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	Donation Land Claim Act of 1850 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Donation Land Claim Act of 1850, sometimes known just as the Donation Land Act, was an historic law passed by the Congress of the United States intended to promote homestead settlement in the Oregon Territory in the Pacific Northwest (comprising the present-day states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho).
		One such claim legitimized by the act was that of George Abernethy, who had been elected to the governship in the days of the provisional government.
		Claims under the law were granted at the federal land office in Oregon City.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Donation_Land_Claim_Act_of_1850 (551 words)

	Samuel Thurston (delegate) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was the first delegate from the Oregon Territory to the United States Congress and was instrumental in the passage of the Donation Land Claim Act.
		The act legimitized existing land claims in the Oregon Territory and granted 640 acres (2.6 km²) to each married couple who would settle and cultivate the land for four years.
		The act is considered a forerunner of the 1862 Homestead Act.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Samuel_Thurston_(delegate) (426 words)

	HOMESTEAD ACT FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A common scheme was for an individual acting as a front for a large cattle operation to file for a homestead surrounding a water source under the pretense that the land was being used as a farm.
		Land offices would rely on affidavits from witnesses that the claimant had lived on the land for the required period of time and made the required improvements.
		The act was later copied with some modifications by Canada in the form of the Dominion_Lands_Act, and similar acts, usually termed the Selection_Acts were passed in the various Australian colonies in the 1860s, beginning in 1861 in New_South_Wales.
	www.brolgas.com /Homestead_Act (670 words)

	Donation Land Claim Act of 1850 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Donation Land Claim Act of 1850, sometimes known just as the Donation Land Act, was a historic law passed by the United State Congress intended to promote homestead settlement in the Oregon Territory in the Pacific Northwest (comprising the present-day states of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho).
		One such claim legitimized by the act was that of George Abernathy, who had been elected to the governship in the days of the provisional government.
		After the 1854 cutoff date, land in Oregon was no longer free but was sold at a price of $1.25 an acre ($308.88/km²) with a limit of 320 acres (1.3 km²) in any one claim.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/donation_land_claim_act_of_1850 (586 words)

	Glossary
		Donation Land Claim: In Oregon, land granted to persons who fulfilled the requirements of the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850.
		This act specified that citizens of the United States, or those who filed a declaration of intention prior to December 1, 1850, and had resided upon or cultivated the land for four consecutive years, were granted a specified amount of acreage in the Oregon Territory.
		The act provided 160 acres of public domain land to settlers who built a home on the land, resided there for five years, and cultivated the land.
	arcweb.sos.state.or.us /county/cpglossary.html (2201 words)

	Land Claims in Oregon
		The Provisional Government's land ordinances remained in force until the passage of the Donation Land Act of 1850.
		Of all the Donation Land Claims in Oregon, the best known is probably that of George Abernethy, the first man to be elected to the governorship in the years of the Provisional Government.
		It was on his claim, in a meadow that became known as Abernethy Green, that the exhausted Oregon Trail emigrants camped long enough to find a promising piece of land that they could claim as their own.
	www.endoftheoregontrail.org /road2oregon/sa28claims.html (946 words)

	Clackamas County Surveyors: Land Corners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Private land claims had been, and were being recognized and provided for by law in many other areas, so the presumption that Congress would do the same again was based on a solid foundation politically.
		Hence the provisional land laws, established in 1785, were declared null and void — with one exception: title to 640 acres occupied as missionary stations among the Indians were confirmed to the societies in which the stations belonged.
		The Donation Land Claim stipulated that where the land was deemed "unfit for cultivation" only township lines were to be surveyed; otherwise only such lines were to be surveyed as were "necessary".
	www.co.clackamas.or.us /surveyor/landcorners.htm (1303 words)

	Oregon Donation Land Claims - Bouman
		According to the 1850 Act, grants located after December 1, 1850 had to conform as nearly as practicable to the legal subdivision of the rectangular surveys if the claim was located on public land that had already been surveyed into townships and sections.
		The Act of 1850 required claims to be laid down temporarily on the township plats by the Surveyor General.
		The Surveyor General was required to survey and mark the boundaries of the claims at the request and expense of the claimants and to note, temporarily, the boundaries of the claims on the township plats.
	www.plso.org /readingroom/OregonDLC-Bouman.htm (3615 words)

	Lane County News: Now Online: Land Surveys and Other Surveyor Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Donation Land Claim records.The Donation Land Claim act of 1850 allowed 320 acres of land for a single man and 640 acres of land for a married couple.
		Donations land claims can be looked up by the name of the claim or by area by township, range and section.
		To view a Donation Land Claim plat enter township and range (1706) and on the block with the tile of “name” type in the word “plat” then “click” or select “view” and a 1858 plat will be displayed.
	www.co.lane.or.us /News/News_2003/Release_8549.htm (800 words)

