LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

No.

Plates, Chart, and Figures

Page

United States Public Lands and Meridians

 Frontispiece

1

Central Section of United States in 1850

3

A

(Chart) Ohio relief map showing main subdivisions

9

2

Virginia Military District

13

3

Eastern state Land Claims in the West in 1783

17

4

Western Scioto and Pike Counties in 1838

21

5

Virginia Military Survey No. 12566

25

6

Examples of Surveys in Virginia Military

29

7

Virginia Military Survey No. 15890

33

1

(Fig.) Bearing-tree block showing old mark

35

2

(Fig.) Side view of same block

35

8

Old Seven Ranges

39

9

Kimberly Grant in Old Seven Ranges

47

10

Ohio Company Purchase

53

11

River lots in York and Dover Townships

57

12

Donation Tract in Ohio Company lands

61

13

French Grants on the Ohio river

65

14

District between the Miami rivers

71

15

Fort Washington tract at Cincinnati

75

16

Connecticut Western Reserve

81

17

Examples of Reserve township subdivisions

85

18

Tallmadge Township near Akron

86

19

United States Military District

91

20

Town 10, Range 2, U.S. Military District

95

21

Schoenbrunn Tract in Tuscarawas County

96

22

Gnadenhutten Tract in Tuscarawas County

99

23

Salem Tract in Tuscarawas County

100

24

Gnadenhutten town plat of 1824

103

3

(Fig.) Putnam's 1804 map of Ohio

109

4

(Fig.) Section numbering in 1785 and 1796

111

25

Congress Lands East of Scioto River

113

26

Ebenezer Zane Tracts

117

27

Congress Lands West of the Great Miami

121

28

Pennsylvanian Line -- Ohio River townships

125

29

Northwestern Ohio reservations

Insert at 132

30

First Principal Meridian "North and East"

135

5

(Fig.) Miami Indian and Shane Grants

138

31

First Principal Meridian "South and East"

139

6

(Fig.) Indian Grants at mouth of Maumee

145

32

Upper Sandusky town plat of 1843

Insert at 146

7

(Fig.) Twelve-Mile Square Reservation

147

8

(Fig.) Perrysburg environs

149

33

Perrysburg town plat of 1816

151

34

Croghanville town plat of 1817

152

35

Two-Mile Square Reservation

155

36

Rectangular System 24-mile tracts

205

37

Townships of Rectangular System

206

38

Division into Sections, Rectangular System

209

39

Erroneously sectioned township in Missouri

210

40

Bennington township in southwestern Vermont

217

9

(Fig.) Early Roman surveying instrument

223