- Date
- 1872-11-15
- Concepts
- land-surveymigrationheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
The General Land Office issued this patent to REUBEN GOODRICH on 15 November 1872, out of the Traverse City land office. The land is T35N R13W Section 11 LOT 4 — 35N13W11 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 MI2450__.056 covers four location rows. They share the 199.9000 acres the source reports.
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 1872, 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: 199.9000 acres is the whole patent, spread across four location rows.
PLSS connections
- Quarter-quarter matches: no quarter-quarter match
- Section: PLSS section 11, MI190350N0130W0
- Held survey plat: GLO survey plat: T35N R13W
Open questions
- Does the county deed index record a conveyance out of this patent?
- Does any held record identify REUBEN GOODRICH beyond this spelling?
- 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 45; record type 'Patent'; grantee/patentee field preserved as 'REUBEN GOODRICH'; legal description preserved as 'T35N R13W Section 11 LOT 4'; normalized PLSS key 35N13W11; accession 'MI2450__.056'; patent class 'State Volume'; authority 'Sale-Cash Entry'; issuing land office 'Traverse City'; patent-wide acres '199.9000'. 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 · 11147493862344556604-patent-sta-mi2450-056
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “GLO land record MI2450__.056-35n-13w-11-4”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/glo-patent-mi2450-056-35n-13w-11-4/, 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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