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GLO land record 21087-39n-9w-12-nwnw

Also 21087-39n-9w-12-nwnw · 21087

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TypeDataset
Date1908-10-12
WithinBeaver Island archipelago
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Summary

The General Land Office issued this patent to JOHN BA SHIE WIE TONG on 12 October 1908, out of the Marquette land office. The land is T39N R9W Section 12 NWNW — 39N9W12NWNW 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 21087 covers three location rows. They share the 148.0000 acres the source reports. The detail record names the tribe CHIPPEWA, allotment number 46.

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: 148.0000 acres is the whole patent, spread across three location rows.

PLSS connections

Open questions

  • Does the county deed index record a conveyance out of this patent?
  • Does any held record identify JOHN BA SHIE WIE TONG beyond this spelling?
  • Does the allotment or trust file behind this entry survive?

See also

The page

Rendered from the held scan.

GLO land record 21087-39n-9w-12-nwnw — p. 1
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Sources

  1. Source row 681; record type 'Patent'; grantee/patentee field preserved as 'JOHN BA SHIE WIE TONG'; legal description preserved as 'T39N R9W Section 12 NWNW'; normalized PLSS key 39N9W12NWNW; accession '21087'; patent class 'Serial Patent'; authority 'Indian Trust Patent'; issuing land office 'Marquette'; patent-wide acres '148.0000'. 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
  2. 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 · 7687234391493446331-patent-ser-21087

Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “GLO land record 21087-39n-9w-12-nwnw”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/glo-patent-21087-39n-9w-12-nwnw/, accessed [date], citing Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, Michigan land-record export. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-03. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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