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Documents range from 4" x 7" to 6" x 8", with one 8.5" x 13". All are printed using several different typesettings and completed in ink manuscript. Light age toning, some old folds, an occasional split or chipping at a margin [no text loss]. Very Good. The documents include: a. Quincy, Illinois, Deed Nos. 9183, 9184, and 9185, all dated July 23, 1836, for purchase of 327 acres in Township No. Seven North, totaling $308.81 1/4, all signed by Thos. Carlin as Receiver. b. Galena, Illinois, Deed Nos. 6029, 6030, 6031, and 6035, all dated December 1836, for 491 acres located in Township No. 15, totaling $614.375, all signed by J.W. Stephenson as Receiver. c. Springfield, Illinois, Deed No. 18375, dated May 12, 1837, for 80 acres in Township No. 17, in the amount of $100, signed by John Taylor. d. Jo Daviess County, Illinois, folio size indenture, dated October 1, 1838, for purchase of a certain parcel of land in Wesley City, bought from Charles S. and Mary P. Dorsey, in the amount of $160, signed by Leonard Goss, J.P. e. Lewistown, Illinois, two tax receipts, dated June 7, 1845, for taxes paid on 240 acres of land in Township No. 7, totaling $19.20, both signed by Henry B. Evans as Clerk. f. Peoria, Illinois, tax receipt, dated June 12, 1856, for taxes paid on 80 acres, totaling $5.84, signed "William Mitchell, Clerk, by R. Hamlin, Dept. Clk." Frank Taylor [1811-1873], born in England, immigrated to Washington and became the leading bookseller from the 1830s through 1872, as owner and operator of the Waverly Book-Store on Pennsylvania Avenue. His personal friends included Henry Clay, Millard Fillmore, Thomas Corwin, and many other notables. He married Virginia Neville Taylor, great granddaughter of Brig. Gen. John Neville and Brig. Gen. Daniel Morgan, and granddaughter of Col. Presley Neville and Lieut. Col. Charles Simms, all of the Continental Army. The Taylors were well known for their loyalty to the Union during the Civil War. Mr. T. was touted as the first man in the United States to take the War loan. By time of the 1870 Census he was retired and wealthy [THE UNITED STATES ARMY AND NAVY JOURNAL AND GAZETTE OF THE REGULAR AND VOLUNTEER FORCES, VOLUME 30, 1893. Page 261.] Thomas Carlin [1789-1852], the Receiver at Quincy, became the seventh governor of Illinois, serving from 1838-1842. He was born in Kentucky and moved to Illinois as a young man. He served in the War of 1812 and the Black Hawk War, was a member of the Illinois House of Representatives for two terms, and served in the Illinois State Senate for two terms. Col. James W. Stephenson [1805-1838], Receiver at Galena, was born in Virginia and moved to Jo Daviess County as a young man. He was Clerk of both the Commissioner's Court , Clerk of the Circuit Court, County Recorder, member of the Illinois State Senate, and Registrar of Lands at Galena. He was Captain of the 1st Mounted Rangers from Galena during the Black Hawk War, and has been celebrated as a local hero for leading a bloody attack on a band of Indians in 1832 who were wanted for horse stealing; he was later brevetted Colonel. [Lebron, Jeanne: "Colonel James W. Stephenson: Galena Pioneer." JOURNAL OF THE ILLINOIS STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY [1908-1984], VOL. 35, NO. 4, [Dec. 1942], pp. 347-367.] Leonard Goss [1795-1854], born in Mississippi, came to Illinois, starting out in Bond County where he served as treasurer in 1824, and as quartermaster and later colonel of the 12th Regimen of the Bond County Militia. He moved to Carroll County where he served as County Clerk, Clerk of the County Commissioner's Court, and Justice of the Peace. He began as Justice of the Peace in Jo Daviess and retained the position when a section of Jo Daviess was turned into Carroll County. [Bateman, et al.: HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ILLINOIS, VOL. 2. Illinois: 1913. Pages 629-35; HISTORY OF CARROLL COUNTY, ILLINOIS. Chicago: 1878. Pages 229-39, ] Henry B. Evans [1814-1878] was a member of the Fulton County Bar and owned a significant. Seller Inventory # 31403
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