Florida Land Office Records, Reel #1

Containers:

Microfilm 1

Scope and content:

Label: #6 Township Plats, State Survey Plat Books, Private Survey Plats, Forbes Purchase.

Target: Township Maps State Plat Book

This reel begins with a series of plat maps for areas ranging from T 38 S, R 34 E through T 43 S, R 29 E and are primarily surveys of land and shoreline of Lake Okeechobee and the Everglades areas, done under auspices of Internal Improvement Trust Fund, 1913-1918 with some plats marked Surveyor General's Office, Tallahassee, 1875.

Target: Forbes Purchase Private Plats

This section begins with a series of typescript letters of John Lord Nisbet, Tallahassee, June 4, 1931, regarding the sale to the State of Florida of a group of plats of Forbes Survey that has passed through the Forbes family to the Apalachicola Land Company and thence to the J. P. Williams Land Company. With history of the surveys, typescript field notes, etc.

Mss.: Plat maps, T 1 S, R 1 W through T 10 S, R 9 W; with some of T 1 N.

Includes larger section maps with place names and acreage marked. Includes Map of Carrabelle, Florida, T 7 S, R 4 W, 1928

Target: Private Land Claims in Florida

Mss.: Index to bolumes 1-4, by personal name; shows confirmee, grantee, acres, location, surveyor, and date surveyed.

Mss. Target: *Record and Condensed History of Private Land Claims in the State of Florida Showing the Connective Lines of Each Claim with the Public Surveys.

Compiled in the years 1855-1856-1857 at the surveyor General's Office, St. Augustine

Mss.: Index by initial letter of name (Volume 1?)

581 pp., mostly T 1 N, R 28, 29 E. (Jacksonville, Fla. region)

Mss. Target: (Same as above *), Volume II

Mss.: Index, Plat maps, pp. 1-93.

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