I am starting off another work week by transcribing a document that is important to my family research. Today I will transcribe the Land Patent Certificate that was issued to my paternal Great-Grandfather, William C. Johnson. This certificate he received was for a 160 acre quarter section of land in Cameron Township, Ward County, North Dakota. Just north of the small town of Douglas
Amanuensis Monday is a weekly blog theme that was started by John Newmark, the author of TransylvanianDutch blog. John defines Amanuensis as "A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another." I also appreciate the good work and format examples of San Diego genealogist Randy Seaver of the blog Genea-musings. Thanks guys.
I hope that working through transcribing documents that are important to my family's history will help to to recall the fine details they contain. I have a tendency to gloss over important bits of information in my excitement of the find.
This is a form filled out primarily by typed-in information. I will present the typed information in italics to help provide clarity. Fields that are left blank on the original will also be left blank on the transcription. My comments will show with square brackets [ ].
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| IMAGE: Digital copy of microfilmed Land Patent Certificate #03919, to WIlliam Johnson. [1] |
4-1004-R.
MINOT 03919
The United States of America,
In all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:
WHEREAS, A Certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Minot, North Dakota,
has been deposited in the General Land Office, whereby it appears that, pursuant to the Act of Congress of May 20, 1862, "To Secure Homesteads to Actual Settlers on the Public Domain," and the acts supplemental thereto, the claim of WILLIAM JOHNSON has been established and duly consummated, in conformity to law, for the NORTHEAST QUARTER OF SECTION TWENTY-SEVEN IN TOWNSHIP ONE HUNDRED FIFTY-ONE OF RANGE EIGHTY-FIVE WEST OF THE FIFTH PRINCIPAL MERIDIAN, NORTH DAKOTA, CONTAINING ONE HUNDRED SIXTY ACRES,
according to the Official Plat of the Survey of the said Land, returned to the GENERAL LAND OFFICE by the Surveyor-General:
NOW KNOW YE, That there is, therefore, granted by the UNITED STATES unto the said claimant the tract of Land above described; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract of Land, with the Appurtenances thereof, unto the said claimant and to the heirs and assigns of the said claimant 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 by the authority of the United States; reserving, also, to the United States all coal in the land so granted, and to it, of persons authorized by it, the right to prospect for, mine, and remove coal from the same upon compliance with the conditions of and subject tothe limitations of the ACT OF MARCH 3, 1909 --35 STAT., 844--.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, WILLIAM H. TAFT
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 TWENTY-THIRD
(SEAL) day of SEPTEMBER in the year of our LORD one thousand
nine hundred and TWELVE and of the Independence of the
United States the one hundred and THIRTY-SEVENTH.
By the President: Wm H. Taft
by M.P. LeRay Secretary,
H.W. Langford
Recorder of the General Land Office.
RECORD OF PATENTS: Patent Number 293234
6-2183
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Source:
1. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, online database with images, U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office (http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ : accessed 3 April 2016), entry for Patent 03919 for William Johnson 23 September 1912.
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