- Date
- 1922-06-29
- Concepts
- land-surveymigrationheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
The General Land Office issued this patent to BENNETT STEPHENS on 29 June 1922, out of the Marquette land office. The land is T37N R10W Section 17 SENE — 37N10W17NESE on the Michigan Meridian (19) once the description is normalised. Its authority is Indian Fee Patent, and the row cites October 14, 1865 (14 Stat. 703). Accession 870492 has this one location row, and the source reports 40.0000 acres for it. The detail record names the tribe CHIPPEWA.
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 1922, 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: no quarter-quarter match
- Section: PLSS section 17, 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 BENNETT STEPHENS beyond this spelling?
- Can a tract book or a field note place this description inside a quarter-quarter rather than the whole section?
- Does the allotment or trust file behind this entry survive?
See also
The page
Rendered from the held scan.
Sources
- Source row 155; record type 'Patent'; grantee/patentee field preserved as 'BENNETT STEPHENS'; legal description preserved as 'T37N R10W Section 17 SENE'; normalized PLSS key 37N10W17NESE; accession '870492'; patent class 'Serial Patent'; authority 'Indian Fee 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 · 14846030713731620296-patent-ser-870492
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “GLO land record 870492-37n-10w-17-sene”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/glo-patent-870492-37n-10w-17-sene/, 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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