Land Patent, 10 July 1844
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United States General Land Office, , Land Patent, for JS, 10 July 1844; Land Entry Case File 16591, in Illinois Tract Book, vol. 416, p. 55; printed form with manuscript additions in unidentified handwriting; Eastern State Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM-ESO), Springfield, VA.
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Land Patent, 10 July 1844
Land Patent, 10 July 1844, as Recorded in Hancock County Deeds
Page 55
CERTIFICATE)
No. 16591)
THE , To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:
WHEREAS Joseph Smith, of , Illinois, has deposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE of the , a Certificate of the REGISTER OF THE LAND OFFICE at whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said Joseph Smith according to the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 24th of April, 1820, entitled “An Act making further provision for the sale of the Public Lands,” for the South East quarter of Section twenty five, in Township seven North, of Range eight West in the District of lands subject to sale at , Illinois, containing one hundred and Sixty acres
according to the official plat of the survey of the said Lands, returned to the General Land Office by the SURVEYOR GENERAL, which said tract has been purchased by the said Joseph Smith
NOW KNOW YE, That the , in consideration of the Premises, and in conformity with the several acts of Congress, in such case made and provided, HAVE GIVEN AND GRANTED, and by these presents DO GIVE AND GRANT, unto the said Joseph Smith and to his heirs, the said tract here described: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same, together with all the rights, privileges, immunities, and appurtenances of whatsoever nature, thereunto belonging, unto the said Joseph Smith and to his heirs and assigns forever.
In Testimony Whereof, I, , PRESIDENT OF THE , have caused these Letters to be made PATENT, and the SEAL of the GENERAL LAND OFFICE to be hereunto affixed.
GIVEN under my hand, at the CITY OF , the tenth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Forty four and of the INDEPENDENCE OF THE the Sixty ninth.
BY THE PRESIDENT,
By John Tyler Jr. Sec’y.
J. Williamson, Recorder of the General Land Office.
R M Whitney Signed by Recorder 10 Dec 1844— [p. 55]
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