I am starting off another work week by transcribing a document that reflects my cousin Ed's maternal grandfather's efforts at homesteading. Today I will transcribe Land Patent Certificate that was issued to Reinert Immanuel Emerson (1870 - 1950). This certificate was for a 160 acre section of land in Torning 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 [ ].
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| IMAGE; Digital copy of microfilmed
Land Patent Certificate #04222,
issued to Reinert I. Emerson in 1913.[1]
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4-1004-R.
Minot 04222
The United States of America,
To 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 Reinert I. Emerson has been established and duly consummated, in conformity to law, for the north half of the northwest quarter, the southwest quarter of the northwest quarter and the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter of Section twenty-nine in Township one hundred fifty-three 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 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 ___ of 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 for the local customs, laws, and decision of courts; and there is reserved for the lands hereby granted, a right of way thereon for ditches or canals constructed by the authority of the United States; reserving, also, to the United States all coal in lands so granted, and to it, or persons authorized by it, the right to prospect for, mine, and remove coal from the same upon compliance with the conditions of and subject to the limitations of the Act of March 3, 1909, (35 Stat., 844).
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, Woodrow Wilson
President of the United States of American, have caused these letters to be made Patent, and the seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.
(SEAL)
GIVEN under my hand, at the city of Washington, the EIGHTEENTH day of JUNE in the year of our LORD one thousand nine hundred and THIRTEEN and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and THIRTY-SEVENTH.
By the President: Woodrow Wilson
By M.P. LeRoy Secretary,
L.Q.C. Lamar, Recorder of the General Land Office.
RECORD OF PATENTS: Patent Number 341971 [stamped]
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 19 July 2016), entry for Homestead Certificate No. 04222 for Raymond I. Emerson, 18 June 1913.
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