitgen?] |
| Elias Henderson | Abner Foster |
| Lucius. Gilmor. | Eugine Coffey ^McCarty^ |
| Edward Collins | John O.Connell |
| Thos Collins | Sam’l Doughty |
| Jas Knowles | William [?] |
| Robert Dougherty | James Henderson |
| Robert Dougherty Jr | Nathan Sutton |
| David Henderson | |
| Erastus D Lindsley | Moses Henderson |
| John. C. Lindsley | W. W. Miller |
| Wright Gill | Jas M. McLane |
| Richard Gill | Christ. Friedrich Krohe |
| George Burnaugh | [?] [?] |
| his DavidXDupres mark |
James Buck |
| his EnockXHoward mark |
Ebenezer H. Richardson |
| Jos Hobbs | Wm Minick |
| ^oct–^Lemuel Cross | Henry E. Dummer |
| S W Lucas | Lewis H Nolte |
| John Johnston | David [Nentney?] |
| Henry Treadway | William Chapman |
| E. Y. Huffman | George Morre |
| Wm Winhold | Wm Danner |
| W D Herman | John B Gagnon |
| J. D. Seaman | John Shrearer |
| Y S. Taylor | John [Quigg?] |
| ^700^Danl. Riggle | Alex Summers |
| Henry H. Hall. | [Joseph?] Shrearer |
| Chas Sprague | F Krohe |
| David Gray | Antonius Myer |
| R S Hill | Dempsey Skinner |
| O W Cowen | Thomas Elam |
| Jacob Swartz | Firmin Cazeau |
| John Davis | Jno. W. Whipp |
| E. B. Leonard– | Winlock Stewart |
| F S [Hampton?] | Luther Hamilton |
| Wm Cook | R H. Bead |
| John Thompson | J Phillips |
| James [Grays?] | Eaton Nance |
| Robert Padget | Stephen Elam |
| A. Rose | M. Rhinberger |
| John H Wynkop | Robert Nance |
| Andrew Baker | Louis Heather |
| John W Rose | C. C. Emerick |
| Thomas. J. Feltham | Frederick Potter |
| Samuel Neidy | Hulett Clark |
| Henry R Hull | Thomas Finney |
| Wm Padget | P. A. Gilliland |
| Wm Dougherty | Leroy. T. Taylor |
| E. W. Hammer | William Anderson |
| John Rhinberger | J V [Wilkinsbury?] |
| ^750^Amos Atwater | Linus Brooks |
| E J [Durham?] | William Conwell |
| J. Duchardt | James mclin |
| Johan Nöllsch | C B Thompson |
| Laurence Kelly | G J Thompson |
| G F Allen | Michael Kelty |
| John Bird | Henry Scheer. |
| John A Beuschel | [?] |
| [E P?] Kortright | [J?] Ritscher |
| Jos. [Stahlin?] | G Günther |
| Horace Cowen | [T Kelver?] |
| Henry [Jodkins?] | David Black |
| Georg Mannel | Samuel Johnston |
| Conrad [Pfiel?] | James Curry |
| O. F. Tibbits | Jesse Ambrose |
| T A Fisher | Chas Gilmor |
| William Skillman | Milton W. Lasley |
| John Lacy | Henry Ewing |
| Reddick Horn | Joseph Bennett |
| David Griffin | Joseph Ruff |
| Moss Samuel | Wm Hawks |
| Caleb Cotrell | Philip Forsythe |
| Hamilton Cotrell | John [Layman?] |
| Eldred Hardy | Dan’l Britton |
| Larkin B Smith | Daniel Scott |
| ^800–^James C Ross | John H [Pusey?] |
| John. McGown | W W [Auelenger?] |
| Charles MCrea | A. C. Lowell |
| John M Connell | Adam Wiener |
| Charles Hill | [?] G |
| Richard Powell | David [?] |
| John Taylor | [?] |
| James Wells. | Volentine Jump |
| L. H. Tredway | Edward Treadway |
| John Dunn | David Brown |
| George A. Tredway | Jacob D Wells |
| Benjamin Warren | James Welsh |
| W. T. Tredway | Lawrence Wesh |
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| Alexander Cooper | Zachariah Bridgewater |
| Isaac Baker | R. D. Hopkins |
| Saml M’Clure | Jacob Dunaway |
| Jonathan M Pate | Anthony Bloyd |
| Joseph Thompson | |
| Thos [Pattricasy?] | W. D. Leeper |
| William R. McLane | |
| David Thompson | George. W. Harris |
| James Bloyd | Thomas [Cowand?] |
| Martin F. Higgins– | John Bradford ^x^ |
| James M Graves | John A Mcconnell |
| Joshua Morris | Levi Legg ^x^ |
| ^850^Luke Dunn | W. Naylor |
| Charles Thomas | Holsey Smith |
| P. S. Outten | William Campbell |
| Joseph [Corby?] | |
| J. C. Richardson | William Clark |
| Jesse Petefish | D P Wilson |
| Joseph Kircher | Wm M Layton |
| Francis Muhler [Jr?] | John [Mclire?] |
| J M Webster | Nicholas [?] |
| Francis Arenz | Josiah Dunn |
| Nicholas Carter | Shadrick Dunn |
| Henry Phelps | Ernest Fletcher |
| Isaac Drinkwater | |
| John F Skinner | Wm F. McPherson. |
| John Clark | Hampton P. Dunn. |
| L. N. Osborn | Samuel. Masterson. |
