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Includes land warrants in Iowa territory, the last will and testament of John Philip Baker, a tax receipt for lands in Muskingum County, Ohio, and a broadside. (The broadside is in Map Case 12, drawer 18)

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Autograph manuscript

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Land titles

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Three bounty land warrants, made out to 1) Sarah Cunningham, widow of George Cunningham deceased, a private in Captain Schwarzaeness Company of Maryland Militia, War of 1812; 2) James Bayfield, a private in Captain Stevers Company of Maryland Militia, War of 1812; and 3) John Cole, a private in Captain Leightens Company of Maine militia, North Eastern frontier disturbance. All three were issued January 1, 1856; all three were in township 85 of Tama County; and all three were signed over to Peter Brush, who entered them into the record on November 17, 1890. (In Map Case 12, drawer 18)

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Certifying a land claim in the Wisconsin territory made by Robert M. Claren; transferring the claim from Claren to David R. Warfield, dated November 5, 1838.

Scope and Contents Letters written by Clapp, a native of Binghamton, New York, to his parents which describe his experiences in western Iowa, his trip across the nearly unmarked prairie from Fort Dodge to Council Bluffs and then on to Sioux City, his experiences with land speculation and laying out the town of Iron Bluff, and his business partnership with Marshall F. Moore, later governor of the territory of Washington. He and Moore set up a land company and started a bank.Clapp was born April 17, 1830 in Norwich, New York to John Clapp and Lydia Strong Clapp. He was educateed at the Academy at Binghamton and attended Hamilton College and Union College. After his adventures in Iowa he returned to Binghamton where he became one of the leading businessmen of the town, dealing in real estate and with interest in several manufacturing concerns. He was also Director of the First National Bank. He married Harriet Evans October 15, 1862. The couple had two children that survived. Clapp died May 20, 1900....

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3 promissory notes. Keokuk, Iowa

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Tells of the sudden death of a child and of a trip into Indian territory in northeastern Kansas where they reported seeing only two white men.

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In map case 12, drawer 18

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Signed by Ralph Lowe, Governor and Elijah Sells, Secretary of State.

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Signed by Samuel Kirkwood.

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Land prospector and mayor of Keokuk 1859, Leighton was instrumental in promoting the Des Moines Valley Railroad.

Scope and Contents Louis Dace Letellier was born in the Parish of Beaumont, Bellechasse County near Quebec, in 1827. In 1845 after some schooling, an apprenticeship to a cabinet maker which ended when a fire destroyed the shop, and a few months at a shipyard, he set out for the American territories. After working two years in Chicago, he went to St. Louis. From St. Louis in 1850, he hired on to the Pierre Chouteau Fur Company, to work a year at Fort Pierre as a carpenter where he made such things as houses, Mackinaw boats, skiffs, and flatboats. He stayed at Fort Pierre for two years, then moved to the same fur traders' Fort Union Trading Post. From here he went to Fort Benton in a barge loaded with merchandise and pulled up the river by twenty-five men in harnesses, to trade with the Black Feet. He goes on to stay at every fort that the company owned, having many adventures with the Indians and the white traders. In one, two men were drowned crossing the Missouri and it was mistakenly reported to...