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Certificate for Land Patent, 22 June 1836–A

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Register’s Office, Certificate, to JS, Lexington, Lafayette Co., MO, 22 June 1836; printed form with manuscript additions in unidentified handwriting; signature of Finis Ewing; Land Entry Case File 7873, Record Group 49, Records of the Bureau of Land Management, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington DC. Includes docket.
See also Receiver’s Office, Receipt, 22 June 1836–A.

Historical Introduction

See Historical Introduction to Certificate for Land Patent, 22 June 1836–B.

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Manuscript additions in unidentified handwriting.


No 7873
LAND OFFICE, At
Lexington

Located on high bluffs on southeast bank of Missouri River, about forty miles east of Independence. Area settled, 1817. Selected as county seat, by 1823. City charter obtained, 1845. Population in 1840 about 2,400. Commercial, steamboat, ferrying, and outfitting...

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Missouri
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REGISTER'S OFFICE, June 22nd 1836.
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED, that in pursuance of law, Joseph Smith Jr [blank] of
Ohio

French explored and claimed area, 1669. British took possession following French and Indian War, 1763. Ceded to U.S., 1783. First permanent white settlement established, 1788. Northeastern portion maintained as part of Connecticut, 1786, and called Connecticut...

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county [blank] has this day purchased of the Register of this office, the N. W 1/4 & SW 1/4 & W 1/2 of NE 1/4 of section No. 27 of township No. Fifty six north of the base line, ([blank] of the [blank] river) of range No. Twenty nine west of the fifth principal meridian, containing Four hundred acres and [blank] hundredths, at the rate of $ 1.25 per acre, amounting in the whole to $ 500 for which the said Joseph Smith Jr has made payment in full agreeably to law.
NOW THEREFORE, BE IT KNOWN, that on presentation of this certificate to the Commisioner of the General Land Office, the said Joseph Smith Jr shall be entitled to receive a patent for the land above described.

Signature of Finis Ewing.


Finis Ewing Register. [p. [1]]
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Certificate for Land Patent, 22 June 1836–A
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    Manuscript additions in unidentified handwriting.

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    Signature of Finis Ewing.

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