- Date
- 1864-11-01
- Concepts
- land-surveymigrationheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
The General Land Office issued this patent to GILLMAN APPLEBY on 1 November 1864, out of the Traverse City land office. The land is T37N R10W Section 21 LOT 5 — 37N10W21 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 MI2400__.039 has this one location row, and the source reports 31.6500 acres for it.
The spelling is linked to Gilman Appleby through a separate Helen Collar research card: it records Gilman Appleby’s purchase from the United States of the same Lot 5 in Section 21, T37N R10W. This is a record-specific identity bridge, not a surname-only or proximity match. The card’s reported May 1863 purchase date and the patent’s 1 November 1864 issue date are preserved as separate transaction-stage dates.
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 1864, 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 21, MI190370N0100W0
- Held survey plat: GLO survey plat: T37N R10W
Open questions
- Does the county deed index record a conveyance out of this patent?
- 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 184; record type 'Patent'; grantee/patentee field preserved as 'GILLMAN APPLEBY'; legal description preserved as 'T37N R10W Section 21 LOT 5'; normalized PLSS key 37N10W21; accession 'MI2400__.039'; patent class 'State Volume'; authority 'Sale-Cash Entry'; issuing land office 'Traverse City'; patent-wide acres '31.6500'. 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 · 17425753714195534295-patent-sta-mi2400-039
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “GLO land record MI2400__.039-37n-10w-21-5”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/glo-patent-mi2400-039-37n-10w-21-5/, 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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