Posted by Pati Blowers May on September 06, 19102 at 21:33:50:
This Land Patent information is from the Bureau of Land Management at www.glorecords.blm.gov/ . A scan of this image may be seen there as well as an order form for a certified copy if you wish to obtain one.
LEVI BOWLSBY
Survey State: INDIANA Acres: 80
Title Transfer
Issue Date: 11/15/1830
Land Office: Indianapolis
Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
Document Nr.: 10377
Accession/Serial Nr.: IN0550__.083
Legal Land Description:
AliquotParts Sec./Block Twp. Range Meridian
W½SW 23/ 20-N 11-E 2nd PM
State Counties
IN Delaware
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Certificate No. 10,377
The United States of America,
To all to whom these Presents shall come,Greeting:
Whereas Levi Bowlsby of Delaware County Indiana has deposited in the General Land Office of the United States, a Certificate of the Register Of The Land Office at Indianapolis whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said Levi 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 West quarter of Section twenty three in Township twenty, of Range eleven in District of Lands offered for sale at Indianapolis Indiana 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 Levi 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 Levi 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 Levi Bowlsby and to his heirs and assigns forever.
In Testimony Whereof, I Andrew Jackson 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 fifteenth day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty and of the Independence of the United States the Fifty fifth.
By The President: Andrew Jackson
(illegible signature) Commissioner of the General Land Office