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Early Owners of Johnson County Land
A historical survey traces Iowa tenure from 1493 to 1803 under various rulers, then US ownership. It notes tiptoeing transfers, patent records, and a 1841 John Tyler land patent. adds details on Iowa officials, governors, judges, and territorial officers who shaped Johnson County through statehood with anecdotes from early court life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
United States
Pope Alexander Pérdnand
Isabella
Spain
John Lewis
Sebastian
Sancias Cabot
England
Plymouth Council
Sir
Henry Roswall and Co
Governor
Massachusetts Bay
Earl of Warwick
Virginia
John Worthrop
Johnson County
United States of America
John Willey
Fayette County
Indiana
United State
Dubuque
Congress
Township Seventy- Nine
John Wilsey
John Tyler
General Land Office
Washington
R. Tyler
I. Williamson
Scott Township
W. Rogers
Iowa City
Robert Lucas
John Chambers
New Jersey
Kentucky
James Clark
Pennsylvania
Territorial
James Clarke
C. H. W. Stulls
Samuel J. Buer
Jesse Williams
William L. Gilbert
Roberts M. Secrest
Morgan Reno
Joo. M. Coleman
Anson Hart
William Reynolds
Territorial Supreme Court
Charles Mason
New York
Burlington
Joseph Williams
Fort Scott
Kansas
Thoms
Wilson
Ohio
Thomas
Patterson
Chambers
Clark
Johnson ‘County
Territorial Council
State Senate
Chearla Whittlesey
Charles Whittlesey
Cedar
Serranus C
Hastings
Muscatine
Pleasant Harris
Johnson
Henry Pelkner
Samuel H. McCrory
Lowa City
Curtis Bates
William Penn Clarke
Ansel Briggs
Vermont
Omaha
Stephen Hempstead
Connecticut
James W. Grimes
New Hampshire
James D. Eads
Joseph C. Stone
State Land Office
T. S. Parvin
Supreme Court
Serranus C. Hastings
George G. Wright
Thomas §. Wilson
John F. Kinney
George Green
Jonathan C. Hall
William G. Woodward
Nortan W.tebella
Lacon D. Stockton
George S. Hampton
David C. Cloud
Samuel
A. Rice
Peserals