The Great American Land Bubble
Index
Aaron Burr, Wandell and Minnigerode, 80, note; 202
Account of the Lands, etc., An, R. L. Pell, 144
Adams, Herbert B., notes, 7, 8, 14
Adams, Samuel, 27
Addresses, Speeches and Letters upon Various Subjects, Hugh McCulloch, notes, 247, 248
Address to the Reader . . . Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company, 225, note
Adirondack Mountains, 92, 96
Adirondack State Park, N. Y., 26
Advertising, in Florida boom, 339, 350 land speculation, 332, 335
Agriculture, displaced by mechanics, 317
Alabama, 126
Alaska, gold rush to, 324
Albany, N. Y., 27, 243
Albany Gazette, 64
Albemarle, Va., 4
Albion, Ohio, 188
Alexandria, La., 208
Alexandria, Va., 9
Alexandria Bay, N. Y., 90
Alleghany Mountains, 3, 5, 22, 33, 172
Alleghany River, 38
Allen, Ann Penn (Greenleaf), 38, 167
Allen, Ethan, 24
Allentown, Pa., 167
Alvord, C. W., 4, note
American and Sharon Land Company, 307
American Colonization Society, 211
American Gazetteer, Jedidiah Morse, 134
American Geography, The, Jedidiah Morse, 19
American Land Company, 242–245, 253, 278
American Notes, Charles Dickens, 164, note
American Railroad Builder, An, Henry G. Pearson, 285, note
American Real Estate Company, 327
American State Papers, notes, 18, 181, 196, 209, 210, 240, 278
Amsterdam, Holland, 60
Annals of San Francisco, The, Soulé et al., notes, 257, 258, 259
Annapolis, Md., 148
Annual Report of the American Historical Association, notes, 52, 70
Annual Report of the Trustees of the American Land Company, 244
Antwerp Company, 88
Apalachicola, Fla., 332
Apalachicola Gazette, 333
Apalachicola Land Company, 332
Arkansas, 198, 244
Arkansas Gazette, 223
Armendaris Grant, 270
Armour, J. Ogden, 266
Arnold, Isaac N., 254, note
Ashe, Thomas, 110, 118
Aspinwall, William H., 281
Astor, John Jacob, 43, 95, 211
New York lands, 189–190
Astor, William B., 179
Asylum Company, 38
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fé Railroad, 316, 319
Atlantic Monthly, 308
Auburn, N. Y., 84, 251
Austin, Henry, 226
Austin, James Brown, 218
Austin, Moses, 193, 195, 213–217
Austin, Stephen F., 221–223, 226, 231
empresario in Texas, 213–219
in the New Madrid Claims, 207–210
Austin Papers, The, notes, 193, 197, 207, 208, 215, 216, 217, 218, 221, 224, 226
Autobiography of Frederick W. Seward, 251, note
Avalardo, Señor, 267
Azusa, “city” of, 319
Babson, Roger W., 336, 344
Baldwin Corporation, 307
Baltimore, Md., 210, 211
suburban lot “boom,” 252–253
Texas excitement in, 219
Baltimore Advocate, 232, 241
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 253, 277
“Banana Belt,” Jay Cooke’s, 294–311
Bancroft, Hubert Howe, 262, 263; notes, 173, 264, 268, 269
Bancroft family, 123
Bangor, Me., 241
Banking in Illinois, Huston and Russell, 246, note
Bank of England, 153
Bank of Hartford, 45, 121
Bank of New York, 39, 40, 43, 45
Bank of the United States (First), 41
Bank of the United States (Second), 177
Baring, Alexander, 39
Baring banking house, 183
Barker, Eugene C., 227, note
Barlow, Joel, 48, 107–110
Barth, Count de, 109
Barton, Benjamin, 73
Bastrop, Philip Henry Neri, Baron de, 200, 214
Batavia, N. Y., 81, 84, 86
Bath, N. Y., 74, 75
Bath Gazette, 74
Bean, L. A., 350
Beard, Charles A., 30, note
Beaubien, Carlos, 272
Beaverland (see Castorland)
Beers and Co., J. D., 243
Belle-Chaise, Joseph, 204
Benton, Caleb, 56
Benton, Thomas H., 195
Benton, Thomas Hart, 178, 195, 267
Berkeley, Lord, 1
Better Business Bureau of New York City, 342
Bexar, Texas, 213
Beyond the Mississippi, Albert D. Richardson, 315
Biddle, Nicholas, 84, 178
Biggs, Joseph, 175
Biggs, Thomas, 270
Big Prairie, Ill., 185
Bingham, William, 39, 46, 70, 240
Bingham’s Million Acres, 39, 240
Binghamton, N. Y., 39
Biographical Sketches, etc., John McDonald, 177
Birkbeck, Morris, 174, 184–188; 185, note
Bishop, Abraham, 138, note
Black River, 87, 88
Bleecker, Leonard, 140
Blodget, Samuel, Jr., 154–156
Blount, William, 135
Boca Raton, Fla., 349–352
“Bonanza” farms, 306–308
Bonaparte, Joseph, 91–93
Bond, Beverly W., Jr., notes, 112, 115
Boom in Paradise, T. H. Weigall, 348 note
Booms, city and town, 313–330
Florida, 331–352
results of, 333
Boone, Daniel, 12, 195
Bordentown, N. J., 92
Boston, 154
in the post-Revolutionary mania, 43, 44
Boston Ten Towns, 55, note
Boudinot, Elias, 111–118
Bourbon “county,” 125
Bourne, Sylvanus, 159
Bowie, James, 228
Bowles, Samuel, 268, note
Boyd, J. P., 23, note
Brace, Jonathan, 121
Bradley, William A., 199
Brannen, Samuel, 258
Breckinridge, John C., 297
Breese, Sidney, 278
Brevoort, Henry, 189
Bridel, Jean Louis Philippe, 80
Broderick, David C., 262
Brooklyn, N. Y., 102
Brown, John, 96–97
Brown, Samuel, 55, note
Brunswick Gazette, 113
Bryan, Wilhelmus Bogert, notes, 150, 151, 152, 155, 157, 165
Bryan, William Jennings, 336, 344, 348
Buffalo, N. Y., 81, 246, 329
town lot “booms,” 250, 251
Buffalo Historical Society Publications, notes, 60, 251
Buffalo Land Register, 251
Building of the Pacific Railroad, Edwin L. Sabin, 293 note
Bullock County, Ga., 144
Burnes, Mr., 150
Burnett, David G., 223, 226
Burr, Aaron, 40, 62, 63
conspiracy, 119, 202, 206
in the Astor-Morris land litigation, 190
in the De Bastrop Claim, 199–202
land deals, 96
land politics in New York, 79–80, 88
western expedition, 200
Bushnell, Campbell, 243
Butler, Charles, 83, 84, 242–243, 253
Bye, Henry, 203
Byrd, William, 13
Byrd family, land activities, 12
Cairo City and Canal Company, 279
Caldwell, John, 121
Caleb Cushing, Claude F. Feuss, 238, note
California, gold rush, 256
land gambles, 255–270
Mexican grants, 263–270
mission lands, 263
pueblo lands, 263
railroad and town building in, 317–322
Spanish grants, 256
California Land Colonization Commission, 270, note
California Tax Commission, 269
Callender, Robert, 17, 20
Calvert, Sir George, 1
Camden, Lord, 19
Campbell, Joseph, 20
Canada, 66
Canada de Cochiti Grant, 270
Canajoharie Indians, 16, note
Canals, 79, 81, 131
inferior to railroads, 278
land grants used for railroads, 276 (see also under individual names)
Canandaigua, N. Y., 45, 52, 55, 58
Canfield, Thomas H., 303
Canton Company, 252, 277
Cape St. Vincent, N. Y., 90
Capitalists, eager for land grants, 281
eastern, 289
in the Florida boom, 337
Carnes, Thomas P., 135
Carondelet, governor of Louisiana, 201
Carrère, M., 203
Carroll, Daniel, 158
Carter family, 12
Carteret, Lord, 1
Cary, Trumbull, 84
Casa Grande Land and Improvement Company, 273
Cass, George W., 306
Castle Point, N. J., 252
Castorland, 87, 88
Catlin, Lynde, 223, 226
Catterall, Ralph C. H., 178, note
Cazenove, Theophile, 60, 66, 77–81
Cazenove & Co., J. Henry, 60
Central Pacific Railroad, 287
Chappell, Absalom H., 144, note
Chapters on the History of the Southern Pacific, Stuart Doggett, 293, note
Charleston, S. C., 125
Charleston, W. Va., 44
Charmette (Dardenne) Creek, 198
Chase, Salmon P., 301
Chassanis, Pierre, 48, 87, 88
Chautauqua County, N. Y., 84, 86
Chenango River, 55, note
Cheney, B. P., 306
Cherokee Indians, 124
land purchases from, 12–14
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, 325
