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. Today I will transcribe Land Patent Certificate that was issued to Olaus 'Ole' Ommundsen Ostrom (1850 - 1924). This certificate was for a 79+ acre section of land in Pomme De Terre Township, Grant County, Minnesota. Olaus was my father's maternal grandfather, or my 2x great grandfather. Olaus was also an immigrating ancestor on this branch having arrived from Norway in 1871.
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 [ ].
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IMAGE: Digital copy of microfilmed
Land Patent Certificate #7191,
issued to Ole O. Ostrom in 1890.[1]
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96 [stamped]
The United States of America,
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING:
Homestead Certificate No. 7191 }
Application 7944 }
Whereas there has been deposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE of the United States a CERTIFICATE of the Register of the Land Office at Saint Cloud, Minnesota, whereby it appears that, pursuant to the Act of Congress approved 20th May 1862, "To secure Homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain," and the acts supplemental thereto, the claim of Ole O. Ostrom has been established and duly consummated in conformity to law for the South East quarter of the South East quarter and the Lot numbered four of Section twenty-eight in Township one hundred and thirty North of Range forty-two West of the Fifth Principal Meridian in Minnesota containing seventy nine acres and twenty-four hundredths of an acre 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 Ole O. Ostrom the tract of Land above described: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract of Land with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said Ole O. Ostrom and to his heirs and assigns forever.
In testimony whereof I, Benjamin Harrison
President of the United States of America, have caused these letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, the eighth day of December, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and fifteenth
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By the President: Benjamin Harrison
6-380
By Ellen Macfarland, Asst. Sec'y.
J.M. Townsend, Recorder of the General Land Office.
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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 18 July 2016), entry for Homestead Certificate No. 7191 for Ole O. Ostrom, 08 December 1890.
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