Land Patent, 7 September 1838–C
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Source Note
United States General Land Office, Washington DC, Land Patent, for JS, 7 Sept. 1838. Version copied [ca. 7 Sept. 1838] in General Land Office Records, Missouri Land Patents, vol. 20 (now vol. 122), p. 155; printed form with manuscript additions in unidentified handwriting; National Archives and Records Administration, Kansas City, MO. Transcription from a digital color image obtained from the website of the Bureau of Land Management’s General Land Office Records in 2019.
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Historical Introduction
See Historical Introduction to Land Patent, 7 Sept. 1838–B.
Page 155
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
CERTIFICATE)
No. 8667)
To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting: WHEREAS Joseph Smith, Junior, of , 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, Junior, 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 East half of the North East quarter of Section two, in Township fifty six, of Range twenty nine, in the District of Lands subject to sale at , Missouri, containing seventy three acres and seventy hundreths of an acre,
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, Junior,
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, Junior, and to his heirs, the said track above described: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same, together with all the rights, privileges, immunities, and appurtenances of whatsover nature, thereunto belonging, unto the said Joseph Smith, Junior, 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 , the seventh day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight and of the INDEPENDENCE OF THE the Sixty third
L.S.
BY THE PRESIDENT:
By Martin van Buren Jr Sec’y.
Jos S. Wilson Acting Recorder of the General Land Office. ad interim
Certified Copy Sent to Clk Ct. July 7, 1855 [p. 155]
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Footnotes
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TEXT: “L.S.” enclosed in a printed representation of a seal.
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Notation written in left margin in unidentified handwriting.
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