Chevalier, Michael, 191, 232, 238–239; 233, note
Chicago, “boom” town, 248–250
financial collapse, 254
real estate deals, 244–246
Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, 286
Chicago Historical Society Collections, 188, note
Chickasaw Indians, 124, 244
Chile, 260
Chillicothe, Ohio, 176, 177
founding, 173
land office, 170
China, trade with, 43
Choctaw Indians, 124
land purchases from, 125
Chouteau, Pierre, 199
Cincinnati, 119, 173, 177, 178
founding, 172, 173
land office, 170
town jobbing, 116
Cisco and Co., John J., 290
City building, a form of speculation, 317–330
suburban development, 326, 329
Civil War, 38, 144
Claiborne, Wm. C. C., 128, note; 196
Clare, N. Y., 91
Clark, Allen C., notes, 37, 145, 158, 159, 161
Clark, Daniel, 204, 206
Clark, George Rogers, 128, 129, 180, 181
Clarmorgan, Henry, 200
Clarmorgan, Jacques, 197, 198
Clarmorgan Grant, 197–200
Clarmorgan Grant, The, 199
Clarmorgan Land Association, 199
Clay, Henry, 238
Cleaveland, Isaac, 121
Cleveland, Ohio, 121
founding, 172, 173
settlement, 123
suburban development, 329
Clinton, De Witt, 83
Clinton, George, 65, 67
Cobbett, William, 187
Colbert, Count de, 142
Colfax, Schuyler, 301
Colfax County, N. M., 272
Collections of the New York Historical Society, 31, note
Collier, Barron G., 336, 351
Colonial period, landed aristocracy in the South, 3
land problems, 1–28
Colonies, conflicting claims, 3, 4 (see also under separate names)
Colonization, crown grants, 2, 25
English, 1–2
Colorado River, 214
Colquhoun, Patrick, 59, 74
Colton, Mr., 238, note
Columbia County, N. Y., 206
Columbus, Christopher, 1
Comanche Indians, 215, 221
Compagnie de New York, 87, 89
Compagnie du Scioto, 107–110
Congregational Church, and the Western Reserve, 120
Congress, and the Northwest Territory, 33, 34
California land title investigation, 263
construction loans to railroads, 287
grants to states, 279
in the Louisiana Purchase, 211
Louisiana title investigation, 195
miscellaneous land claims, 140, 183, 202, 206, 207–210, 265, 271
on the Federal City, 147–150
small scale land sales, 117
Congressional Globe, passim
Connecticut, 213
claims in New York State, 54, 69–72
claims in Ohio, 119–123
emigration rage, 122, 123
land grants in Pennsylvania, 23–25
legislative acts, 70–72, 120
overpopulation in Colonial period, 22
western cession, 71
Western Reserve, 45, 71, 119–123
“Connecticut Claims,” 24–25
Connecticut Company, 45
Connecticut Gore Land Company, 69–72
“Connecticut Gore Land Company,” magazine article, 70, note
Connecticut in Transition, R. J. Purcell, 123, note
Connecticut Land Company, 121, 122, 172
Connecticut Quarterly, 44, note
“Connecticut’s Experiment in Expansion, The Susquehannah Company,” J. P. Boyd, 23, note
Connogochaegue River, 150
Constable, James, 43
Constable, William, 40, 42, 46, 59, 64, 68, 87, 107, 142
Constitutions, etc., of the Galveston Bay and Texas Land Company, 225, note
Continental Congress, 41
and the Northwest Territory, 99–102
in Massachusetts-New York controversy, 54–55
Cooke, Henry D., 295, 299
Cooke, Jay, as railroad capitalist, 294–311
control of Northern Pacific, 302
Cooke & Company, Jay, 300–311
Cooke family, 123
Cooper, James, 144
Cooper, James Fenimore, 16
Cooper, Peter, 253
Cooper, William, 16, 49, 51, 88, 171
Cooperstown, N. Y., 16, 171
Copper River, 198
Coral Gables, Fla., 335, 347
Coral Gables Consolidated, Inc., 348
Cordova, Jacob de, 226
Corning, Erastus, 243
Cornwallis, Lord, 29
Correspondence of John Cleves Symmes, The, Beverly W. Bond, Jr., notes, 112, 115
Cox, Zachariah, 131, 135
Coxe, Tench, 48
Craigie, Andrew, 46, 61, 106, 109, 135
Crawford, William, 5
Credit associations, 342
Crédit Foncier, 288–293, 298
Crédit Mobilier, 288–293
Crédit Mobilier in America, J. B. Crawford, 289, note
Creek Indians, 124
Croghan, George, 4, 16, 19
Crommelin & Sons, Daniel, 37
in Washington “boom,” 159
Crossfield, Stephen, 25, 26, 28
Curtis, George, 223
Curtis, James L., 244
Cushing, Caleb, 237
Custis, Elizabeth Parke, 161
Cutler, Manasseh, 49, 101–106, 110, 113
use of land “scrip,” 53
Cyclopaedia of American Biography, 245, note
Dallas, Alexander J., 132
Dalrymple, William, 306
Dartmouth, Lord, 99
Dauphin Island, 196
Davis, Henry Gassaway, 272
Davis, Jefferson, 286
Davis, Joseph Stencliffe, notes, 103, 106, 109
Davis, Myra (see Gaines, Myra Clark)
Davis, William H., 258
Day, Anthony, 223
Dayton, Jonathan, 111–119, 172, 202
in Macomb’s Great Purchase, 66
Dayton, Ohio, 119, 173
Deane, Silas, 29, 31, 35
pre-Revolutionary land interests, 20–22
Deane Papers, The, notes, 31, 35
De Bastrop Claim, 200
Declaration of Independence, 14
De Granges, Madame Zubime, 205
De La Guerra family, 269
Delassus, Carlos, 194, 197
Delaware & Hudson Canal Company, 79
Delaware Companies, 23
Delaware River, 35, 149
Democratic Party, 140
Description of Ohio, Manasseh Cutler, 49
Description . . . of the Genesee Country, etc., Charles Williamson, 75
Detroit, Mich., 40, 176
Devonshire, England, 41
Dewhurst, John, 49
De Witt, Green, 222, 223
Diana township, N. Y., 93
Diaries of George Washington, notes, 128, 132, 151
Dickens, Charles, 163, 321, 338
on city building in America, 312
Dodge, Grenville M., 283, 292
in railroad building, 286
Dodge, William E., 145
Dodge County, Ga., 145
Doheny, E. L., 270
Donaldson, Alfred Lee, notes, 66, 96, 97
Douglas, Stephen A., 279, 283
Drew, Daniel, 253
Duane, James, 26–28
Duanesburg, N. Y., 27
Dublin, Ireland, 42
Duer, John, 42
Duer, William, 39–42, 46, 48, 61, 153
Maine land interests, 240
Ohio land interests, 101–110
“short” sales of land, 107
use of land “scrip,” 53
Duer, William A., 41
Duluth, Minn., 297, 305
Dunmore, John, Earl of, 13, 19, 20
Duponceau, Peter, 92
Du Pont, T. Coleman, 336, 349
Dutchess County, N. Y., 175
Duyckinck, Christopher, 26
Dwight, Theodore, 82, 135; 137, note; 143
Dwight, Timothy, 32, 34
Early History of Galveston, Dyer, 224
Early History of Leavenworth, H. Miles Moore, 315, note
Early Illinois Railroads, William K. Acker man, 282, note
East Boston Company, 253
Eastern Branch, 150
Easton, Rufus, 193–196
East River, 250
Economica, a Statistical Manual for the United States, 154, note
Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States, An, Charles A. Beard, 30, note
Economy township, N. Y., 97
Edgar, John, 181–183
Edwards, Haden, 201
Edwards County, Ill., 185
Eight Months in Illinois, William Oliver, 247, note
Elkins, Stephen B., 271–273
Ellicott, Andrew, 81
Ellicott, Joseph, 81, 83
Emigrant Aid Society of Boston, 316
Emmerich, Nicholas, 189
Emmett & Ogden, 190
Empire State (see New York State)
England, American land peddled in, 48, 57, 79
American colonization, 2
claims in New York, 62, 64, 65
colonial land speculation, 1, 16
in American land “booms,” 246
interest in Old Northwest, 183–188
in the Washington “boom,” 159–161
land grants, 1–3
Erie, Lake, 39, 119, 174, 177, 246
Erie Canal, 81, 171
Erie Company, 122
Erie Railroad, 77
Erie triangle, 39
Erwin, Andrew, 220, 221
Essays in the Earlier . . . Corporations, Joseph S. Davis, notes, 103 106, 109
Estaing, Count d’, 142
