You can see all of these purchases at cyberdriveillinois.com and look for Illinois Public Domain Land Detail or Illinois Public Domain Land Tract Sales.
John (Sr.) 1840 40 acres
James 1848 40 acres
John (Sr.) 1852 40 acres
John (Jr.) 1852 40 acres*
John (Jr.) 1853 40 acres
Joseph (Sr.) 1865 40 acres
Joseph (Sr.) 1865 40 acres
*John (Jr.) paid a whopping $1.88 per acre in 1852. Otherwise, the purchases were all priced at $1.25 per acre. As mentioned previously, there was no price listed for John (Sr.)’s second purchase.
This sounds like a strategy. Always buying whenever they could put together enough money to buy 40 acres.
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