	Josephine County Records Inventory: Federal Land Grant Records
		Donation land claims are the most common type of federal land grant in Oregon that is documented in this inventory project.
		Donation land claims resulted from an act of the 1850 Congress under which citizens of the United States, or those who filed a declaration of intention prior to December 1, 1850 and had resided upon or cultivated the land for four consecutive years, were granted a specified amount of acreage in the Oregon Territory.
		Donation land claims were unique in that acreage granted to married couples was divided evenly.
	www.sos.state.or.us /archives/county/cpjosephine/fed.html (371 words)

	Clackamas County Land Claims
		Single women could not claim land and only males could apply, but the 320 acres was in the woman's name, her property in case of divorce, widowhood, or abandonment (and also an inducement to marriage).
		According to Oregon Donation Land Claim law, any provisional claim filed before December 1, 1851(by whatever nationality) was preserved with the sipulation that the claimant had to be in Oregon already and occupy the land for four years.
		The Donation Land Act was extended to anyone arriving before December 1, 1853 and the lesser amount of acreage (half-sections) applied to newcomers of 1854 and later.
	www.usgennet.org /alhnorus/ahorclak/land.html (2585 words)

	Surveying Land Claims
		Claims were smaller and the close cooperation of neighbors was a necessity, but there were no conflicts and no wasted land.
		Land claims prior to the first surveys were laid out by metes and bounds -- that is, literally walking off boundaries and counting paces.
		A good example of this is the Trullinger claim near Molalla: parts of the claim are in sections 20, 21, 22, 27, and 28 of Township 4 South, Range 2 East.
	www.endoftheoregontrail.org /road2oregon/sa29surveys.html (803 words)

	VeMain3
		The highest concentration of the population was in the Mill Creek and French Prairie area of Marion County.(2) By 1849 the Territorial Census estimated the population of Polk Co. at 1,174, a substantial growth in an eight year period.
		His land was bordered on the south by Ash Creek and on the east by the Donation Land Claim of C.P. Cook.
		The farmers from a wide extent of country come to do their trading." The article further states of the small valley community that "Independence, on account of the opportunities for trade, it has long enjoyed, is one of the most opulent of the small towns to be found in the Willamette Valley.
	www.open.org /~herimusm/exhibit3/vexmain3.htm (2611 words)

	History of Ashland
		Families from all parts of the country, encouraged by the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850, came to make their free claim up to 320 acres, build homes and till the land.
		Land for a Catholic Church was purchased, and a First Baptist Church was organized.
		Immediately there was a wail of protest from some of the businessmen who felt the land was too valuable and should be used for business purposes, and from some of the "dear old pioneer women" who felt the mill was a landmark and should be preserved.
	www.move2ashland.com /ashland/history_of_ashland.htm (7406 words)

	Wasco_County,_Oregon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		6,167 km² (2,381 mi²) of it is land and 37 km² (14 mi²) of it is water.
		The construction of a pioneer road over the Cascades in 1845, and the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850 encouraged families to settle in the area.
		When the Rajneeshes subsequently recruited homeless people from across the United States to settle at Rajneeshpuram, it was widely seen as an attempt to use the ballot box to seize control of the county.
	www.apawn.com /search.php?title=Wasco_County,_Oregon (961 words)

	Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve: Administrative History (Chapter 3) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Arrivals after the 1850 deadline could still acquire 160 acres until 1854, and they needed only to live on the land and cultivate it for four years to own it outright.
		The law also legalized the claims of people already residing in Oregon country when it became a territory, a reward for those who had helped establish American claims to the land.
		The Donation Land Claim Act expired on December 1, 1855, bunt the Preemption Act remained in effect.
	www.nps.gov /ebla/adhi/adhi3d.htm (347 words)

	hist0927c (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		September 27, 1850: The "Donation Act" was passed by Congress.
		Their new lands would be bounded by Fort Smith along the Arkansas River to the source of the Canadian Fork, to the Red River, to Arkansas Territory.
		Hence the provisional land laws, established in 1785, were declared null and void - with one exception: title to 640 acres occupied as missionary stations among the Indians were confirmed to the societies in which the stations belonged.
	nativenewsonline.org /history/hist0927c.html (1180 words)

