- Date
- 1859-09-14
- Concepts
- land-surveymigrationheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
The General Land Office issued this patent to WILLIAM E BROWN on 14 September 1859, out of the Duncan land office. The land is T39N R10W Section 20 NESE — 39N10W20SENE on the Michigan Meridian (19) once the description is normalised. Its authority is ScripWarrant Act of 1855, and the row cites March 3, 1855 (10 Stat. 701). Accession 0122-223 covers two location rows. They share the 120.0000 acres the source reports.
Ownership evidence and limits
A patent records the moment the United States parted with the land, and stops there. Whatever happened afterwards sits in the county deed index rather than here. The grantee is the spelling a clerk wrote in 1859, and it stays a spelling until a separate identity record carries the link to a person or an organisation. A shared surname is not that record.
Do not carry the acreage onto this description either: 120.0000 acres is the whole patent, spread across two location rows.
PLSS connections
- Quarter-quarter matches: PLSS quarter-quarter 39N10W20NESE
- Section: PLSS section 20, MI190390N0100W0
- Held survey plat: GLO survey plat: T39N R10W
Open questions
- Does the county deed index record a conveyance out of this patent?
- Does any held record identify WILLIAM E BROWN beyond this spelling?
See also
The page
Rendered from the held scan.
Sources
- Source row 519; record type 'Patent'; grantee/patentee field preserved as 'WILLIAM E BROWN'; legal description preserved as 'T39N R10W Section 20 NESE'; normalized PLSS key 39N10W20SENE; accession '0122-223'; patent class 'Military Warrant'; authority 'ScripWarrant Act of 1855'; issuing land office 'Duncan'; patent-wide acres '120.0000'. Legal-description note ''. This is a source-record assertion about the recorded grantee or patentee, not a claim about subsequent conveyances or current ownership. The holder's public portal is searchable but does not link this record directly; the archive holds a copy of the file and can provide it on request.federal · glo · beaver_island_patent_locations
- Held patent image for the source record; the temporary public image-delivery token is not retained. The holder's public portal is searchable but does not link this record directly; the archive holds a copy of the file and can provide it on request.federal · glo · patents · 6938851698629948152-patent-mw-0122-223
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “GLO land record 0122-223-39n-10w-20-nese”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/glo-patent-0122-223-39n-10w-20-nese/, accessed [date], citing Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, Michigan land-record export. (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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