Land Purchase
The Early Land Sales database contains information about land sales of
the public domain sold within Illinois. Each purchase
entry includes the purchaser's name, purchase date, number of acres, price
per acre, numeric code indicating the county in which the land is located,
legal description (township, section, range), volume and page numbers of
original entry, and variously, the sale type, and the purchaser's sex and
residence.
1818–1900
The Illinois Statewide Marriage Index, 1763–1900, database at the online
Illinois State Archives, includes the names of the groom and bride, the
date of the marriage or issuance of the license, the name of the county
in which the marriage was performed, and a citation to the original
record.