Etting, Solomon, 21
Europe, American land peddled in, 21, 35–37, 47–54, 68, 95, 106
immigration from, 190
scarcity of capital, 302
Evans, Paul Demund, notes, 60, 61, 66, 77, 80, 86
Everglades, the, 335, 351
Excess Company, 120
Fairfax, Lord, 5
Falls of the Delaware, 149, 150
Fargo, N. D., 306
Farmers Loan and Trust Company of New York, 86
Farms, developed in Florida, 351
Far West, city building in, 318
Fauchet, Joseph, 51, 143
Faux, William, 176, 185, 187; 177, note
Fearon, Henry Bradshaw, 187
Feather River Valley, 266
Federalist Party, 140
Fell, Jesse, 283
Felton, Samuel M., 298
Fergus Historical Series, 254, note
Fessenden, Samuel S., 295
Feuss, Claude F., 238, note
Fifty Years in Both Hemispheres, Vincent Nolte, 95; 211, note
Financier and Finances of the American Revolution, The, William Graham Sumner, 59, note
Fire Lands, 120
First National Bank of Santa Fé, 273
Flagler, Henry M., 335
Fletcher vs. Peck, 141
Flint, Royal, 106, 107, 117
“Floats,” 316
Florida, 244, 255
“boom” of 1925–26, 248, 331–352
climatic advantages, 331
Connecticut immigration, 22
crash in land values, 337
early land companies, 331–333
hurricane damage, 346
land sale to tourists, 334
list of “developments,” 340
post-hurricane activity, 348
Texas excitement in, 219
Florida, Kenneth Roberts, 337, note
Florida Cities Finance Company, 341
Florida Credit Association, 342
Florida Development Board, 337
Florida East Coast Railroad, 335
Florida Historical Society Quarterly, 333, note
Florida in the Making, Stockbridge and Perry, 343
Florida Real Estate Association, 342
Flower, George, 185–188
Floyd, William, 148
Forbes, John, 332
Forbes, John Murray, 285
Forbes Purchase, 331
Fort Pitt (see Pittsburgh)
Fort Washington (Northwest Territory), 116, 117
Fort Worth, Texas, 230
“Forty-Niners,” 256
Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet, John Sherman, 295, note
Foster, Benjamin F., 221
Fox, Charles Donald, 342, 343
Foxcroft, John, 16, 17
France, American land peddled in, 107
colonial land claims in the West, 2–4
Louisiana cession, 192–194
revolution, 153
speculative colonial attitude, 1
Francis, John, 96
Franco-Prussian War, effect on capital, 302
Franklin, Benjamin, 87
land interests, 15–18
Franklin, William, 15, 16
Franklin, William Temple, 59, 60
“Franklin, State of” (see Tennessee)
Franklin County, Ga., 142
Franklin County, N. Y., 90
Franks, David, 18, 109
Franks family, 20
Frazier, Nalbro, 107
Frederick the Great, 200
Frémont, John C., 266–268, 295
French émigrés, land sales to, 38, 48, 51, 68, 87–94, 109, 143
Frugality township, N. Y., 97
Fulton Chain of Lakes, 96
Gaines, Myra Clark, 204–205
Gallatin, Albert, 132, 193
Gallipolis, Ohio, 109, 110
Galloway, Joseph, 16, 17, 24
Galveston, Texas, 225, 226
Galveston Bay, 223
Galveston Bay and Texas Land Co., 223–228
Galveston City Company, 227
Galveston Island, 227
Garfield, James A., 289
Garfield family, 123
Genesee Company (see New York Genesee Land Company)
Genesee County, N. Y., 48, 81
Genesee River, 57, 74
Genesee Valley, 58
Geneseo, N. Y., “Big Tree,” 57, 62
Wadsworth holdings, 45, 46
Geneva, N. Y., 74, 83, 242
George, Henry, 255, 269
George III, King, 22
Georgetown, D. C., 41, 150, 153
Georgia, 49, 51
cession of Yazoo to United States, 137
Gorham lands in, 45
land frauds, 13, 125
land troubles, 124–146
military tracts, 32
Georgia Company, 133–137
Georgia Mississippi Land Company, 133, 135
Georgia Speculation Unveiled, Abraham Bishop, 138, note
Georgia Yazoo Company, 126
German Emigration Company, 230
German Flats, 54
Germans, as settlers, 5, 27
Germantown, Pa., 150
Gihon, John N., 257, note
Gilded Age, The, Twain and Warner, 275
Girard, Stephen, 95, 189, 200
in the De Bastrop claim, 203
Gist, Christopher, 4
Glenn, John, 199
Goelet, Peter, 189
Gore, Christopher, 107
“Gore, The,” 69
Gorham, Nathaniel, 45, 55–58
Graetz, Bernard, 19
Graetz family, 20
Graham, George S., 349
Granger, Erastus, 44
Granger, Gideon, 44, 46, 58, 83
Granger, Gideon, Jr., 121, 136
Granger, James N., 44
Granville, Mass., 173
Granville, Ohio, 173
Great Kanawha River, 8–10
Great Lakes, 40, 246
Great Lakes to Gulf waterway, 278
Great Western Railroad of Illinois, 278
Greeley, Horace, 284
Green, Talbert H., 258
Greenleaf, James, 37, 38, 40, 96
land interests, 134, 143, 150–156
Greenleaf and Law in the Federal City, Allen C. Clark, notes, 37, 145, 158, 159, 161
Greenleaf’s Point, 38
Griffith, Robert E., 203
Griffith, William, 79
Grinnell, Henry, 281
Griswold, George, 281
Guadaloupe, 197
Guadalupe Hidalgo, treaty of, 263
Guadalupe River, 222
Guide to the Wilderness, William
Cooper, 49
Gunn, James, 133, 136
Hackensack Meadows, 252
Haight, John S., 237
Halsey, Jeremiah, 69
Hamilton, Alexander, 33, 41, 55, 67, 130, 140
and the Bank of New York, 39, 40
avoidance of land mania, 37
in litigations, 71, 88
Kingston petition, 148
Ohio interests, 105
small scale land sales, 117
Hamilton, Andrew, 20
Hamilton, William, 20
Hamilton, Ohio, 179
Hamilton County, N. Y., 25
Hampton, Wade, 130, 134
Hancock, George, 230
Harlan, James, 302
Harlem River, 41
Harmar, Josiah, 112
Harper, Rice, 297
Harper, Robert Goodloe, 21, 31, 49, 70, 135
Harrisburg, Pa., 150
Harrison, Congressman, 200
Harrison, William Henry, 116, 169, 176, 180–181, 245
Harrison, W. Va., 200
Hartford, Conn., 69
in the post-Revolutionary mania, 43, 45
land jobbing center, 34
Hartford Courant, 77
Haskins, Charles Homer, notes, 126, 127, 129, 130, 141
Haven, Franklin, 281
Hawes, Horace, 257, 258
Hawkins, Joseph H., 214, 216–219
Hayes family, 123
Head rights, 2, 142
in Louisiana, 193
Hearings before the Joint Congressional Committee on the Investigation of the Northern Pacific Land Grants, 310, note
Hearst, William Randolph, 270
Heckscher, August, 336
Henderson, A., 12, note
Henderson, Richard, 12
Henderson, William, 68
Henry, Patrick, 13, 126
land activities, 12
Yazoo interests, 128–130, 138
Herculaneum, Mo., 208
Herkimer, Nicholas, 54
Herreschoff, Charles Frederick, 97
Hill, James J., 323
Hill, Walter C., 338
Hillsborough, Lord, 17
Historical, Geographical . . . United States, An, William Winterbottom, 49
Historical Sketch of Illinois Central Railroad, William K. Ackerman, 280, note
History of California, A, Theodore H. Hittell, notes, 257, 258, 267, 269
History of California, and an extended History of Los Angeles, J. M. Guinn, 320, note
History of Chicago, Moses and Kirk-land, notes, 248, 253
History of Lewis County, N. Y., Franklin B. Hough, notes, 92, 93
History of Missouri, Louis Houck, 193, note
History of New Mexico, 274, note
“History of New Mexico, Its Resources and People,” 271, note
History of the Adirondacks, Alfred Lee Donaldson, notes, 66, 96, 97
History of the English Settlement in America, George Flower, 185
History of the English Settlement in Edwards County, George Flower, 188, note
History of the Insurance Company of North America, A, 156, note
History of the National Capital, A, notes, 150, 151, 152, 155, 157, 165
History of the Pacific Coast Metropolis, A, John P. Young, notes, 258, 262
