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GLO land record MI1960__.339-39n-11w-17-section

Also MI1960__.339-39n-11w-17-section · MI1960__.339

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TypeDataset
Date1851-12-01
WithinBeaver Island archipelago
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Date
1851-12-01
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Beaver Island archipelago

Summary

The General Land Office issued this patent to JOSEPH V BROWN on 1 December 1851, out of the Sault Ste. Marie land office. The land is T39N R11W Section 17 — 39N11W17 on the Michigan Meridian (19) once the description is normalised. Its authority is Sale-Cash Entry, and the row cites April 24, 1820 (3 Stat. 566). Accession MI1960__.339 has this one location row, and the source reports 80.5000 acres for it.

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.

PLSS connections

Open questions

  • Does the county deed index record a conveyance out of this patent?
  • Does any held record identify JOSEPH V BROWN beyond this spelling?

See also

The page

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GLO land record MI1960__.339-39n-11w-17-section — p. 1
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Sources

  1. Source row 593; record type 'Patent'; grantee/patentee field preserved as 'JOSEPH V BROWN'; legal description preserved as 'T39N R11W Section 17'; normalized PLSS key 39N11W17; accession 'MI1960__.339'; patent class 'State Volume'; authority 'Sale-Cash Entry'; issuing land office 'Sault Ste. Marie'; patent-wide acres '80.5000'. 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 · 3338478321014067764-patent-sta-mi1960-339

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

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “GLO land record MI1960__.339-39n-11w-17-section”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/glo-patent-mi1960-339-39n-11w-17-section/, 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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