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GLO land record MI2470__.225-37n-10w-21-ne

Also MI2470__.225-37n-10w-21-ne · MI2470__.225

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TypeDataset
Date1869-11-01
WithinBeaver Island archipelago
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Date
1869-11-01
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Summary

The General Land Office issued this patent to JAMES O DONNELL on 1 November 1869, out of the Traverse City land office. The land is T37N R10W Section 21 NE — 37N10W21NE on the Michigan Meridian (19) once the description is normalised. Its authority is Homestead EntryOriginal, and the row cites May 20, 1862 (12 Stat. 392). Accession MI2470__.225 has this one location row, and the source reports 160.0000 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 1869, 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 JAMES O DONNELL beyond this spelling?

See also

The page

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GLO land record MI2470__.225-37n-10w-21-ne — p. 1
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Sources

  1. Source row 185; record type 'Patent'; grantee/patentee field preserved as 'JAMES O DONNELL'; legal description preserved as 'T37N R10W Section 21 NE'; normalized PLSS key 37N10W21NE; accession 'MI2470__.225'; patent class 'State Volume'; authority 'Homestead EntryOriginal'; issuing land office 'Traverse City'; patent-wide acres '160.0000'. 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
  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 · 5037514421893616215-patent-sta-mi2470-225

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

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “GLO land record MI2470__.225-37n-10w-21-ne”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/glo-patent-mi2470-225-37n-10w-21-ne/, 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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