Receiver’s Office, Receipt, 22 June 1836–B

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Receiver’s Office, Receipt, to JS, Lexington, Lafayette Co., MO, 22 June 1836; printed form with manuscript additions in the handwriting of E. M. Ryland; signature and endorsement in handwriting of E. M. Ryland; Land Entry Case File 7874; Record Group 49, Records of the Bureau of Land Management, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington DC.

One leaf, measuring 4½ × 7¾ inches (11 × 20 cm). The document appears to have been cut out of an unknown ledger, with the left and bottom sides of the recto unevenly cut. The document was folded once at the bottom third of the leaf. Two diagonal cuts in the shape of an “X” were made through the signature of E. M. Ryland.

This document and a register’s office certificate were sent together to the General Land Office in
Washington DC
Created as district for seat of U.S. federal government by act of Congress, 1790, and named Washington DC, 1791. Named in honor of George Washington. Headquarters of executive, legislative, and judicial branches of U.S. government relocated to Washington ...
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for approval, then returned to the Land Office in
Lexington
Located on high bluffs on southeast bank of Missouri River, about forty miles east of Independence. Area settled, 1817. Selected as county seat, by 1823. City charter obtained, 1845. Population in 1840 about 2,400. Commercial, steamboat, ferrying, and outfitting...
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, Missouri, and filed there. Records from the Lexington Land Office were relocated to the Bureau of Land Management when the Lexington Land Office closed in 1922. By 1953 the land records held by the Bureau of Land Management had been transferred to the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington DC.

See also Certificate for Land Patent, 22 June 1836–B.
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Manuscript additions in handwriting of E. M. Ryland.
7874

LAND OFFICE,
Lexington
Located on high bluffs on southeast bank of Missouri River, about forty miles east of Independence. Area settled, 1817. Selected as county seat, by 1823. City charter obtained, 1845. Population in 1840 about 2,400. Commercial, steamboat, ferrying, and outfitting...
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, Missouri.

RECEIVER’S OFFICE, June 22nd 1836.

RECEIVED from Joseph Smith Jr. of [blank] county
Ohio
French explored and claimed area, 1669. British took possession following French and Indian War, 1763. Ceded to U.S., 1783. First permanent white settlement established, 1788. Northeastern portion maintained as part of Connecticut, 1786, and called Connecticut...
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the sum of Ninety eight & ²⁰/₁₀₀ dollars, being in full for W[est] 1/2 of the s.E. [southeast] 1/4 of section no Twenty two township No. Fifty six ([blank]) north of the base line and west of the fifth principal meridian, range No. Twenty nine containing seventy eight & 56/100 acres, at the rate of $ 125 per acre.

$ 98.20

E M Ryland Receiver. [p. [1]]
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