Some of the purchases plotted here were more or less than 40 acre increments, so this diagram should not be interpreted as a precise representation.  Instead, it offers a general idea of where people were located in relationship to each other.

In the government offices where land purchases were recorded and patents (certificates of ownership) were issued, patents were often issued many months after the purchaser had already taken possession of the land, due to the volume of purchases the besieged land offices had to process.  Researcher Helen Vargas shared the information that in some cases the delayed transference of ownership was because the purchaser bought the land in installments.

A third scenario was the circumstance of preemption: the purchaser had settled on the land prior to the time when the government offered it for sale, and was given the first option to buy it - a form of squatter's rights, so to speak.

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ca. 1830 Jabez Beebe, 320 acres

1840 Abraham Lincoln, 93.8 acres

1840 William Duff, 80 acres

1840 John Day, 80 acres

1840 Ivo Hardy, 120 acres total

1840 Jared Prentiss

1840 John Roberts, 80 acres

1840 Jary White, 200 acres

1840 Jesse Hadley, 40 acres

1840 David Allton, 160 acres

1840 John M. Roberts, 40 acres

1840 Elisha H. Beckwith, 40 acres

1840 Jesse Hadley, 40 acres

1840 John Roberts, 40 acres

1840 Jabez Beebe, 280 acres

1840 James E. Roberts, 40 acres

1852 Nathan Allton, 40 acres

1854 Thomas Callihan, abt. 40 acres