[or-roots] First's in DLC

[Denise Sproed]

Folks could have meant they were "first" in the sense of marking out the 
DLC, not necessarily in filing it at the land office.  I believe they marked 
out the claims and improved them long before filing the paperwork.  It's 
been awhile since I read up on the process.  I also believe there were at 
least two land office's (Roseburg and Portland - maybe more).

A book I really enjoyed about early land laws (in story format) was "Nimrod: 
Courts, Claims, And Killing On The Oregon Frontier" by Ronald B. Lansing 
published in 2005 by Washington State Press".

Denise
Descendant of AGEE, ATTERBURY, GAGE, GILLIAM, KENT, LIVINGSTON, SHAFF, and 
more amongst the Early Oregon Settlers
A member of the Association of Professional Genealogists

The web page I made for my parents is at: 
http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~merritt/

My genealogy related pages are at:
http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~merritt/
and http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~merritt/
The latter created using John Cardinal's Second Site

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