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The Donation Land Claim Act of 1850, sometimes known as the Donation Land Act, was a statute enacted by the United States Congress in late 1850, intended...

abandon it for more than six months at a time. The Donation Land Claim Act allowed settlers to claim land in the Oregon Territory, then including the modern...

United States Congress and was instrumental in the passage of the Donation Land Claim Act. Thurston was born in Monmouth, Maine, and grew up in Peru, Maine;...

states of Oregon and Washington has been measured following the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850. The Willamette meridian runs north–south, and the Willamette...

north) and the subsequent passage of the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850 allowed Couch to perfect the land claim in Portland he had filed on his previous...

) The treaty provided for joint control of that land for ten years. Both countries could claim land and both were guaranteed free navigation throughout...

land the City of Albina would later be built on was claimed by J.L. Losing and Joseph Delay under the U.S. Donation Land Claim Act of 1850. The land was...

later, Meeker moved to north Puyallup, Washington, but he sold his Donation Land Claim to a Mr. John Davenport, who, with a few others, permanently settled...

conquests again encouraged mass immigration. Legislation like the Donation Land Claim Act and significant events like the California Gold Rush further...

by the Treaty of 1818 without recognizing indigenous claims to the area, consisted of the land north of 42° N latitude, south of 54°40′ N latitude, and...

Keizur, one of its first settlers. Somewhere in the translation of donation land claim records, his name was misspelled. The settlement suffered in the...

The community is named for Ewell P. Brinnon, who in 1860 took a donation land claim at the mouth of the Duckabush River. Its known landmarks include...

in 1843, it was the basis for the later Donation Land Claim Act. The Provisional Government allowed one land patent per male settler, and required "permanent...

Territory in 1848. Congress passed the Donation Land Claim Act in 1850 and many earlier land claims became donation land claims. Eli C. Cooley, Bradford S. Bonney...

Christian and Matilda Deardorff after receiving 640 acres from The Donation Land Claim Act of 1850 in Clackamas County between a cinder cone volcano later...

south Plains for $1,000. He used it to create a 640-acre (2.6 km2) donation land claim; the US patent was granted in 1874. Gearhart increased his holdings...

Unusually for its time, under the 1850 Donation Land Claim Act, "half-breed Indians" were eligible for land grants in the Oregon Territory, as were married...

to Oregon in 1877. His mother was a native of Oregon, born on a donation land claim in Yamhill County, Oregon, in 1872. While teaching Mr. and Mrs. Jackson...

American farmer who had moved onto San Juan Island claiming rights to live there under the Donation Land Claim Act, found a pig rooting in his garden and eating...

were eventually honored by the United States in the Donation Land Act of 1850. The Donation Land Act provided for married settlers to be granted 320 acres...