J. WILLIAM TRYGG:

An Inventory of His Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society

Manuscripts Collection

OVERVIEW


	Creator:	Trygg, J. William, creator.
	Title:	J. William Trygg papers.
	Dates:	[195-]-[196-].
	Abstract:	Legal and background papers related to the work of an appraiser for the Indian Claims Commission. The papers are largely organized by docket and Royce designation and include tree tally sheets, land sale information, documentation of terrain, abstracts from U.S. Land Surveyors' Field Notes, printed reports, and court exhibits. Some of the reference material is for earlier time periods.
	Quantity:	25.0 cubic feet (25 boxes).
	Location:	See Detailed Description section for shelf locations.

J. William Trygg was born September 17, 1905, at Cook Minnesota. He was a professional forester and worked for the United States Forest Service (USFS) from 1926 until 1954. He was in charge of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps in the Ely, Minnesota area, and at the time of his retirement from the USFS was a district forest ranger. In addition to his expertise in forestry he had experience with Indian claims throughout the Great Lakes region.

After leaving the Forest Service Trygg worked as a land use consultant and as an apprasier of natural resources. Through an intense interest in the history of the area he developed a system he used to make historical appraisals on behalf of various Indian tribes in the Midwest, appraisals for Indian lands already ceded to the United States. With his son he owned the Trygg Land Office, a real estate agency located at Ely. Trygg was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1966 from District 62 (St. Louis County) and served one term.

Trygg died in Washington, D.C. on April 11, 1971, where he was testifying on Indian land claims. He was buried in the Ely Cemetery.

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ARRANGEMENT

The collection has not received detailed processing and is arranged into three groups, by the order in which the respective boxes were received. Boxes in each accesson are separately numbered. Files are primarily identified by docket and Royce designation. Information related to any particular claim or land parcel may appear scattered throughtout the collection.


		Accession 12,617 - Part 1
		Accession 12,617 - Part 2
		Accession 13,597

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ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION

Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. J. William Trygg Papers. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: 12,617; 13,597

Processing Information:

Processed by: Bonnie B. Palmquist, September 1982

Catalog ID number: 990017351190104294

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DETAILED DESCRIPTION

ACCESSION 12, 617 - PART 1

Location

Box

152.B.17.13B

Docket 18 E (Red Lake Band v. United States) and Docket 58 (Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan v. United States).

Plaintiff's exhibits. Michigan land sales, reference material, timber resources, township descriptions, pine counts, and miscellaneous information.

Location

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152.B.17.14F

Plaintiff's exhibits (J. William Trygg's set).

Location

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152.B.17.15B

Plaintiff's exhibits.

Location

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152.B.17.16F

Dockets 243, 244, 245 (Winnebago Indians v. United States): Michigan land sales.

Location

Box

152.B.18.1B

Dockets 18 C, S, T (Chippewa Indians of Michigan): Timber volume data sheets, Royce Area 242.

Docket 18 U (Chippewa Indians of Lake Superior): Private land sales, Cook County, Royce Area 698.

Location

Box

152.B.18.2F

Docket 18 U:

Private land sales, Lake County, Minnesota.

Plaintiff's exhibits.

Location

Box

152.B.18.3B

Docket 18 S (Chippewa, Lake Superior and Mississippi Band): Royce Area 242.

Docket 189 B: Red Lake Indians.

Location

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152.B.18.4F

Dockets 18 B and 189 B.

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152.B.18.5B

Docket 189 B:

Reference material.

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152.B.18.6F

Docket 189 B: Reference material.

Docket 75: New York emigrant Indians in Wisconsin.

Location

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152.B.18.7B

Dockets 18 B and 189 B: Tree tally sheets (Minnesota), reference material.

Location

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152.B.18.8F

Tree tally sheets: Michigan and Wisconsin. Royce Area 111, 261.

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152.B.18.9B

Docket 57 (Saginaw Chippewa Indians of Michigan): Maps.

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152.B.18.10F

Dockets 243, 244, 245: Plaintiff exhibits.

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152.B.18.11B

Docket 243, Royce Area 267: Background material.

Location

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152.B.18.12F

Docket 50233 (Flathead Indians of Montana):

Plaintiff's exhibits.

Location

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152.B.18.13B

Reference and areial photographs.

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ACCESSION 12, 617 - PART 2

Location

Box

152.B.18.14F

Valuation study of Area ceded by Omaha tribe of Indians, April 17, 1854 (Royce cession 315).

