Scope and Content: Under successive authorizations, the Committee for the Sale of Eastern Lands (1783-1801) and the Land Office were the agencies with responsibility for the management and sale of public lands in the District of Maine, and after its separation as a state in 1819 until 1861.  From 1817 the Land Office was administered by three commissioners (Resolves 1815, c 131 (1816)), succeeded in 1820 by their clerk, George W. Coffin (Resolves 1820, c 24), who served as land agent until 1851.  Series was created to document and administer the various responsibilities of the commissioners/land agent.
Arrangement: In three subseries: (1) Copy book/journal, 1817-1825  (2) Letterbook, 1817-1834  (3) Travel journals, 1825-1845; Arranged within each subseries chronologically
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