Source: Goodspeed's Franklin County History, 1888, Goodspeed Publishing Co.pgs 221-222
Transcribed by Candi Horton ©2006
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Early Spanish Surveys.

In Franklin County there is a large number of surveys or grants, made by the Spanish authorities before the Louisiana territory was transferred
to the United States and afterward confirmed by the Congress of the United States.

The numbers of the surveys, the names of the confirmers, the size of the grants and the location of each are here introduced:

Survey No.	Names of the confirmers	Size			Location
		Arpents	or	Acres	Township	Range
98	Uri Music and Absalom Link under Ephraim Richardson	400		340.28	44	2E
151	Aaron Colvin	400			44	1E
161	Children of John Ridenhour and Christiana, his widow, under John Ridenhour	500			44	2E
311	James Stephens otherwise James Stephenson	800			44	1E
313	Thomas Caulk under David King Price	400			44	1E
404	William Huges	500			44	1E and 1W
733	Ambrose Boles			640	44	1E
878	James Pritchett			640	44	1E
900	Leonard Farrow			640	43 and 44	1E
974	Thomas Gibson			640	44	2W
975	Charles Phillips			640	44 and 45	2W
976	William Fullarton			640	44	1E
977	Smith Collum	600			43 and 44	2W
1910	John Chandler	600			44	2W
1912	Ezekiel Rogers	600			44	1W
1914	Robert Young under John Day	240			44	1E
1919	John S. Farrar	350			43	1E and 1W
1921	Robert Ramsey	350			44	2E
1922	Kincaid Caldwell	710			44	1W
1925	William Massey	490			44	1W
1931	Alexander McCourtney	600			44	1E
1942	John Stephenson	316			44	1E
1964	James Cowan			640	43 and 44	1E and 1W
1984	John Phillips			640	44	2W
2044	Hugh Stephenson	400			44	1W
2577	Louis Dubois			640	44	1E
2687	John F. Chatingny			640	44	1E
2686	James Smith			640	44	1E
3025	Bazile Desnoyers			640	44	1E
3279	Gabreil Cerci	400			40 and 41	1W
1768	Peter Chouteau under Etienne St. Pierre			6,002.50	45	3W
2981	Etienne St.Pierre			14,751.30	45	3W
3029	Sylvester Labaddie			13,821.98	44 and 45	2W and 3W
3030	Baptiste Duchouquet			6,987.33	44 and 45	3W
3129	James Mackay	10,340			42	2W
3031	James Mackay	5,280			44	1W and 2W
3132	John Long	5,000			44	1W
3133	John Long	5,000			43 and 44	1W
909	William Bell A triangular portion of survey 909 confirmed that William Bell occupied the extreme northeast corner of the county. It is believed that the last of these grants were made in May 1804, as some whose destination was that this portion was then the St. Louis District, who came here in the fall of that year were too late to secure grants or headsrights as the 640 acre surveys were called.

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