- Date
- 1908-10-12
- Concepts
- land-surveymigrationheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
The General Land Office issued this patent to JOSEPH BIRD on 12 October 1908, out of the Marquette land office. The land is T34N R13W Section 4 NWNW — 34N13W4NWNW on the Michigan Meridian (19) once the description is normalised. Its authority is Indian Trust Patent, and the row cites June 15, 1880 (21 Stat. 199). Accession 21065 has this one location row, and the source reports 40.0000 acres for it. The detail record names the tribe OTTAWA, allotment number 22.
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.
PLSS connections
- Quarter-quarter matches: PLSS quarter-quarter 34N13W04NWNW
- Section: PLSS section 04, MI190340N0130W0
- Held survey plat: GLO survey plat: T34N R13W
Open questions
- Does the county deed index record a conveyance out of this patent?
- Does any held record identify JOSEPH BIRD beyond this spelling?
- Does the allotment or trust file behind this entry survive?
See also
The page
Rendered from the held scan.
Sources
- Source row 6; record type 'Patent'; grantee/patentee field preserved as 'JOSEPH BIRD'; legal description preserved as 'T34N R13W Section 4 NWNW'; normalized PLSS key 34N13W4NWNW; accession '21065'; patent class 'Serial Patent'; authority 'Indian Trust Patent'; issuing land office 'Marquette'; patent-wide acres '40.0000'. 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 · 17603155924644535712-patent-ser-21065
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “GLO land record 21065-34n-13w-4-nwnw”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/glo-patent-21065-34n-13w-4-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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