Alphabetical Listing of Monroe County (IN) Land Entries--Vincennes District
Alphabetical Listing of
Monroe County (IN) Land Entries--Vincennes District
Randi Richardson, compiler, 2011
The names in this document were extracted from Indiana Land Entries: Vincennes District 1807-1877, Vol. 2, part 1, compiled by Margaret Waters and originally published in 1948. As noted by Waters, this particular volume contains only about half of the entries for Monroe County and specifically excludes donation, canal, swamp, saline and school lands sold at the Vincennes government land office. It was Waters intention to copy all of the records of the various land offices up to the closing of the offices and the transfer of the records of the of the remaining, unsold lands in each district to the then-called General Land Office in Washington, D. C. This task, however, was never completed.
The Vincennes Land Office opened in 1807 and was discontinued in 1840. It reopened in 1853 and closed for the last time in 1861. Waters indicates that some of the sales noted in the 1870s are probably dates in the 1850s that were poorly written.
Some sales of Monroe County land were transacted in the Crawfordville Land Office. Those records are included in a separate volume compiled by a different author in a different format. Information pertaining to sales from the Crawfordsville Land Office is not included in this listing.
Waters copied the records by location exactly as they appeared. By looking at others who purchased land in nearby locations, one can get an idea of the neighbors. Therefore, this index should be used in conjunction with Waters book and is not intended to be a substitute for the book.
Old handwriting is difficult to read. Waters did her best to record names exactly as they were written, and this compiler occasionally made minor revisions within the listing to reflect common spellings in order that an individual might more readily be located. With that being said, researchers utilizing this index and Waters books should be diligent in looking for spelling variants of given names and common mistakes in misinterpreting old handwriting such as James/Joseph or Lemuel/Samuel.
After the government sold the land to an individual, subsequent sales of that land or portions of that land are recorded at the county level.
