Elisha Baker — Sources - Familytree-search.org

All sources cited across both claim records, grouped by tract.

Bellevue Settlement (Survey No. 2150)

American State Papers, Public Lands, Vol. II, p. 441 (Baker's own claim register entry — survey, permission, Crow's testimony, 1810 rejection; also gives the 27 Feb 1806 recording date)
Annotation ("Rejected") on the original survey plat
American State Papers, Public Lands, Vol. II, p. 424 (John Cooper's claim; Baker's testimony, 27 June 1806; claim rejected 24 April 1810)
Confirmations of Land Claims in Missouri, by the Act of 29th April 1816 — Settlement Rights, per Recorder Bates' Report of 2 February 1816
Act of Congress, 29 April 1816
Indenture, Elisha Baker & Polly to John Hutchings, 5 May 1816, Washington County, Territory of Missouri
Confirmation record, "Execution of survey" date, June 1817
Confirmation record, "Return to recorder" date, 23 October 1825
1849 deed, John Hutchings Sr. to John Hutchings Jr., referencing the patent; land office correspondence of 27 March 1829
Land office transmittal letter, 27 March 1829
Township survey, Thomas Baker, Survey No. 3321 (related family record, adjoining tract)

Little Rock Creek (Survey No. 2021)

American State Papers, Public Lands, Vol. III, p. 307 (Register of Claims entry)
Elisha Baker's Bellevue land claim, District of Ste. Genevieve, 1806 survey caption and 1806 Board testimony (cited for comparison)
Walter Crow's sworn testimony, 1806 Bellevue land claim record
Elisha Baker to Jeduthan Kendall, quitclaim deed, 1 May 1812 (recorded 25 June 1825)
Rejected-claims compilation, "Public Records 1815–1824, Claims in Louisiana and Missouri"
Frederick Bates supplementary report, 16 July 1818
Notice of claim, William Ruppell, agent; confirmation record citing the Act of Congress of 29 April 1816
Jeduthan Kendall & Margaret Kendall to Benjamin Johnston Jr., quitclaim deed, 7 August 1820, Jefferson County
Estate of Austin Byrd, deceased — petition for sale of real estate, Jefferson County Court, Hillsboro
Eliza Horne et al. v. John Byrd, Jacob Byrd, et al., Jefferson County Circuit Court, notice dated Thursday, 5 December 1850
Benjamin Johnston to George Engelman, deed, 1 May 1854, Jefferson County
Surveyor General's certificate of retracement, Survey No. 2021, January 1863

Related family records

Related record — not part of either claim. An Elijah Baker — relationship to Elisha not yet confirmed — turns up as a sworn witness in a neighbor's land claim: that of David Fine, on the river Mathias, district of St. Louis. Testifying around 6 May 1807, Elijah says he arrived in the country with Fine in April 1802 — the same year Elisha's own Little Rock Creek occupancy is said to begin — and describes seeing Fine on his tract, with a crop growing, through 1803. The relationship is still being worked out: Elijah having known Fine for "about twenty-six years" by 1807 points to a man of some age already by 1802, which may fit a brother of Elisha's better than a son. It's not evidence for either of Elisha's own claims, but it's an independent, dated data point worth tracking down further before it's placed on the family tree. American State Papers, Public Lands, Vol. II, p. 544 (David Fine's claim; witnesses William James, Elijah Baker, Philip Fine, and John Romine; claim rejected 20 August 1811).

American State Papers, Public Lands, Vol. II, p. 544 (David Fine's claim; Elijah Baker's testimony, c. 6 May 1807)

Compiled from two documentary timelines: Elisha_Baker_Bellevue_Land_Timeline.docx and Elisha_Baker_Little_Rock_Creek_Timeline.docx, plus supplementary American State Papers register entries added since.