United States General Land Office, , Land Patent, for JS, 10 July 1844; Land Entry Case File 16591, in Illinois Tract Book, vol. 416, p. 55; printed form with manuscript additions in unidentified handwriting; Eastern State Office of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM-ESO), Springfield, VA.
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THE , To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:
WHEREAS Joseph Smith, of , Illinois,hasdeposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE of the , a Certificate of the REGISTER OF THE LAND OFFICE at whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the saidJoseph Smithaccording to the provisions ofthe Act of Congress of the 24th of April, 1820, entitled “An Act making further provision for the sale of the Public Lands,” forthe South East quarter of Section twenty five, in Township seven North, of Range eight West in the District of lands subject to sale at , Illinois, containing one hundred and 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 saidJoseph Smith
NOW KNOW YE, That the , 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 saidJoseph Smithand tohisheirs, the said tract here described: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same, together with all the rights, privileges, immunities, and appurtenances of whatsoever nature, thereunto belonging, unto the saidJoseph Smithand tohisheirs and assigns forever.
In Testimony Whereof, I, , PRESIDENT OF THE , 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 , thetenthday ofJuly,in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred andForty fourand of the INDEPENDENCE OF THE the Sixtyninth.
BY THE PRESIDENT,
ByJohn Tyler Jr.Sec’y.
J. Williamson,Recorder of the General Land Office.
R M Whitney Signed by Recorder 10 Dec 1844— [p. 55]