Docket 18 S, Royce Area 242 and adjacent areas. Abstracts from first U.S. land surveyors field notes, Chippewa Indians claim.

Finley, Robert W.: The Original Vegetation Cover of Wisconsin (copy of a thesis), 1951.

Docket 18 A: Plaintiffs' proposed findings of fact on the issue of valuation: Vols. III and IV.

Case No. 18: Vol. III.

Royce Area III (west).

Petition of Pillager Bands of Chippewa Indians v. United States.

Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management Survey, Michigan (copy).

United States Indian Claims Commission: Final report.

Location

Box

152.B.18.15B

Docket 18. Vol. II, Dockets 436-482.

Docket 18 B and 18 N: Dispositions.

Docket 18 U: Plaintiffs' proposed findings on value and Docket 18 C: Finding of value with respect to agricultural lands.

Docket 18 T:

Plaintiffs' proposed finding on value and consideration and brief in support.

Defendants' requested finding of fact, Objections to petitioners proposed findings of fact and Brief on issue of value.

Appraisal of Chippewa tracts in the State of Minnesota as of April 3 and 7, 1848.

Docket 18E and 58: Plaintiffs' proposed findings.

Docket 18 C:

Roth, Filbert: Map and Report of the Forestry Conditions of Northern Wisconsin.

Defendants' requested findings of fact, Objections to plaintiffs' proposed finding of fact and brief on value.

Original land surveryors' notes. 3 volumes.

Land and water.

Docket 18 C and 18 T:

Appraisal report by J. William Trygg.

Valuation report on Royce Area 242 (and 220) as of July 15, 1838 and Royce Area 268 as of April 2, 1848.

Docket Nos. 146 and 15 M: Petitioners proposed findings and brief.

Docket Nos. 13 M, 40 K, and 18 Q: Petitioners proposed findings and brief.

Docket Nos. 142, 359-363, 332 A: Proposed findings of fact and brief (Vol. II).

Docket Nos. 142, 359-362: Plaintiff's exhibit.

Docket 359: Appraisal of Sioux Cession in Iowa and Minnesota, Royce Area 153, 1831, William G. Murray.

Excerpts from Report of a Geological Survery (1852) by David Dale Owens.

Carlton County township plats.

Good, G. H.: Pioneer Logging: Swallow and Hopkins Lumber Company.

Doty, James Duane: Excerpts of diary of trip through Lake Superior region in 1821.

Wisconsin Then and Now, June 1959-July 1963.

Abstracts from first United States land surveyors field notes for Michigan.

Land and timber information.

Location

Box

152.18.16F

Excerpts from Report in the Matter of the Investigation of the White Earth Reservation, Volumes I and II.

Appraisal of Royce Area 242 in Wisconsin and Minnesota (1838).

Docket 184: 100 Years of American Commerce (1795-1985) by Chauncey Depew.

Original Land Surveyors General descriptions (Michigan) (Royce 205) (photocopies).

Field notes of township 149 North, Range 36 West of 5th meridian, 1890-1891. 2 volumes.

General description and other comments, Royce Area 706 and 707.

Docket 18 A: Plaintiffs' proposed findings of fact on the issue of title. 3 volumes.

Docket 18 E and Docket 58: List and digest of plaintiff exhibits in valuation phase.

Docket 18 B and 18 N: Plaintiffs' proposed findings of fact on issue of liability and value (Volume I).

Docket 18 C: American Woods Series.

Appraisal of the former Malheur Reservation, Eastern Oregon (1879): Volume I.

Docket 47900:

The Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska v. United States: Plaintiffs' brief.

Appraisal of Timberlands of Tlingit and Haita Territory in southeast Alaska.

Consolidated dockets.

Land sales: Michigan.

Docket Nos. 243, 244, 245: Defendants' exhibit No. 169.

Instructions to Land Surveyors.

Includes detailed instructions on what information was to be entered in field notes.

Location

Box

152.B.19.1B

Docket 47900:

Tlingit and Haida Indians of Alaska, Valuation of land: Volume I.

Plaintiffs' exception to the report of the commissioner.

Docket 18 N: Report on land, swamp and lake area.

Docket 18 B and 18 N:

Brief in support of plaintiffs' proposed findings of fact.

Plaintiffs' objection to defendants' proposed findings of fact.

