Cape Girardeau County MO Archives Deed.....BEVINS, JAMES - Lands, Public June 3, 1808 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mo/mofiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Kitty Biven Hoffman lollygag@bellsouth.net July 29, 2008, 11:02 am Written: June 3, 1808 Source: A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 - 1875; American State Papers, House of Representatives, 12th Congress, 2nd Session; Public Lands: Volume 2, p. 409, [1828]. Contributed by: Kitty Biven Hoffman, 7/28/2008 Land claims in the Louisiana-Missouri Territory JAMES BEVINS: A claim for two hundred arpents of land, situate on White waters, district of Cape Girardeau. Produces to the Board, as a special permission to settle, list B, on which claimant is No. 31. TESTIMONY TAKEN: June 3, 1808, by Frederick BATES, commissioner, authorized from the Board to take testimony at Cape Girardeau, & c. ISAAC MILLER, duly sworn, says that this land was first settled in the year 1805, a cabin then built, and four or five acres enclosed and cultivated; constantly inhabited to this time; about fourteen acres now in cultivation; no family. OPINION OF THE BOARD: February 21, 1810: Full Board. It is the opinion of the Board that this claim ought not to be granted. Source: A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 - 1875, American State Papers, Senate, 24th Congress, 1st Session Public Lands: Volume 8, p. 150, [No. 1340]. Claim 2, No. 48, JAMES BEVINS, claiming 200 arpens. Names of Original Claimant: JAMES BEVINS Nature and date of claim: Settlement right. By whom granted: (blank) By whom surveyed, date, and situation: (blank) Evidence in Reference to Minutes and Records Board Met May 8, 1809 Present: John B. C. Lucas, Clement B. Penrose, and Frederick Bates, commissioners. JAMES BEVINS, claiming 200 arpens of land, situate on Whitewater, district of Cape Girardeau, produces to the board, as a special permission to settle, list B, on which claimant is No. 31. The following testimony in the foregoing case, taken, as aforesaid, at Cape Girardeau, June 3, 1808, by Frederick Bates, commissioner: ISAAC MILLER, duly sworn, says that this land was first settled in 1805, a cabin then built, and four or five acres enclosed and cultivated; constantly inhabited to this time; about 14 acres now in cultivation; no family. Laid over for decision (SEE No. 4, page 41) February 21, 1810. Board Met. Present: John B. C. Lucas, Clement B. Penrose, and Frederick Bates, commissioners: JAMES BEVINS, claiming 200 arpens of land (See book No. 4, page 41). It is the opinion of the board that this claim ought not to be granted. (See book No., 4, p. 283). January 10, 1834. F. R. Conway, Esq.., appeared, pursuant to adjournment. JAMES BEVINS, by his legal representatives, claiming 640 acres of land situate on White- water, county of Cape Girardeau. (See minutes, Book No., 4, pages 41 and 283). State of Missouri, County of Cape Girardeau: ISAAC MILLER states that he moved to and settled in the district of Cape Girardeau, Upper Louisiana, now State of Missouri, in the year 1803. That he was well acquainted one JAMES BEVINS, who also moved to and settled in said district, in the year 1803.This affiant and the said BEVINS, in the same year they arrived in the country, called on Lorimier, the Spanish Commandant at Cape Girardeau, for land, and got permission to settle. This affiant knows that the said JAMES worked and made improvement on main Whitewater, in said district, in the winter of 1803, and raised corn thereon the next year, where he lived. The said James died in the winter of 1804; the said place in now owned by the heirs of one JOHN MILLER. ISAAC MILLER Sworn to and subscribed, October, 19, 1833 L. F. Linn, Commissioner. (See book No. 6, p. 455) June 16, 1835. The board met, pursuant to adjournment. Present: F. R. Conway, J. H. Relfe, commissioners. JAMES BEVINS, claiming 200 arpens of land (See book No. 6, p. 455, where this claim is entered for 640 acres.). The board are of opinion that this claim ought not to be granted. (See book 7, p. 187) James H. Relfe F. R. Conway I have examined the transcript of the above claim, and concur in the decision. F. H. Martin Additional Comments: Source: A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774 - 1875; American State Papers, House of Representatives, 12th Congress, 2nd Session; Public Lands: Volume 2, p. 409, [1828]. Contributed by: Kitty Biven Hoffman, 7/28/2008 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mo/capegirardeau/deeds/lands66gdd.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mofiles/ File size: 5.1 Kb