	Tour of Local Jackson Sites at Jackson Reunion 2000
		A note on Donation Land Claims (DLC): The provisional government set up its unilateral land system under the Organic Law and the United States affirmed it two years after the territory was established.
		Her land was held in her name which gave woman's rights an early boost and was the reason Ulysses Jackson had to buy my farm twice (he failed to get the wife's agreement the first time).
		The Donation Land Law awarded 320 acres to a single man and 640 to a married couple with the wife enjoying an interest in half of the land.
	www.eg.bucknell.edu /~hyde/jackson/tour2000.html (2346 words)

	ALRA: Clark County Indians Were Not Cowlitz (3)
		An aboriginal claim must be evaluated in the context of other residents and claimants to the land involved, in this case, including white settlers.
		Fertile land along the Lewis River was highly desired and quickly settled by whites.
		After the 1850 Donation Land Claim Act, the policy and practice was to give title to white settlers and to exclude Indians.
	www.landrights.org /cowlitz3.htm (1081 words)

	L³ - The Lewis And Clark Rediscovery Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Donation Land Act of 1850 provides that a white, married, individual who settled on land before September 1850 can claim 640 acres of public land, while a single man can claim 320 acres.
		So but then when the homestead act came into effect, the people that came into the country here, then,...they signed up for this homestead act, and they got a hundred and sixty acres in this area that was one homestead.
		And so they were, this land was not open for them, it was all taken up and given to the people that migrated in.
	www.l3-lewisandclark.com /ShowOneObject.asp?SiteID=68&ObjectID=648 (915 words)

	Oregon History ProjectOregon Biographies Samuel Thurston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		There was some doubt about the fortunes of the grantees until Congress passed the Oregon Donation Land Claim Act of 1850, allowing an adult white male to claim a half section for himself and, if he were married, another half section in his wife’s name.
		Acting on his distaste for the Hudson’s Bay Company, Thurston managed to exclude John McLoughlin’s claim at Oregon City from the Oregon Donation Land Claim Act.
		Before it was superceded in 1862, the federal government conveyed 2,500,000 acres to settlers under the Oregon Donation Act.
	www.ohs.org /education/oregonhistory/Oregon-Biographies-Samuel-Thurston.cfm (358 words)

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		Land Records in the Oregon State Archives Following is a list of land records in the Oregon State Archives.
		Types of records included are assessment and tax rolls in the county records, maps and program records regarding land use, land management and environmental issues in the state records, land claims, land use surveys, and land laws and legislation in the Provisional and Territorial records, and Donation Land Claim files in the federal records.
		The Oregon donation files for each appropriate land office (Oregon City, Roseburg, and The Dalles) are filed in two numerical series.
	ftp.cac.psu.edu /genealogy/roots-l/genealog/genealog.oregon3 (413 words)

	Northwest & Rockies, Historic Farmland Protected at Ebey's Landing: The Trust for Public Land
		Taking advantage of the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850, he staked out prime land on the slopes of Whidbey Island overlooking Puget Sound in 1852.
		The Engle family was one of the original pioneer families to settle at Ebey's Landing and has farmed these prairie lands for generations.
		TPL initially approached the family in 1995 about purchasing a conservation easement over several of the properties, knowing that this family farm was unfortunately not immune to the challenges of the declining dairy industry.
	www.tpl.org /tier3_cd.cfm?content_item_id=2681&folder_id=210 (671 words)

	Linn County, Oregon - Biocrawler definition:Linn County, Oregon - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The county was named for Lewis F. Linn, a senator from the state of Missouri, who advocated the American occupation of Oregon and was instrumental in what became the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850.
		5,937 km² (2,292 mi²) of it is land and 47 km² (18 mi²) of it is water.
		The county seat was originally located in Calapooia (later known as Brownsville), but in 1851 the Territorial Legislature passed an act establishing Albany as the county seat.
	www.biocrawler.com /biowiki/Linn_County,_Oregon (614 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He had, in fact, purchased his land for 100 bushels of wheat from George EBBERT in about 1841, long before the donation land claim act of 1850 was established.
		When he actually did apply for the donation land claim in 1852, LONGTAIN stated under oath that he had occupied the tract in question continuously since 30 November 1834, his 40th birthday.
		That homestead land is now Champoeg State Park, and was given to the state of Oregon by the family.
	www.peak.org /~mransom/longtain.html (425 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The property donated to the wife was hers in her own right, provided she complied with the rest of the requirements of the Act.
		Based on this large survey, Donation Land Claims would be further surveyed to facilitate the concise location relative to the Township and the overall survey scheme.
		Many of the surveys of Donation Land Claims were performed by County Surveyors under contract with the Surveyor General of Oregon.
	www.co.yamhill.or.us /surveyor/history.htm (684 words)

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