History of the People of the United States, John Bach McMaster, notes, 110, 136
History of the Public Domain of Georgia, S. G. McLendon, 142, note
History of Toledo, Ohio, Clark Waggoner, 175, note
Hittell, J. S., 263, note
Hittell, Theodore H., notes, 257, 258, 267, 269
Hoboken, N. J., 252
Hoffman, David, 267, 268
Hoffman, Josiah Ogden, 80
Holbrook, Darius B., 279
Holder, John, 125
Holker, John, 107
Holland, 200
French invasion, 165
in New York land deals, 60–62
in the post-Revolutionary mania, 37, 39
in the Washington “boom,” 159
Holland Land Company, 60–63, 73, 242
land development, 77–86
liberality, 82
political animosity against, 84
Holland Land Company, The, Paul Demund Evans, notes, 60, 61, 66, 80, 86
Holland Purchase, 73, 77–81, 123
Hollandshe Land Company (see Holland Land Company)
Holliday, Cyrus K., 316
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, 23
Homburg, Simon, 321
Homestead Act of 1862, 288
Homesteading, benefits of, 286
Hone, Philip, 229
Hopkins, Samuel, 70
Hornby, John, 59, 74
Houck, Louis, 193, note
Hough, Franklin B., notes, 92, 93
Houston, Sam, 219, 229, 230
Texas land interests, 220
Hubbard, Gardner S., 253
Hudson, N. Y., 56
Hudson River, 54, 63
Huger, Isaac, 125
Hulbert, Archer B., 104, note
Hull, William, 120, 176
Huntington, Collis P., 274, 325
Illinois, 20, 246
French settlers’ claims, 15
settlement, 170–188
town lot “boom,” 248–250
Illinois and Michigan Canal, 248, 276
Illinois Central Railroad, 278, 285
charter granted to, 280
construction begun, 281
Illinois Company, 109
Illinois Land Company, 18, 19
Illinois River, 18, 180
Imlay, Gilbert, 49, 51
Indiana, 17, 247
settlement, 179–188
Indiana Company, 117
Indiana Land Company, 17–20
Indian Boundary of 1763, 5–7, 10, 12, 228
Indians, 285
forced out of Middle Southwest, 314
land claims, 2–4
land purchased from, 12, 17, 23–26, 54, 59, 62, 67, 121, 125, 244
Industry township, N. Y., 97
Information Concerning . . . America, Peter Stadnitzky, 62
Ingersoll, Jared, 132
Ingles, John, 20
Ingram, Ira, 220
Insurance Company of North America, 154–156
Internal improvements, grants demanded for, 276, 280
Interstate Commerce Commission, 310, 330
Investment Bankers Association, 342
Iowa, 255
Ireland, 40
Irvine, James, 270
Irving, Washington, 123
Jackson, Andrew, 205, 223
on public land sales, 233–235, 238
James II, King, 1–2
James S. Wadsworth of Geneseo, Henry Greenleaf Pearson, 58, note
Jarrot, Nicholas, 182, 183
Jarvis, James, 107
Jarvis, Leonard, 140
Jay Cooke, Financier of the Civil War, Ellis P. Oberholtzer, 295 note
Jay’s Treaty of 1795, 65
Jefferson, Peter, 12
Jefferson, Thomas, 12, 14, 130, 185, 195
in Washington land lottery, 155
land survey plans, 57
on land values, 33
on miscellaneous frauds and sales, 128, 152, 192, 194, 206
Jefferson County, N. Y., 90
Jessup, Ebenezer, 26
Jessup, Joseph, 26
Joaquin River, 267
John Brown’s Tract, 96, 97
Johns Hopkins University, 14
Johns Hopkins University Studies, notes, 7, 8
Johnson, Seth, 107
Johnson, Sir William, 4, 15, 16, 25 (see also Sir William Johnson Papers, The)
Jones, John B., 243
Jones, Samuel W., 28, note
Josephine Mine, 267
Josephs & Co., J. L. & S., 243
in Texas land “boom,” 223–226
suburban lot promotions, 251–252
Journal of Economic and Business History, 23, note
Journal of William Maclay, The, 35; notes, 36, 150
Julian, George W., 271
Kansas, 255
land booms, 314
town development in, 315
Kaskaskia, Ill., 181–183, 272
Kaskaskia claims, 181–183
Kaskaskia River, 181
Kearny, S. Watts, 256
Kennebec Purchase, 2
Kennebec River, 2
Kentucky, 12, 13, 112, 127–129, 201, 202
military land warrants in, 32
settlement, 179
Texas excitement in, 219
Kern County, Calif., 269
Kern County Land Company, 269
Killingly, Conn., 101
King, William, 240
King’s Mountain, 13
Kingston, N. Y., 144, 147
Klondike, gold discovery in, 324
Knight, Peter O., 346
Knott, J. Proctor, 305
Knox, Henry, 39, 46, 64, 240
La Farge, John, 93
Lafayette, Marquis de, 205
Laffitte & Co., 203
Lake Superior and Mississippi Railroad, 294, 296
Lake Superior and Puget Sound Company, 298, 301, 303, 322
Land developing, 73–98, 218–219, 277
“bonanza” farms, 306
Lander, Frederick, 286
Land grants, English, 1–3
extent of, 283, 287
French, in Louisiana, 192, 195
in California, 255–270
in New Mexico, 270–274
in Ohio, 100
Mexican (see Mexican grants)
Spanish (see Spanish grants) to canals, 249, 278
to private corporation, 281
to railroads (see Railroad land grants)
Virginian, 3–5, 8
Land investments, 210–211
Land jobbing, 11–28, 32–53, 65–71
in Louisiana, 195–212
on international scale, 276
railroad, 275–293
Land of Sunshine, Los Angeles, 274, note
Land prices, 26, 29, 33, 54, 56, 65, 66, 88, 94, 102, 117, 119, 120, 133, 144, 152, 157, 158, 166, 176, 180, 208, 215, 225, 233, 236–240, 244, 249, 257
Land “scrip,” 53, 71
Mississippi, 136
Texas, 220, 224–227, 252
Land speculation, canal lots, 278
for railroad terminals, 279
in Florida, 331–352
timber lands, 295
La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, Due de, 30, 91, 137, 147, 162–164, 168
Las Vegas Grant, 272
Latrobe, Mr., 201
Law, John, 16, 136, 192, 233
Law, Thomas, 160–162, 167
Lawrence, Effingham, 26
Laws, Orders and Contract on Colonization 1821–1829, 216, note
League, Hosea H., 221–222
Lear, Tobias, 157, 160
Lebanon County, Pa., 261
Lee, Henry Carter, 32
land fraud charged, 44
Lee, Robert E., 32, 44
Lee family, 5
land activities, 12
Leftwich, Robert, 220, 221
Legend of Sleepy Hollow, The, Washington Irving, 123
L’Enfant, Pierre Charles de, 151, 152
Le pour et le contre, etc., J. L. P. Bridel, 80
Le Ray, James, 87–94
land developer, 87–92
Le Ray, Vincent, 92
Le Ray de Chaumont, Donatien, 48, 87, 93, 171
Le Ray de Chaumont, James Donatien (see Le Ray, James)
Le Raysville, N. Y., 90
Le Roy, Herman, 243
Le Roy, Jacob, 86
Letter on the Value of the Public Lands of Illinois, Robert Rantoul, Jr., 281, note
Letters from Illinois, Morris Birkbeck, 184, 186; 185, note
Leval, Madame de, 109
Levi, Levi Andrew, 17
Levi family, 20
Lewis County, N. Y., 90
Lexington, Ky., 177
Lezay-Marnesia, Marquis de, 109
Lick, James, 261–262
Licking Land Company, 173
Lick Observatory, 261
Life and Times of Stephen Girard, John Bach McMaster, 203, note
Life of Robert Morris, Ellis P. Ober-holtzer, 142, note
Life of Stephen F. Austin, The, Eugene C. Barker, 227, note
Life of Timothy Pickering, Pickering, notes, 30, 53
Limantour, Senor, 264
“Limantour,” J. S. Hittell, 263, note
Limantour Claim, 264
Lincoln, Abraham, lawyer for Western capitalists, 280
Linn, Dr., 200
Linton, Benjamin F., 235
Little Miami River, 112, 113
Livermore, Jesse L., 336, 349
Livingston, Edward, 205–207, 212
Livingston, John, 56, 120
Livingston, Peter Van B., 26
Livingston, Philip, 26, 96
Livingston, Robert, 26, 28
Livingston, Walter, 102
Livingston Manor, N. Y., 26, 28
Loderston, R., 59
London Company, 1
Long Island, suburban lot “booms,” 250
Longworth, Nicholas, 178–179
Los Angeles, Calif., land boom in and
around, 318–322
Los Angeles and San Pedro Railroad, 318
Louis XVI, King, 87
Louisiana, 119, 181
Spanish grants, 192–212
