1851 FORT GAINES https://books.google.com/books?id=Hi9YAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR165&lpg=PR165&dq=totten+%22dauphin+island%22+fortification+title+1851&source=bl&ots=Y8xZWJt5X0&sig=TMJLIId1XeMPU8yCZcHuhI4h-M8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAwOXQlYDQAhVH0oMKHUTPAdsQ6AEIKTAD#v=onepage&q&f=false
WEST FLORIDA ARCHITECTURE (PENSACOLA) http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00099623/00001/14j
NATIONAL REGISTER NOMINATION FOR FT. GAINES 1976 http://focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/76000348.pdf
GREAT AMERICAN LAND BUBBLE
General James Wilkinson's name, curiously, "is not conspicuous among the Spanish land grant claimants. Wilkinson, we have already seen, had been concerned in western land deals. His integrity has been a mooted question among historians-and the fact that he was in command of American troops in Louisiana, and, together with Governor Wm. C. C. Claiborne, received the surrender of the province from the French Government, would have given him the opportunity of engrossing lands. Yet, as pointed out by his great-grandson, "one of the strongest proofs of the integrity of Wilkinson is the fact that the eight volumes of American State Papers, which contain all the Spanish land grants, and include hundreds of American settlers, do not show one grant in Wilkinson's favor ... Wilkinson never got enough land from the Spaniards to serve him as a grave."s Yet, as admitted by the ardent defender of his ancestor, one entry among the Spanish land grant claims in Louisiana shows that General James Wilkinson bought on May 12, 1816, from Moreau, the original grantee, Dauphin Island at the mouth of Mobile Bay. The American commissioners, on the application of Wilkinson's heirs, refused to confirm the grant because he "was not allowed to hold land under Spain, not being a Spanish subject." The ousting of squatters was a most difficult task for the national government. Many Americans, prior to the Louisiana cession, had emigrated into the Spanish domains and had taken up lands merely on the verbal permission of the Spanish officials.
WEST FLORIDA ARCHITECTURE (PENSACOLA) http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00099623/00001/14j
NATIONAL REGISTER NOMINATION FOR FT. GAINES 1976 http://focus.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/76000348.pdf
GREAT AMERICAN LAND BUBBLE
General James Wilkinson's name, curiously, "is not conspicuous among the Spanish land grant claimants. Wilkinson, we have already seen, had been concerned in western land deals. His integrity has been a mooted question among historians-and the fact that he was in command of American troops in Louisiana, and, together with Governor Wm. C. C. Claiborne, received the surrender of the province from the French Government, would have given him the opportunity of engrossing lands. Yet, as pointed out by his great-grandson, "one of the strongest proofs of the integrity of Wilkinson is the fact that the eight volumes of American State Papers, which contain all the Spanish land grants, and include hundreds of American settlers, do not show one grant in Wilkinson's favor ... Wilkinson never got enough land from the Spaniards to serve him as a grave."s Yet, as admitted by the ardent defender of his ancestor, one entry among the Spanish land grant claims in Louisiana shows that General James Wilkinson bought on May 12, 1816, from Moreau, the original grantee, Dauphin Island at the mouth of Mobile Bay. The American commissioners, on the application of Wilkinson's heirs, refused to confirm the grant because he "was not allowed to hold land under Spain, not being a Spanish subject." The ousting of squatters was a most difficult task for the national government. Many Americans, prior to the Louisiana cession, had emigrated into the Spanish domains and had taken up lands merely on the verbal permission of the Spanish officials.
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