Posted by Pati Blowers May on September 18, 19102 at 10:48:59:
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.
DAVID BOWLBY
Survey
State: Ohio Acres: 160
Title Transfer
Issue Date: 8/1/1844
Land Office: Lima
Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
Document Nr.: 10704 Accession/Serial Nr.: OH1730__.177
Legal Land Description:
Aliquot Parts Sec./Block Twp Range Meridian State Counties
NE 21/ 6-N 3-E 1st PM OH Williams
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Transcription of the Patent :
Certificate No. 10704
The United States of America,
To all to whom these Presents shall come,Greeting:
Whereas David Bowlby of Clermont County, Ohio has deposited in the General Land Office of the United States, a Certificate of the Register Of The Land Office at Lima whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said David 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 North East quarter of Section twenty=one Township six, North, of Range Three East, in the District of lands subject to sale at Lima, Ohio containing one hundred sixty 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 David 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 David 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 David Bowlby and to his heirs and assigns forever.
In Testimony Whereof, I John Tyler 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 August in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-four and of the Independence of the United States the Sixty nineth.
By The President: John Tyler
By J. Tyler, Jr. Sec'y
Wm. Whitney Recorder of the General Land Office
syned by ??????? Ju 10,1844