squatters in, 196
Texas excitement in, 219
under Spain, 124–129
Louisiana Historical Quarterly, 196
Louisiana Purchase, 192–194
Louis Philippe, King, 93
Louisville, Ky., 4
Low, Nichols, 40
Loyal Company, 3, 4, 13
Lucas, John B. C., 195, 212
Lucas & Co., 212
Ludlow, George W., 281
Ludlow, Israel, 119
Luzerne County, Pa., 24
Lydius, John Henry, 23
Lyle, James, 203
Lynch, Charles, 201
Lyon, Caleb, 93
McArthur, Duncan, 175–177
McCabe, E. H., 197
McCormick, Cyrus H., 18, note
McCormick, Daniel, 43, 66
McCulloch, Hugh, 301, 302
McDonald, John, 177, note
McDonogh, John, 210–211, 235
McDonogh, Md., 211
McDonogh School, 211
McGillivray, Alexander, 125
McKean, Thomas, 38, 39
McLendon, S. G., 142, note
McMaster, John Bach, notes, 110, 136, 203
McMorrow, Thomas, 337
McVickar, James, 43
Machinery, invention, 318
Maclay, William, 149, 150
on Robert Morris, 35–36
Macomb, Alexander, 26, 61, 64, 107, 109, 153
Great Purchase, 40, 43, 65–68
Ohio interests, 105
Macomb, Alexander (younger), 41
Macomb’s Dam, N. Y., 41
Macomb’s Great Purchase, 26, 43, 48, 65–68, 87, 95
Madison, James, 140, 152, 180
Mad River, 119
Maine, 27, 46, 109
“Bingham’s Million Acres,” 39
Massachusetts land sales in, 2
timber land speculation, 295
Maine Historical Society Collections, notes, 2, 240
Maison Rouge Claim, 203, 204
Malartie, Viscount de, 109
Manasseh Cutler, Cutler, 103, note
Manhattan, Ind., 247
Manhattan Island, suburban lot “booms,” 250
Mansfield, Lord, 19
Marietta, Ohio, 104
founding, 172
land office, 170
Mariposa Creek, 267
Mariposa Estate, 266–268
Mariposa Land and Mining Company, 268
Marshall, John, 32, 44, 141
Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., 101
Martin, John W., 343
Martineau, Harriet, 249, 250
Maryland, 20
and the Federal City, 148
emigrants to Texas, 214
Maryland Journal, 152
Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser, 9
Mason, John T., 224, 226, 228
Mason family, 12
Massachusetts, 62
claims in New York, 45, 54, 63, 70
colonial land sales, 2
in the post-Revolutionary mania, 45
land sales, 74
Massachusetts Savings Bank League, 342
Massie, Nathaniel, 176
Maumee City, Ohio, 247
Maumee River, 247
Maxwell, Lucien Benjamin, 272–274
Maxwell Grant, 272–273
Maxwell Land Grant and Railroad Company, 272
Maysville, N. Y., 84
Meiggs, “Harry,” 260, 261
Memoir of James Duane, Samuel W. Jones, 28, note
Memorial Days in America, etc., William Faux, notes, 177, 185, 187, 188
Memorial of the United Illinois and Wabash Land Companies, 18, note
Men and Measures of Half a Century, 241
Menard, Michel B., 227
Mercer, Charles Fenton, 230
Mercer Colony, 230
Mercer County, Calif., 269
Merchants Bank, 223
Mero, Estéban, 129
Merrick, George, 348
Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 240, note
Mexican grants, in California, 263–270
in New Mexico, 270–274
Mexico, 198
land grants in California, 263–270
land grants in New Mexico, 270–274
revolt from Spain, 217
sale of Texas rumored, 218
Texas settlement restrictions, 222, 224–228
Mexico, Gulf of, 125, 131
Mexico City, 119, 217, 218, 224
Miami Purchase, 110–119
Miami River, 112, 113, 115, 119
Michigan, 45, 243, 246, 248
Michigan, Lake, 246, 249
Middle Southwest land development, 314
Military land warrants, 31–33, 173
speculation in, 284
Miller, Joaquin, 325
Miller and Lux ranch, 269
Milligan, James, 20
Millionaires of a Day: The Inside Story of the Great Southern California Land Boom, T. S. Van Dyke, 322, note
Milwaukee, Wise, “boom” town, 248
Mine-a-Burton, Mo., 195, 208, 213
Minnesota, Jay Cooke’s interest in, 294
Minshall, Thomas, 20
Miranda, Guadelupe, 272
Miscellanies of Georgia, Absalom H. Chappell, 144, note
Mission Dolores Grant, 265
Mississippi, 126, 244
Mississippi, Claiborne, 128, note
Mississippi Bubble, 16, 136, 192, 233
Mississippi Company, 5
Mississippi River, 12, 18, 117, 124–126, 131, 180, 198, 211, 246
Mississippi Valley, 214
Mississippi Valley Historical Review, notes, 12, 219
Mississippi Valley in British Politics, The, C. W. Alvord, 4, note
Missouri, 210–213
emigrants to Texas, 214
land grant frauds, 193–196
squatter claims, 197
Missouri Fur Company, 198
Missouri River, 198, 246
Mitchel, Robert, 332
Mitchell, S. Weir, 301
Mizner, Addison, 349
Mizner Development Corporation, 350
Mobile Bay, 196
Mobile River, 131
Mohawk and Hudson Railroad, 243
Mohawk River, 25, 54
Mohawk Valley, 11, 27, 54
Monongahela River, 10
Monroe, La., 203
Montgomery County, Ga., 142, 144
Moody, William Godwin, 308
Moore, H. Miles, 314
Moore, Thomas, 163
Moorehead, William G., 296
Moreau, M., 196
Morehouse, Abraham, 201, 203
Morgan, George, 117
Morgan, John, 121
Morris, Gouverneur, 40, 166, 281
districts interested in, 64, 66, 142
early land deals, 42
general land agent, 87–95
land agent in Ohio, 170–171
land sales in France, 48, 68
New York land deals, 59
Morris, Mary, 190
Morris, Robert, 107
Fauchet’s opinion of, 51
in the post-Revolutionary wild land mania, 34–37
land jobbing, 11, 47, 48
land peddling in Europe, 57, 58, 74
military land warrant trading, 32
New York land gambling, 42, 58–63
pre-Revolutionary land interests, 20–22
public office, 41
sections interested in, 56, 64, 130, 132, 134, 141–149, 158–168
use of land “scrip,” 53
Morris, Robert, Jr., 60–62, 144
New York land sales in Holland, 61
Morris, Mrs. Robert, 166
Morris, Roger, 189
Morris, Thomas, 58, 62, 63
Morrisania, 42, 166
Morrison, Robert, 183
Morrison, William, 182, 183
Morristown, N. J., 111
Morrisville, 35, 149
Morse, Jedidiah, 19, 134
Morton, Perez, 136
Moultrie, Alexander, 125
Mt. Carmel and New Albany Railroad, 277
Mount Hamilton, 261
Mount Vernon, 8, 9, 161
Murray, John, 20
Murray, William, 18–20
Muscle Shoals, Ala., 131
Muskingum Valley, 113
My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands, George Francis Train, 289, note
Myra Clark Gaines Case, 204
Nacogdoches, Texas, 227
Napoleon I, Emperor, 200, 211
Nashville, Tenn., 131, 201, 229
Texas excitement in, 220
Natchez, Miss., 126, 131
Natchitoches, La., 214
National Land System, The, Payson Jackson Treat, notes, 57, 106, 169
Navarro County, Texas, 230
Neal, David A., 281
Nebraska, land booms, 314
terminal speculation in, 290
Necker, Jacques, 42, 48, 91, 93
Neville, Presley, 11
New Amsterdam (see Buffalo and New York State)
Newark, N. J., 178
New Babylon, Kansas, 316
New Brighton Company, 252
New England, in the post-Revolutionary mania, 39–46
land grabbing, 22–25
New England Mississippi Land Company, 135
New Hampshire, conflict with New York, 26–28
New Harmony, 188
New Jersey, 15, 111, 116
English grants in, 1
New Jersey Journal, 115
New London, Conn., 120
New Madrid, Mo., 197, 198, 207, 209, 213
New Mexico, cession to United States, 270
Mexican grants, 270
Spanish grants, 273
New Mexico Mining Co., 271
New Orleans, La., 127, 131, 194, 203–212
New Orleans beach front claim, 205–207
Newport News, Va., 325
Newspapers, to boom lands, 333
New Travels in America, Brissot de Warville, 49
New York Assembly Journal, 83
New York City, 60, 149
land jobbing center, 34
real estate values in, 328
Texas excitement in, 220
town lot “booms,” 250, 251
