Posted by Pati Blowers May on September 11, 19102 at 00:03:41:
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.
ABRAM BOWLSBY
Survey
State: Michigan Acres: 80
Title Transfer
Issue Date: 9/01/1866
Land Office: Ionia
Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
Document Nr.: 18805 Accession/Serial Nr.: MI2890__.222
Legal Land Description:
Aliquot Parts Sec./Block Twp Range Meridian State Counties
W½SW 23/ 12-N 16-W Michigan-Toledo Strip MI Muskegon
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Transcription of the Patent :
Certificate No. 18805
The United States of America,
To all to whom these Presents shall come,Greeting:
Whereas Abram Bowlsby of Muskegon County Michigan has deposited in the General Land Office of the United States, a Certificate of the Register Of The Land Office at Ionia whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said Abram 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 twelve North, of Range sixteen West in the District of lands subject to sale at Ionia, Michigan
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 Abram 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 Abram 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 Abram Bowlsby and to his heirs and assigns forever.
In Testimony Whereof, I Andrew Johnson 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 first day of September
in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six and of the
Independence of the United States the ninety first.
By The President: Andrew Johnson
By Edw. D. Null, Sec'y
J. N. Granger Recorder of the General Land Office