Amanuensis Monday - Land Grant for John Ehlers (1872-1934)

Dear FOLKS,

I am starting off another work week by transcribing a document that is important to my research into the land holdings of family members that homesteaded near Douglas, North Dakota.. Today I will transcribe Land Patent Certificate that was issued to John Ehlers (1872-1934). This certificate was for a 160-acre quarter section of land in Spring Lake Township, Ward County, North Dakota.

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 bold-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 [ ].

IMAGE: Digital copy of microfilmed

Land Patent Certificate #13204,

issued to John Ehlers.[1]

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(RECORD OF PATENTS.)
4-407 a-ty.
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[HANDSTAMPED]  373

The United States of America,
To all to whom these presents shall come. Greeting:

Certificate No. 13204.

       WHEREAS, JOHN EHLERS
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 John Ehlers 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 northeast 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 John Ehlers:
       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 saide John Ehlers 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 John Ehlers 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 a 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, 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 Unites States.

        In testimony whereof I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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.

[handwritten] 93175
(SEAL)

       GIVEN under my hand, at the City of Washington, the sixth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and seven and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-second.
       By the President Theodore Roosevelt
         By F.M. McKean, Secretary,
            H.W. Lanford,
               Recorder of the General Land Office.
6-892

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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 9 June 2016), entry for Patent 13204 for John Ehlers 6 September 1907.

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