New York Genesee Land Company, 56
New York Life Insurance and Trust Company, 83
New York Public Library, 202
New York State, 1, 147
at end of Revolutionary War, 54
British claims in, 64, 65
conflict with New Hampshire, 26–28
Connecticut claims in, 22, 54, 69–72
crown lands acquired, 63
early land “retailing,” 73–98
early land “wholesaling,” 54–72
“Gore” conflict, 69–71
in the post-Revolutionary mania, 39–43
land sales, 64–66
Massachusetts claims in, 45, 54–56, 63, 70
military tracts, 32
on Macomb’s Great Purchase, 67
pre-Revolutionary land activity, 25–28
settlement, 172
town lot “boom,” 188–191
New York Stock Exchange, 140, 253, 268, 342
New York Weekly Tribune, 284, note
Niagara River, 55, 62
Nicholas, Wilson Cary, 32, 44
Nicholson, John, 77
in Washington “boom,” 158–168
land interests, 36–38
military land warrant trading, 32
Pine Barrens interests, 142–145
use of land “scrip,” 53
Nicholson family, 12
Nickel Plate Railroad, 330
Niles Register, 232; 241, note
Nisbet, James, 257, note
Noailles, Duc de, 51
Nolte, Herman, 211
Nolte, Vincent, 94; 211, note
Norfolk, Va., 184
North America, Anthony Trollope, 282, note
North American Land Company, 38, 47–50, 135, 143–145, 160, 165
North American Review, 225
North Beach, San Francisco, 260
North Carolina, 12
Northern Pacific Railroad, 242, 298, 322
bond issues, 300, 307
disposing of land, 309
popular title of, 300
promotion of, 295
story of land grant, 304
Northwest, railroad operations in, 309
Northwestern Improvement Company, 310
Northwest Territory, 17, 99–123, 128, 181, 207
(see also Ohio)
Notes and Observations, etc., George Sibbald, 144
Notes of a Journey in America, Morris Birkbeck, 174, 184
Notes on the United States of America, Gouverneur Morris, 170; 171, note
Nova Scotia, Connecticut immigration, 22
Nye, James Warren, 281
Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxton, 295; notes, 142, 304
Observation on the River Potomac, etc., Tobias Lear, 160
Observations on . . . American Landed Property, John Dewhurst, 49
Ocean View Land Improvement Company, 326
O’Fallon, James, 127–129
Ogden, Abraham, 40
Ogden, David, 40
Ogden, Samuel, 40, 59, 64, 65
Ogden, Thomas Ludlow, 40
Ogden, William, 40
Ogden, William B., 243, 253, 278, 295
Ogden, Utah, 254
Ogden Purchase, 64
Ogdensburg, N. Y., 40, 65, 94
Oglethorpe, James Edward, 1, 141
O’Hara, W. M., 208
Ohio, Connecticut claims in, 119–123
Connecticut Western Reserve, 45, 71, 119–123
Indian warfare in, 62, 105
land sales and land grants, 99–123
military land warrants in, 32
settlement, 99–123, 169–179
swindle of French in, 48
Texas excitement in, 219
Virginia Military Reserve, 176, 177 (see also Northwest Territory)
Ohio Associates, 113, 172
Ohio Company (1748), 3–7
Ohio Company (1787), 33
Ohio Company of Associates, 101–107, 110
Ohio River, 4, 7, 8, 15, 18, 118, 246
Great Bend, 9
wine industry, 179
Oklahoma, land booms, 314
Old Dominion Land Company, 326
Old Forge, N. Y., 97
Old Merchants of New York, The, 252, note
Old Military Tract, 56
Old Northwest, British speculators in, 183–188
French colonies, 181
origin of settlers, 177
settlement, 169–191
Old Northwest Genealogical Quarterly, 173, note
Oliver, William, 247, note
One Hundred Years of the Hartford Bank, P. H. Woodward, 123, note
O’Neil, Jerome, 270
Ontario, Lake, 26, 55, 75, 77, 87
Opdyke, George, 295
Ordinance of 1784, 99
Ordinance of 1785, 99
Ordinance of 1787, 33, 99, 101
Oritz Mine grant, 271
Orleans County, N. Y., 245
Osborn, J. W., 258
Osgood, Samuel, 102
Oswegatchie, N. Y., 65
Otis, Harrison Gray, 240
Otto, Jacob S., 83
Our Land Policy, National and State, 255
Our New West, Samuel Bowles, 268, note
Overland Monthly, 264, note
Owego River, 55, note
Owen, Robert, 188
Pacific Coast, city building on, 318
Pacific Railroad, plans for first, 286
route of, 287
Paine, Thomas, 51
Palatinate, 5
Palm Beach, Fla., 335
Panic of 1837, 226, 229, 232–254, 255, 278, 314, 319
Panton, Leslie and Company, 331
Papers Relating to the Clarmorgan Grant, 199
Paris, France, 90
Parish, David, 94–95, 171
Parish, George, 95
Parish, John, 94
Parishville, N. Y., 95
Parker, Joseph, 117
Parkinson, Richard, 49–51
Pearson, Henry Greenleaf, 58, note
Pejebsco Company, 2
Pell, R. L., 144
Penets Square, N. Y., 93
Penn, Governor, 23
Penn, William, 1
Penney, J. C., 336, 351
Pennsylvania, 29
Connecticut immigration, 22
debt payment in land, 36
Dutch land interests in, 77
Franklin’s agency in England, 15
“Gore” conflict, 69–71
land gambling in, 35–39
military land warrants, 32
settlement, 172
squatting, 24
troop mutiny, 148
troubles with Connecticut, 23–25
Pennsylvania German Magazine, 261, note
Pennsylvania Magazine of History, 18, note
Pennsylvania Population Company, 38, 77, 79
Pennsylvania Railroad, 253, 277
Peralta, Don Miguel de, 273
Peralta-Reavis, Addison (see Reavis, James Addison)
Peralta-Reavis Grant, 273–274
Perham, Josiah, 242, 295, 300
Perkins, James, 140
Perrère, Emile, 288
Perrère, Isaac, 288
Perry, John Holliday, 343
Perrysburg, Ohio, 247
Perseverance township, N. Y., 97
Peru, 260, 261
Petersburg, Va., 44
Peto, Sir Morton, 296
Pharoux, M., 88
Phelps, Oliver, 44, 45, 52–58, 120, 135
Phelps and Gorham Purchase, 55, 70, 74
Phelps, Dodge & Company, 145
Philadelphia, 16, 20, 60, 148, 150, 154
Cazenove’s headquarters, 61
center of military land warrant trading, 32
land jobbing center, 34, 37–39
Texas excitement in, 219
town lot “boom,” 189
Philadelphia American Advertiser, 51
Philadelphia and Erie Land Company, 294
Philadelphia Association, 264–265
Philanthropy, in land development, 351
Pickering, Timothy, 24, 30, 46, 53
military land warrant trading, 32
Pico, Andree, 269
Pico, Pio, 269
Piedmont section, 3
Pierrepont, Hezekiah B., 43
Pine Barrens, 49–52, 132, 141–146
Pine Tree Mine, 267
Pioneer Settlement of the “Phelps and Gorham’s Purchase” O. Turner, 75, note
Pittsburgh, Pa., 7, 10, 20
Pittsburgh Pike, 123
Plant, Henry B., 335
Plain Facts . . . Indiana, Samuel Wharton, 18
Plattsburg, N. Y., 41
Plymouth Company, 1
Pomeroy, Josiah, 66
Ponce de León, Juan, 331
Ponzi, Charles, 341
Pools, railroad, 300–305
Port Lawrence, Ohio, 174, 175
Port Lawrence Company, 174
Post, Gabriel B., 258
Post-Revolutionary period, wild land mania, 29–53
Potomac Company, 11, 160
Potomac River, 10, 148, 150
Eastern Branch, 38
Preëmption Act of 1834, 235
Premium lands, 213–231
“Pre-Revolutionary Revolt in the Old Southwest, A,” A. Henderson, 12, note
Prescott, William H., 243
Preston, John, 44
Price, Rodman H., 258
Priest, William, 30, 52
Priestley, Dr., 51, 192
Prime, Nathaniel, 135, 140
Princeton, N. J., 148
Proceedings of the Government, etc., Thomas Jefferson, 206
Proprietors of East Jersey, 1
Proprietors of the Kennebec Purchase, 2
Proprietors of West Jersey, 1
Providence, R. I., 96
Providence (ship), 217
Prune Street Prison, Philadelphia, 37, 38, 39, 63, 165
Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, 27, note
Public land, demands for, 276
grants distributed, 276
Pulteney, Sir William, 59, 60, 74, 76
Pulteney Association, 74
Pulteney Purchase, 74–77, 79
