- Date
- 1851-01-10
- Concepts
- land-surveymigrationheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
The General Land Office issued this patent to SPALDING LEWIS on 10 January 1851, out of the Sault Ste. Marie land office. The land is T37N R10W Section 14 NWNW — 37N10W14NWNW on the Michigan Meridian (19) once the description is normalised. Its authority is ScripWarrant Act of 1847, and the row cites February 11, 1847 (9 Stat. 123). Accession 1032-414 covers four location rows. They share the 150.9500 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 1851, 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: 150.9500 acres is the whole patent, spread across four location rows.
PLSS connections
- Quarter-quarter matches: no quarter-quarter match
- Section: PLSS section 14, MI190370N0100W0
- Held survey plat: GLO survey plat: T37N R10W
Open questions
- Does the county deed index record a conveyance out of this patent?
- Does any held record identify SPALDING LEWIS 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 146; record type 'Patent'; grantee/patentee field preserved as 'SPALDING LEWIS'; legal description preserved as 'T37N R10W Section 14 NWNW'; normalized PLSS key 37N10W14NWNW; accession '1032-414'; patent class 'Military Warrant'; authority 'ScripWarrant Act of 1847'; issuing land office 'Sault Ste. Marie'; patent-wide acres '150.9500'. 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 · 6908016064980806737-patent-mw-1032-414
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “GLO land record 1032-414-37n-10w-14-nwnw”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/glo-patent-1032-414-37n-10w-14-nwnw/, 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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