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Your requested listing of all records of type Land Records returned records in 2 table(s)...
Name of Table: Bureau of Land Management / General Land Office Records (View Records!)
Table Description: This very large table contains a vast number of BLM land grants assigned to various Williams folks over the years. This is an index of the records available from the BLM website (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/). For many of the records, you can pull up that actual image from the BLM website.
(Note! In the last year or so, the BLM site has undergone a few changes and many of these records are currently unavailable.)
Name of Table: Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales Database (1814-1902) (View Records!)
Table Description: 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.
This list contains all of the Williams' who were purchasers in the 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.
To get more information about these land records, visit :http://www.sos.state.il.us/departments/archives/data_lan.html. There, you can pull up the information for a specific record and usually find a bit more information.
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