“Pulteney Purchase, The,” Paul D. Evans, 77, note
Purcell, R. J., 123, note
Putnam, Rufus, 46, 101, 104
Putnam County, N. Y., 189
Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association, 77, note
Railroad land grants, 38, 242, 276
extent of, 285
first, 278
sale in lots, 282
Railroad Promotion and Capitalization in the United States, Cleveland and Powell, 277, note
Railroads, 77
bond issues, 287
construction, 318
early operation not profitable, 285
eastern capitalists in, 280
extent of land jobbing, 275–293
land companies as subsidiaries of, 304
land speculation by promoters, 375
main activity of early, 282
mergers, 330
plan for first transcontinental, 286
rage for building, 277
right to own real estate, 277
rights of way, 277
terminal land speculation, 279, 290
transcontinental, 316
(see also under separate headings)
Rambouillet, France, 90
Randolph, John, 46, 136, 140
Rantoul, Robert, Jr., 280
Real estate corporations, 327, 337, 342
Reavis, James Addison, 273–274
Records and Proceedings of the Ohio Company, The, Archer B. Hulbert, 104, note
Redfield, Herman, 86
Red River (New Mexico), 272
Red River Valley, N. D., 306
Redstone, Pa., 9
Remsen, William, 40
Renée, M., architect, 94
Report, California Land Colonization Commission, 270, note
Retail Credit Company of Atlanta, 338
Retrospection, Hubert Howe Bancroft, notes, 173, 262, 263, 268
Revolutionary War, 11–13, 17–19, 25, 26, 29–53, 54, 97, 111, 154
Reynolds, Robert, 183
Rhode Island, 272
Richardson, Albert D., 315
Richmond, Va., 195
Ridgeway, Jacob, 189
Ringling, Charles, 336, 351
Ringling, John, 336, 351
Rio Grande River, 270
Roanoke, Va., 136, 140
Roberts, Kenneth, 337
Roberts, Milnor W., 299, 310
Robertson, Felix, 221
Robertson, Sterling C., 220, 222
Robinson, John M., 220
Robinson & Co., Dwight P., 350
Rochester, N. Y., 45, 57
Rock Island, Ill., 237, 238
Rocky Mountains, 272
Roosevelt, Theodore, 127, note; 146
Rose, W. W., 342
Ross, Alexander, 20
Ross, David, 129
Rossie, N. Y., 95
Rukeyser, Meryle Stanley, 343
Russell, William, 196
Sackett, Nathaniel, 100–101
Sacramento, Calif., town lot “boom,” 265
Sacramento Town Company, 265
Sacramento Valley, 266
St. Augustine, Fla., 335
St. Clair, Arthur, 119, 122, 172, 181, 182
St. Clair, John Murray, 181
St. Clair Papers, William Henry Smith, 182, note
St. Genevieve, Mo., 195
St. Johns River, 244
St. Joseph Insurance Company, 333
St. Joseph Times, 333
St. Lawrence County, N. Y., 90, 91
St. Lawrence River, 40, 59, 64, 90
St. Leger, Major, 54
St. Louis, Mo., 193, 197, 207, 210, 212
fur business in, 198
Salem, Mass., 46, 53
Salisbury, Guy H., 251
Saltillo, Texas, 228
Sandoval Grant, 270
Sandusky, Ohio, 179
San Felipe de Austin, 216
Sanford, John F. A., 281
San Francisco, Calif., Limantour Claim, 264
squatter nuisance, 257, 261
water lots, 256–260, 262
San Marcial, N. M., 270
San Marcial Land and Improvement Company, 270
Santa Clara Valley, 261
Santa Fé, N. M., 270, 273, 274
Santillan, priest, 264–265
Santillan Grant, 264–265
Saratoga, Battle of, 54
Saratoga and Sackett’s Harbor Railroad, 26
Sargent, George B., 297
Sargent, John, 16
Sargent, Thomas D., 267, 268
Sargent, Winthrop, 106, 113
Saturday Evening Post, 337
Savannah, Ga., 144
Say, George, 84
Schuyler, Peter, 56
Schuyler, Philip, on Macomb’s Great Purchase, 67
Schuyler, Robert, 281
Schuylkill River, 62, 166
Scioto Associates, 103–110
Scioto Project, 103–110
Scioto River, 102, 108, 113
Scioto Valley, 176
Scott, Thomas A., 301
Scottish Illinois Land Investment Company, 246
Seaboard Air Line, 346
Sears, William, 295
Seattle, Wash., railroad and land “booms,” 323
Second Bank of the United States, The, Ralph C. H. Catterall, 178, note
Seguin, Juan M., 227
Senate Report No. 354, 32nd Congress, 1st Session, 200, note
Seneca Lake, 55, 62
Seventy Years of an Active Life, Louis Sterne, 230, note
Sevier, John, 13, 127, 128, 131, 135
Seward, William H., 251
agent for the Holland Land Company, 84
Seybert, Adam, 210
Shee, John, 21
Sherman, Charles E., 271
Sherman family, 123
Shorter, John, 144
Sibbald, George, 144
Sierra Nevada Mountains, 267, 270
Silver King Mining Company, 273
Sir William Johnson Papers, The, notes, 4, 16
Six Nations, 17
decline, 54
land purchases from, 23
Sketches of America, etc., Henry Bradshaw Fearon, 187, note
Slavery, struggle of free-staters against, 314
Smith, George, 246
Smith, Hugh N., 270
Smith, John Gregory, 301
Smith, Lyman C., 324
Smith, Melancthon, 67, 107
Smith, Peter, 262
Smith, William Henry, 182, note
Smith, W. S., 60
Smithfield, Va., 44
Snipes, William Clay, 125
Sobriety township, N. Y., 97
Society in America, Harriet Martineau, 249; 250, note
Society, Manners and Politics in the United States, Michael Chevalier, notes, 233, 239
Sodus, N. Y., 75
Softenburg, Baron von (see Parish, George)
Soulard, Antoine, 197
Soulé, Frank, notes, 257, 258, 259
Southard, S. L., 199
South Carolina, 4, 49, 143
claims in Yazoo country, 124, 125
South Carolina Yazoo Company, 125–129, 132
Southern Pacific Railway Company, 273, 274, 318
Southold, L. I., N. Y., 110
South Sea Bubble, 321
Spain, claims in Yazoo country, 124, 125
in Louisiana, 192–212
speculative colonial attitude, 1
Spanish grants, antedaters, 193–212
in California, 256
in New Mexico, 273
in West Florida, 210
peddled, 195
Specie Circular, 236–238
Sproat, David, 20
Spuyten Duyvil, 41
Stadnitzki, Peter, 62
Staël, Madame de, 42, 91, 93, 171
Stanton, Edwin M., 264
Staten Island, 326
lot “boom,” 252
State Papers, United States (see American State Papers)
Virginia Calendar of, 14
“Sterling, Lady Kitty,” 41
“Sterling, Lord,” 41
Sterne, Louis, 229; 230, note
Steuben County, N. Y., 77
Steubenville, Ohio, land office, 170
Stevens family, 252
Stewart, Senator, 302
Stiles, Ezra, 23
Stilwell, Silas M., 244, 245
Stites, Benjamin, 112
Stockbridge, Frank Parker, 343
Stockbridge, Mass., 55, note
Story, Franklin H., 271
Strawbridge, James, 140
Sturgis, Jonathan, 281
Suburban development, 326, 329
Suffield, Conn., 45
Sullivan, James, 46, 71
Sullivan, John W., 243
Sumner, Charles, 285
Sumner, William Graham, 59, note
Sumner, William H., 223
Superior, Wise, 246, 297
Supporter or Doily Repast, The, 37
Supreme Court, land decisions, 200, 203, 205, 265, 268
Survilliers, Count (see Bonaparte, Joseph)
Susquehannah Company, 22, 25
Susquehanna River, 23, 74, 150; 55, note
Sussex County, N. J., 111
Suter’s Tavern, 153
Sutter, John, 265–266, 272
Sutter Basin Company, 266
Swartout, Samuel, 223, 224, 226, 229, 252
Sweet, Leonard, 295
Symmes, John Cleves, 66, 110–119, 169
use of land “scrip,” 53
Symmes Purchase, 33, 172
T., John Smith, 196
Tacoma, Wash., land booms in, 322–324
Tacoma Land Company, 309, 322
Tahucano Indians, 221
Talleyrand, Charles Maurice, 51
Taney, Roger B., 199
Taylor, George Keith, 32, 44
Tennessee, 13, 127
emigrants to Texas, 214
Tennessee Company, 133, 135
Tennessee Yazoo Company, 126, 131
Texas, 200, 201, 255
European colonization, 230
fraudulent grants, 229
independent republic, 218
land booms in, 229–23I, 333
Mexican grants, 217–227
Mexican settlement restrictions, 222, 224–228
