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Jefferson Territory

LC control no.no2020122463
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Geographic headingJefferson Territory
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Geographic subdivision usageJefferson Territory
Variant(s)J.T.
JT
Territory of Jefferson
Beginning date1859-10-24
Ending date1861-02-28
Associated countryUnited States
Found inProvisional laws and joint resolutions passed at the first and called sessions of the General Assembly of Jefferson Territory, 1860: title page (Denver, J.T.)
Wikipedia, viewed October 20, 2020 (Jefferson Territory; The Territory of Jefferson was an extralegal and unrecognized United States territory that existed from October 24, 1859 until the creation of the Colorado Territory on February 28, 1861. The Jefferson Territory included land officially part of the Kansas Territory, the Nebraska Territory, the New Mexico Territory, the Utah Territory, and the Washington Territory, but the area was remote from the governments of those five territories; 70 percent more extensive than the present state of Colorado)