| Wm Hyde | John James |
| [L?] Thompson | Wesley Johnson |
| Peter Light | I. T. Carter |
| Omar Bowyer | W. Grave |
| F Loevecamp | Ch. Landmann |
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| Fenton Vandevanter | |
| Richard. E. Case | Carleton Logan |
| David. A. Gypson | Reuben Hager |
| Henry Seger | Napolian. B. Whirly |
| John Barnet | George W. Lambert |
| Samuel Shaw | J. D. [Jump?] |
| William Keathly | Samuel Garrett |
| Alanson Leach | Larken Ramsey |
| Samuel Smithv | Jackson Purkins |
| William Laster | Joseph Purkins |
| Rowland D. Thomas | Charles Brady |
| Jonathan Gill | Greenburry Collins |
| William G Collins | M S Wilson |
| Zachariah Hash | E Watkins |
| Thomas Wadkins | Henry Dick |
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[ docketing
]
The Petition of certain Citizens of Cass county Illinois, praying to be allowed to
select other lands in lieu of certain valueless school lands &c &c.
Refer to Com.[Committee] on Public Lands–
A. Lincoln[ docketing
]
26
1On the back side of this handwritten petition, Abraham Lincoln authored and signed
one instance of docketing. It is unclear when and if Lincoln presented this petition
to the U.S. House of Representatives.
2The Land Ordinance of 1785 reserved the sixteenth section of each full thirty-six-section township to support
public schools within the township. Upon Illinois’ admission as a state in 1818,
Congress granted to every township in the state the proceeds of the sale of land
in each township’s Section 16 for the use of schools. This money became known as the
“common school fund.”
“An Act to Enable the People of the Illinois Territory to Form a Constitution and
State Government, and for the Admission of Such State into the Union on an Equal Footing
with the Original States,” 18 April 1818, Statutes at Large of the United States, 3 (1846):428-31; W. L. Pillsbury, “Early Education in Illinois,” Sixteenth Biennial Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State
of Illinois (Springfield, IL: H. W. Rokker, 1886), 106-7.
3This land was located in a bend of the Sangamon River near its confluence with the Illinois River, and was bisected by a large slough.
Illustrated Atlas Map of Cass County, Illinois (W. R. Brink, 1874), https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4103cm.gla00038/?sp=9&r=0.061,0.202,0.55,0.226,0.
4This land was located north of Ashland, on the border of Cass and Menard counties.
Illustrated Atlas Map of Cass County, Illinois, https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4103cm.gla00038/?sp=9&r=0.061,0.202,0.55,0.226,0.
5This section was located north of Indian Creek in southwestern Cass County.
Illustrated Atlas Map of Cass County, Illinois, https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4103cm.gla00038/?sp=9&r=0.061,0.202,0.55,0.226,0.
6This section was located southeast of Chandlerville, on the south side of Big Panther
Creek, and was bisected by Cox’s Creek.
Illustrated Atlas Map of Cass County, Illinois, https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4103cm.gla00038/?sp=9&r=0.061,0.202,0.55,0.226,0.
7This land was located south of the Sangamon River in north-central Cass County.
Illustrated Atlas Map of Cass County, Illinois, https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4103cm.gla00038/?sp=9&r=0.061,0.202,0.55,0.226,0.
8This land was located east of Beardstown.
Illustrated Atlas Map of Cass County, Illinois, https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4103cm.gla00038/?sp=9&r=0.061,0.202,0.55,0.226,0.
9This fractional township was located in the extreme southwestern corner of the county,
bounded by the Illinois River.
Illustrated Atlas Map of Cass County, Illinois, https://www.loc.gov/resource/g4103cm.gla00038/?sp=9&r=0.061,0.202,0.55,0.226,0.
Handwritten Document Signed, 4 page(s), RG 233, Entry 367: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Referred to Committees, 1847-1849, NAB.