Posted by Pati Blowers May on September 15, 19102 at 22:23:44:
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.
John N. Bowlsby
Survey State: Missouri Acres: 40
Title Transfer
Issue Date: 11/1/1856
Land Office: Palmyra
Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
Document Nr.: 32856
Accession/Serial Nr.: MO2580__.097
Legal Land Description:
AliquotParts Sec./Block Twp. Range Meridian State Counties
SENE 21/ 59-N 9-W 5th PM MO Shelby
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Transcription of the Patent :
Certificate No. 32,856
The United States of America,
To all to whom these Presents shall come,Greeting:
Whereas John N. Bowlsby of Shelby County Missouri has deposited in the General Land Office of the United States, a Certificate of the Register Of The Land Office at Palmyra whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said John N. 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 South East quarter of the North East quarter of Section twenty-one in Township fifty-nine, of Range Nine West in District of Lands offered for sale at Palmyra, Missouri containing forty 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 John N. 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 John N. 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 John N. 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 first day of November in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty six and of the Independence of the United States the Eighty first.
By The President: Franklin Pierce
By A.S.N. Wright asst' sec'y
J. N. Granger Recorder of the General Land Office