Posted by Pati Blowers May on September 30, 19103 at 12:17:39:
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Samuel Bowlsby Wisconsin
80 Acres
Issue Date: 10/2/1854 Land Office:Mineral Point
Authority:April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
Document # :15275
Accession/Serial # :WI2120_.123
BLM Serial # : WI No S/N
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Aliquot Sec./Block Twp Range Frac./Sec Meridian State County
W˝SE 32/ 2-N 4-E No 4th PM - 1831 MN/WI WI Lafayette
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Transcription of the Patent :
Certificate No.15,275
The United States of America,
To all to whom these Presents shall come,Greeting:
Whereas Samuel Bowlsby of Lafayette County Wisconsin has deposited in the General Land Office of the United States, a Certificate of the Register Of The Land Office at Mineral Point whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said Samuel Bowlsby 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 West half of the South East quarter of Section thirty-two in Township two North of Range four East in District of Lands subject to sale at Mineral Point, Wisconsin containing eighty 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 Samuel Bowlsby.
Now Know Ye! That the United States of America, 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 Samuel Bowlsby and to his heirs, the said tract above 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 Samuel Bowlsby and to his heirs and assigns forever.
In Testimony Whereof, I Franklin Pierce President of the United States of America, 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 Washington, the second day of October in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four and of the Independence of the United States the Seventy ninth.
By The President: Franklin Pierce
By H.G. Baldwin, asst' sec'y
J. N. Granger Recorder of the General Land Office