Certificate for Land Patent, 8 September 1836
Certificate for Land Patent, 8 September 1836
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Register’s Office, Certificate, to JS, Lexington, Lafayette Co., MO, 8 Sept. 1836; printed form with manuscript additions in unidentified handwriting; signature of Finis Ewing; Land Entry Case File 8667, Record Group 49, Records of the Bureau of Land Management, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington DC. Includes docket.
Historical Introduction
Historical Introduction
See Historical Introduction to Certificate for Land Patent, 22 June 1836–B.
No. 8667
LAND OFFICE, At , Missouri.
REGISTER’S OFFICE September 8th 1836.
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED, that in pursuance of law, Joseph Smith Jr of county [blank] has this day purchased of the Register of this office, the East half of Northeast quarter of section No, two of township No. Fifty six ([blank]) of range No. Twenty nine. containing Seventy three & 70/100 acres, at the rate of $1 25 cents per acre, amounting in the whole to $ 92 13 for which the said Joseph Smith Jr has made payment in full agreeably to law.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT KNOWN, that on presentation of this certificate to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, the said Joseph Smith Jr shall be entitled to receive a patent for the land above described.
Finis Ewing Register. [p. [1]]
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Manuscript additions in unidentified handwriting.
Signature of Finis Ewing.
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