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Document 4681

JOHN Q. ADAMS
Grant of land to 24-year-old future Confederate States Senator from Alabama.
Partly Printed DS: "J.Q. Adams" as sixth U.S. President, 1p, 15¾x9½. Washington, 1826 October 5. On vellum. In part: "Whereas Robert Jemison, Junior, of Tuskaloosa County has deposited in the General Land Office of the United States a certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Tuskaloosa...according to the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 24th of April 1820 entitled 'An act making further provision for the sale of the Public Lands' for the West half of the North East quarter of Section three, in township twenty four, of range two, West, in the District of Lands offered for sale at Tuskaloosa, Alabama, containing Eighty Acres and fifteen hundredths of an ac\re...." Countersigned: "Geo Graham" as Commissioner of the General Land Office. GRAHAM had been Madison and Monroe's Secretary of War ad interim from October 22, 1816 to December 9, 1817. The Land Act of April 24, 1820 abolished the credit system that enabled settlers to make deferred payment on their land and reduced the per acre purchase price from $2 to $1.25 with the entire amount to be paid at the time of purchase. The smallest purchasable unit of land was fixed at 80 acres. ROBERT JEMISON, JR. (1802-1871) became an important industrialist, businessman and political figure in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Eleven years later, he was elected to the Alabama state legislature, serving from 1837-1863. On January 11, 1861, as a delegate to the Alabama secession convention, Jemison voted against secession. Secession passed, 61-39. During the Civil War, he served as President of the State Senate (1863) and Senator from Alabama in the Confederate States Congress (1863-1865). Jemison did much toward improving the finances of his state. The construction of the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad was largely due to his efforts. At the time of his death in 1871, the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad extended from Chattanooga to a point near Tuscaloosa. Folds. Vertical fold touches the "m" in Graham's signature. Lightly shaded at folds with pinhead-size file holes touching 1 fold and some text. Nicked at bottom and top blank edges with ¼x1/8 and ¼x½-inch areas missing at upper blank margin.

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