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GLO land record MI2450__.057-35n-13w-12-section

Also MI2450__.057-35n-13w-12-section · MI2450__.057

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TypeDataset
Date1872-11-15
WithinBeaver Island archipelago
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Date
1872-11-15
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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 12 — 35N13W12 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__.057 has this one location row, and the source reports 45.5000 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 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.

PLSS connections

Open questions

  • Does the county deed index record a conveyance out of this patent?
  • Does any held record identify REUBEN GOODRICH beyond this spelling?

See also

The page

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GLO land record MI2450__.057-35n-13w-12-section — p. 1
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Sources

  1. Source row 47; record type 'Patent'; grantee/patentee field preserved as 'REUBEN GOODRICH'; legal description preserved as 'T35N R13W Section 12'; normalized PLSS key 35N13W12; accession 'MI2450__.057'; patent class 'State Volume'; authority 'Sale-Cash Entry'; issuing land office 'Traverse City'; patent-wide acres '45.5000'. 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 · 2897029542154728626-patent-sta-mi2450-057

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

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “GLO land record MI2450__.057-35n-13w-12-section”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/glo-patent-mi2450-057-35n-13w-12-section/, 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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