This is my first attempt at writing a post using the weekly theme of Amanuensis Monday. This writing theme was the brain-child of Genealogy Blogger [Genea-blogger] John Newmark, who writes the transylvaniandutch blog.
According to John, amanuensis means: "A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another." Google also tells us that this word is a noun that describes "a literary or artistic assistant, in particular one who takes dictation or copies manuscripts." Thanks John for getting us started, however so long ago.
There are a number of reasons transcribing has proved to be useful. It may be to have in written-format the proceedings from a courtroom, contents of interviews, etc. or in typed-format handwritten documents, especially those difficult to read. For me, I think it is a tool to use that helps me learn the contents of a document. I have the tendency to read over something without really absorbing the details. I find if I write out the words seen on the face of the document, then I learn more of what it contains.
I also want to thank Randy Seavers of Genea-Musings and Jenny Lanctot of Are My Roots Showing for their inspiration on article formatting and providing such good examples that help to show me how it is done.
Today, I am transcribing the land patent awarded to Oscar Ostrom on 02 April 1908. This document was found on the Bureau of Land Management's - General Land Office Records website http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx; that I accessed on 16 February 2016.
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| IMAGE: Digitized microfilm copy of the land patent certificate of Oscar Ostrom. http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/search/default.aspx |
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(RECORD OF PATENTS)
4-407 a-tyr.
339 [handstamped]
The United States of America,
To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:
Certificate No. 14730.
WHEREAS, OSCAR OSTROM
has deposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE of the United States a Certificate of the
Register of the Land Office at Minot, North Dakota, whereby it appears
that full payment has been made by the said Oscar Ostrom
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," and the acts
supplemental thereto, for the southwest quarter of Section twenty-three in Township one
hundred fifty-one north of Range eighty-four west of the Fifth Principal Meridian,
North Dakota, 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
Oscar Ostrom:
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
Oscar Ostrom 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 Oscar Ostrom
and to his heirs and assigns forever, subject to any vested and accrued water
rights for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, and rights to ditches
and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may be recognized and
acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and decisions of courts, and also subject to the
right of the proprietor of the vein or lode to extract and remove his ore therefrom, should
the same be found to penetrate or intersect the premises hereby granted, as provided by
law; and there is reserved from the lands hereby granted, a right of way thereon for
ditches or canals constructed by the authority of the United States.
In Testimony whereof I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the
United Stated 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
(SEAL) second day of April, in the year
of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight
and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred
and thirty-second.
By the President: Theodore Roosevelt
by M.W. Young, Secretary,
H.W. Sanford
Recorder of the General Land Office.
6-892
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