Scope and Content: Under successive authorizations, the Land Office oversaw the management and sale of public lands in Maine for the Commonwealth during the first half of the 19th century.  As a part of this function, the office administered and recorded the settlement of disputed claims.  This series consists of a report made by George Herbert, an agent appointed by the governor in 1815 to investigate the disposition of a tract of public lands in Maine mortgaged by the late Leonard Jarvis earlier in the century.  Since then settlers had occupied lots in this tract, resulting in a variety of claims.
Notes: The location of the report in the Land Office was the result of Resolves 1818, c 258
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