Posted by Pati Blowers May on September 18, 19102 at 11:28:04:
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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.
Joseph Bowlby
Survey
State: Ohio Acres: 40
Title Transfer
Issue Date: 8/10/1837
Land Office: Zanesville
Authority: April 24, 1820: Sale-Cash Entry (3 Stat. 566)
Document Nr.: 9628 Accession/Serial Nr.: OH1560__.075
Legal Land Description:
Aliquot Parts Sec./Block Twp Range Meridian State Counties
SESE 8/ 4-N 11-W U.S. Military Survey OH Licking
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Transcription of the Patent :
Certificate No. 9628
The United States of America,
To all to whom these Presents shall come,Greeting:
Whereas Alvah Buckingham assignee of William Shannon and Joseph Bowlby of Licking County,Ohio has deposited in the General Land Office of the United States, a Certificate of the Register Of The Land Office at Zanesville whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said William Shannon and Joseph 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 South East quarter of the South East quarter of Section eight in Township four of Range eleven of the unappropriated Lands in the Military District subject to sale at Zanesville, Ohio containing fourty 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 William Shannon and Joseph 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 Alvah Buckingham 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 Alvah Buckingham 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 tenth 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 second.
By The President: Martin Van Buren
By A. Van Buren, Sec'y
Jos. L. Wilson Acting Recorder of the General Land Office
ad interim