origin of immigrants, 214
Republic loan, 224
sale rumored, 218
settlement through empresarios, 213–231
Spanish land grants in, 213–217
war of independence, 229
Texas and Pacific Railroad, 273
Texas Association, 220–223, 229, 230
Texas Historical Association Quarterly Magazine, 229, note
Thomson, J. Edgar, 295
Thoughts on the Increasing Wealth, etc., Samuel Blodget, Jr., 156, note
Thurman, John, 26
Thurston, Charles M., 199
Toledo, Ohio, “boom” town, 247–248
founding, 174, 175
Tombigbee River, 126
“Tom Thumb,” 253
Tontine Association, 154
Topeka, Kansas, 315
Topeka Town Association, 316
Topographical . . . North America, Gilbert Imlay, 49
Tories, property confiscated, 26
Totten, Joseph, 25, 26, 28
Tour in America, A, Richard Parkinson, 51, note
Town jobbing, 172–178, 246–254, 279
in the Louisiana territory, 207–210
Town lots, speculation in, 209
Towns, development of, 313–330
Trails, Rails and War, the Life of General G. M. Dodge, J. R. Perkins, notes, 283, 287
Train, George Francis, 298, 304
career of, 288–293
“Transylvania,” 12
Transylvania Company, 12
Travels, Theodore Dwight, 82; notes, 135, 137, 143
Travels, Timothy Dwight, 32, note
Travels, etc., La Rochefoucauld, 137, 162–164; notes, 147, 168
Travels in America, Isaac Weld, 76; notes, 160, 163
Travels in America, Performed in 1806, Thomas Ashe, notes, 110, 118
Travels in the United States of America, William Priest, 52
Treat, Pay son Jackson, notes, 57, 106, 169
Trenton, N. J., 149
Trenton Falls, N. Y., 35, 150
Tribune, New York, 284
Trinity Corporation, 190
Triplet, Robert, 227
Trollope, Anthony, on the aim of railroads, 282
Troup, Robert, 56, 76
Trudeau, Zenon, 194
Trumbull, Jonathan, 24
Truth About Florida, The, Charles Donald Fox, 342
Turner, O., 75, note
Union Pacific Railroad, 254, 283, 289
United Illinois and Wabash Land Companies, 20, 31, 35, 38, 112
United States, immigration expected, 31
Indian policy, 124, 128
land grants to soldiers, 105
land sale statistics, 235
public land auctions, 234
small scale land sales, 117, 169, 233
state papers (see American State Papers)
Texas purchase rumored, 218
western land cession, 33, 99
Yazoo claims conflicts, 124, 136
Upper Mississippi Land Company, 133, 137
Upper Trinity River, 230
Valencia County, N. M., 270
Van Buren, Martin, 190
Vandalia Company, 16, 17, 25
Van Dyke, T. S., 321
Van Sweringen, Mantis P., 329
Van Sweringen, Orvis P., 329
Vehlein, Joseph, 223, 226
Venable, Abraham B., 129
Vermont, 26–28
Vespucci, Madame, 95
Vibbard, Chauncey, 295
Vicksburg, Miss., 125
View of the Title to Indiana, Samuel
Wharton, 18
View of the United States of America, Tench Coxe, 48
Vigo, Francois, 183
Villard, Henry, 309, 323
Vincennes, Ind., 112, 180, 181
Virginia, 129, 213
and the Federal City, 148
Calendar of State Papers, 14
city building in, 325
economic changes, 11
emigrants to Texas, 214
Gorham land in, 45
land fraud in, 44
land grants by, 3–5, 8
military land warrants, 32, 176, 177
pre-Revolutionary claims in Northwest Territory, 180
Virginia Military Reserve, 176, 177
Virginia Yazoo Company, 126, 129–131
Visit to North America, etc., Adlard Welby, 187, note
Wabash Land Company, 19
(see also United Illinois and Wabash Land Companies)
Wabash River, 19, 112
Waco Indians, 221
Waco, Texas, 221
Wadsworth, James, 45, 57
as Burr’s agent, 79
in the “Gore” controversy, 71
land peddling, 57, 58
Wadsworth, Jeremiah, 40
and the Bank of Hartford, 45
and the Bank of New York, 45
Genesee River land purchase, 57
Wadsworth family, as “Lords of Geneseo,” 58
Waggoner, Clark, 175, note
Walcott, Roger, 23
Walker, Dr. Thomas, 4, 13
Wallace, J. B., 79
Wall Street Journal, 346
Walpole, Thomas, 16
Walpole Grant, 16
Walsh, Thomas (see “Washington,” Thomas)
Wanborough, Ohio, 188
Ward, Andrew, 69
Ward, Samuel, 95–96
War of 1812, 77, 95
Warren County, N. Y., 25
Warville, Brissot de, 49
Washington, Augustine, 4
Washington, George, 28
attitude on “Indian Boundary,” 20
dislike of land jobbing, 11
in the Washington “boom,” 150–157
in the Yazoo land troubles, 127–132, 138
land interests, 4–12, 14
Washington, H. A., notes, 128, 207 Washington, Lawrence, 4
Washington, Lund, 9
Washington, Martha, 161
“Washington,” Thomas, 125
Washington, D. C., George Washington’s land interests in, 12
land “boom,” 147–168
land lotteries, 155–156
land speculation at founding, 37, 38
Washington County, Ga., 142, 144
“Washington’s Interest in Western Lands,” Herbert B. Adams, notes, 7, 8
Washita River, 201
Watkins, Francis, 129
Watkins, partner of Greenleaf, 37
Watson, Jacob, 26
Watson, James, 37, 40, 70
Wavell, Arthur G., 217
Wayne, James M., 205
Webster, Daniel, in land litigation, 190, 199, 205
lawyer for eastern capitalists, 280
on land grants for internal improvements, 276
on land speculation, 236–238
Webster, Pelatiah, 24
Welby, Adlard, 187
Weld, Isaac, 75, 160, 163; 76, note
Wentworth, Benning, 27
Wentworth, John, 283
Wereat, John, 132
Western Land Association, 294
Western Land Association of Minnesota, 298
Western Reserve, 45, 71, 119–123
West Florida, Spanish grants, 210
West Indies, 44
West Virginia, 17, 32
Wethersfield, Conn., 20
Weyerhaeusers, 308
Wharton, Joseph, 16
Wharton, Samuel, 16–18
Whitcomb, Henry, 324
Whitestone, L. I., N. Y., 40
Whitney, Asa, 286
Whitney, James G., 270
Whitney, Joel P., 270
Whitney, Stephen, 189
Wichita River, 201, 202
Wickwire, Ward S., 350
Wilkesbarre Gazette, 75
Wilkinson, James, 119, 127–129, 172, 196, 202, 206
in Texas, 217
William B. Ogden and the Early Days in Chicago, Isaac N. Arnold, 254, note
Williams, Samuel M., 219, 222, 228
Williamsburg, Pa., 74
Williamsburg, Va., 148
Williamson, Charles, 74–77, 79
Williamsport, Pa., 74
Willing, George M., Jr., 273
Willing, Thomas, 35
Willink, W. & J., 62, 74
Wilson, Henry, 287
Wilson, James, 20, 21, 29, 38, 60, 135, 144
military land warrant trading, 32
Wimico and St. Joseph Land Company, 332
Windham, Conn., 23
Windsor, Conn., 45
Winning of the West, The, Theodore Roosevelt, notes, 127, 146
Winter, Elisha, 204
Winterbottom, William, 49
Wirt, William, 208
Woburn, Mass., 154
Wolcott, Alexander, 71
Wolcott, Oliver, 70
Wolf, Charles J. Michael de, 88
Woodward, P. H., 123, note
Works, Hubert Howe Bancroft, notes, 264, 269
Works, Thomas Jefferson, 128; 207, note
Works, George Washington, 157, note
Works of Daniel Webster, The, notes, 236, 276
Works of Henry Clay, 238, note
Wright, John S., 283
Writings of George Washington, The, notes, 153, 154, 155
Wurtz Brothers, 79
Wyandotte Indians, 316
Wyoming (Pennsylvania country), 22
Yale College, 23, 101
Yazoo country, cession to United States, 137
South Carolina claims, 124, 125
Spanish claims, 124, 125
Yazoo Land Companies, The, Charles Homer Haskins, notes, 126, 127, 129, 130, 141
Yazoo land frauds, 124–141
Yazoo River, 125
Year’s Residence in the United States of America, A, William Cobbett, 187, note
Yerba Buena, Calif., 259, 261
Yonkers, N. Y., 328
York Lord, 19
York Pa, 20
Youghioghehy River, 5, 8
Young, John P., notes, 258, 262
Young, Notiey, 158
Yrujo, Marques de 39
Zavala Lorenzo de 223, 226
