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1862 - Reports Of Land Cases Determined In The United States District Court, Northern District Of California, Volume 1, Ogden Hoffman, District Judge
Miscellaneous Documents and Reports
This report covers all of the opinions delivered by Judge Hoffman during the June 1853 to June 1858 terms of the Northern District Court of California relating to land cases. It includes a list of the Governors of California from its first settlement together with an early history of Upper California. The Appendix contains a table of all land claims presented to the Board of Land Commissioners including the number of each Commission docket number (GLO), District Court case number, corresponding number from the Jimeño Index, the name of the claimant, the original grantee, the date of the grant, the …
Outline History Of California Board Of Land Commissioners, 1851-1856, Philip P. Brower, February 1943
National Archives Documents
A detailed outline pertaining to the history of the California Board of Land Commissioners from 1851-1850.
Cartographic Records Pertaining To California Private Land Claims, U.S. National Archives, Na-1, Grim 2-19-82.
National Archives Documents
A listing of Records of California Private Land Claims that includes:
Complete expedientes (case file). Case file contains variety of textual documents, all in Spanish. Most include a diseños or rough sketch map of the particular grant. It should be the original drawing.
Incomplete expedientes (includes copy of diseños).
Case expedientes (AKA Board expedientes; includes copy of diseños).
Board of Land Commissioners, three volumes of diseños (copies from originals).
Maps separated from General Land Office docket files.
Land Offices plats of survey, 25 volumes of survey plats.
Reference works for researching California Private Land Claims.
Field Notes Of California Private Claims; Also Plat And Docket Indexes; Combined.
Field Notes Of California Private Claims; Also Plat And Docket Indexes; Combined.
National Archives Documents
Field Notes of California Private Claims – Partly from Chart Index E’s, California field-note drawer) showing such field notes as are in volumes, whether governing or not.
Index – California Private Land Claims - Annotated typescript list prepared in Survey Division of General Land Office (Bureau of Land Management). Covers plats, survey field notes and similar records in Plat Room and other sections of the GLO prior to 1952. Arranged alphabetically by name of claimant. Photostat made in National Archives from original typescript copy of the BLM, November 1952.
Maps Separated from Docket Files, List C – Oversized maps and …