Beginnings of the American Rectangular Land Survey System 1784 1800
Beginnings of the American Rectangular Land Survey System 1784 1800
William David Pattison
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) Earlier Jefferson had been opposed to the disposal of lands for gain. The revenue motive is contrasted with colonial tradition in Henry Tatter, "State and Federal Land Policy during the Confederation Period, " Agricultural History, IX (October, 1935), 176-186. o Grayson to Washington, New York, May [8], 1785. Regard- ing resistance In Congress to passage of the Ordinance, Grayson wrote, "Several of the States are averse to new votes from that part of the Continent and . . . Some of them are n...ow disposing of their own vacant lands, and of course wish to have their particu- lar debts and their own countries settled in the first instance before there is any interference from any other quarter. " (Ibid. ) Operating against this resistance, in addition to desire for reve- nue, were (1) demands for military bounty lands, (2) the need for frontier defense, and (3) the pressure of immigration to the West. These and other inducements to the formation of a national land policy are conveniently enumerated In Benjamin Horace Hibbard, A History of the Public La n d Policies (New York: The Macmillan Cora- pany, 1924), pp.
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