Posted by Pati Blowers May on September 10, 19102 at 12:09:26:
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William Bowlby
Survey
State: Michigan Acres: 265.26
Title Transfer
Issue Date: 8/7/1837
Land Office: Detroit
Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
Document Nr.: 21642 Accession/Serial Nr.: MI0740__.082
Legal Land Description:
Aliquot Parts Sec./Block Twp Range Fract.Sec Meridian State Counties
W½NW 4/ 4-N 11-E Yes Michigan-Toledo Strip MI Oakland
NE 5/ 4-N 11-E Yes Michigan-Toledo Strip MI Oakland
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Transcription of the Patent :
Certificate No. 21642
The United States of America,
To all to whom these Presents shall come,Greeting:
Whereas William Bowlby of Tompkins County New York has deposited in the General Land Office of the United States, a Certificate of the Register Of The Land Office at Detroit whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said William Bowlby 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 North West fractional quarter of Section four containing eighty nine acres and twentysix hundredths of an acre, and the North East fractional quarter of Section five containing one hundred and twentysix acres in Township four North, of Range eleven East in the District of lands subject to sale in Detroit, Michigan containing in all two hundred and sixty five acres and twentysix hundredths 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 William Bowlby .
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 William Bowlby 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 William Bowlby and to his heirs and assigns forever.
In Testimony Whereof, I Martin Van Buren 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 seventh day of August
in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven and of the
Independence of the United States the Sixty ninth.
By The President: Martin Van Buren
By A. Van Buren, Sec'y
Jos. L. Wilson Acting Recorder of the General Land Office
ad interim