Plaintiffs' proposed findings of fact on issue of liability and value: Volumes I and II.

Docket 18 D:

Appraisal report of Royce Area 482.

Plaintiff exhibit Nos. V 86-91, 101, 124, 145.

Plaintiff exhibit No. V 48.

Docket 18 E and 58:

Plaintiff exhibit No. 558.

Plaintiff exhibit No. 824.

Plaintiff's proposed findings.

Docket 18 C:

Original land surveyors notes: Book A.

Plaintiff exhibit No. T 6 - T 10.

Plaintiff's proposed finding on value consideration and entities and brief: Volumes I and II.

Docket 18 S: Abstracts from United States land surveyors field notes: Royce Area 242.

Docket Nos. 142, 359-362:

Plaintiff exhibit No. 606.

Plaintiff exhibit No. 608.

Docket Nos. 146, 15 M, 40 K: Digest of defendants' exhibits.

Docket 189 B: Land and timber disposals by U.S.A.

Royce Area 269: Pine volume estimate.

Unidentified report concerning Red River Reservation.

Docket 40 K, 29 K, 15 M, 146: Valuation study areas.

Location

Box

152.B.19.2F

Docket Nos. 40 K, 146, 15 M, 29 K: Public and private land sales. 8 folders.

Docket 146, 15 M, 40 K: Public land sales.

Docket 18 D: Abstracts from United States land surveyor original field notes.

Docket 18 T: Plaintiff exhibit No. T 5: Volume II.

Wisconsin pine count.

Miscellaneous material relating to various dockets.

Docket 18 E and 58: Defendants' requested findings of fact: Volume I.

Tree tally sheets. 6 inches.

Location

Box

152.B.19.3B

The American Settlers Guide, 1880.

Abstracts from original U.S. land surveryors' field notes in Minnesota: Royce Area 482-484, 332, 357.

Docket 18 B: List of plaintiffs' exhibits nos.

Appraisal process (11 typewritten pages).

Location

Box

144.C.10.3B

Docket 502-533: Township plats and field note data (Montana).

Docket 18 B and 18 N: Appendix C to defendant's brief.

Tract book of sales of Chippewa pine lands, 1896-1900.

Everett, Franklin: Memorials of the Grand River Valley, 1878.

Microphotographs of Michigan-Indiana General Land Office plats: Royce 117. 2 volumes.

Township field notes: Michigan. 5 volumes.

Township field notes: Michigan, Royce Area 205.

Docket 18 E-58:

Land office reports, 1843-1873. 2 volumes.

The Wisconsin Lumberman: Volume II.

Knuth, Dr. Helen E.: Economic and Historical Background of Northeastern Minnesota Lands, Royce Area 332 for valuation as of January 10, 1855. Indian Claims Commission Docket 18 U, 1966.

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ACCESSION 13,597

Location

Box

144.A.1.1B

Royce Area 243. Sioux Indian claims. Abstracts from U.S. land surveyors field notes. Minnesota and Wisconsin, west of 4th P.M.

Royce Area 289. Abstracts from U.S. Land surveyors field notes. Minnesota and Wisconsin, west of 5th P.M.

Treaties of Cession, Act of February 16, 1863. Sioux Docket 142, 359-363. Plaintiff's exhibit 611.

Royce Area 706, 707. Sioux Docket 189 B: Plaintiff exhibit V-21. General description and other comments. Abstracts from U.S. land surveryors' original field notes in northwestern Minnesota.

Miscellaneous material relating to Royce areas. 3 folders.

Includes correspondence, lists of unsold pine lands, etc.

Composite map of U.S. land surveryors' original plats and field notes, 1967.

Properties for sale by Trygg Land Office, September 20, 1966.

Pioneer Lumbering, Winton, Minnesota, (1892-1922).

J. William Trygg Historical Collections.

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CATALOG HEADINGS

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:: Dakota Indians -- Claims.; Forests and forestry -- United States -- Mensuration.; Indian land transfers -- United States.; Indians of North America -- Claims.; Indians of North America -- Land tenure.; Ojibwa Indians -- Claims.; Real property -- Valuation -- Minnesota.; Timber -- Minnesota.

Places:: Michigan -- Surveys.; Minnesota -- Surveys.; Wisconsin -- Surveys.

Organizations:: United States. Indian Claims Commission.

Occupations:: Real estate appraisers.

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