French and British Land Grants in the Post Vincennes (Indiana) District 1750-1784

The American State Papers are official government documents that were printed long before the creation of the U.S. Government Printing Office. In 1821 Congress authorized the reprinting of 750 copies of those State Papers still extant. Although these documents cover a myriad of issues (e.g. foreign affairs commerce etc.) for genealogists the most important categories are Public Land and Claims and it is upon these categories that this volume is based. Clifford Neal Smith an authority on federal land policy extracted records of genealogical importance from the State Papers related to French and British land grants issued near Port Vincennes (Indiana) District between 1750 and 1784 and he published them in four booklets. These otherwise extremely difficult to access records range from mere lists of inhabitants to lists of claimants to land surveys and to rejected claims.