- Date
- 1908-06-18
- Concepts
- land-surveymigrationheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
The General Land Office issued this patent to LUCY L BENHAM on 18 June 1908, out of the Marquette land office. The land is T39N R10W Section 12 LOT 2 — 39N10W12 on the Michigan Meridian (19) once the description is normalised. Its authority is Homestead EntryOriginal, and the row cites May 20, 1862 (12 Stat. 392). Accession 0790-390 covers four location rows. They share the 148.8500 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 1908, 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: 148.8500 acres is the whole patent, spread across four location rows.
PLSS connections
- Quarter-quarter matches: no quarter-quarter match
- Section: PLSS section 12, 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 LUCY L BENHAM beyond this spelling?
- Can a tract book or a field note place this description inside a quarter-quarter rather than the whole section?
See also
The page
Rendered from the held scan.
Sources
- Source row 504; record type 'Patent'; grantee/patentee field preserved as 'LUCY L BENHAM'; legal description preserved as 'T39N R10W Section 12 LOT 2'; normalized PLSS key 39N10W12; accession '0790-390'; patent class 'Miscellaneous Volume'; authority 'Homestead EntryOriginal'; issuing land office 'Marquette'; patent-wide acres '148.8500'. 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 · 3040525179757611560-patent-mv-0790-390
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “GLO land record 0790-390-39n-10w-12-2”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/glo-patent-0790-390-39n-10w-12-2/, 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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