- Date
- 1869-11-01
- Concepts
- land-surveymigrationheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
The General Land Office issued this patent to JOHN KELLEY on 1 November 1869, out of the Traverse City land office. The land is T37N R10W Section 21 NESW — 37N10W21SWNE 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__.230 covers four location rows. They share the 160.0000 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 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.
Do not carry the acreage onto this description either: 160.0000 acres is the whole patent, spread across four location rows.
PLSS connections
- Quarter-quarter matches: PLSS quarter-quarter 37N10W21NESW
- 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?
- Does any held record identify JOHN KELLEY beyond this spelling?
See also
The page
Rendered from the held scan.
Sources
- Source row 189; record type 'Patent'; grantee/patentee field preserved as 'JOHN KELLEY'; legal description preserved as 'T37N R10W Section 21 NESW'; normalized PLSS key 37N10W21SWNE; accession 'MI2470__.230'; 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
- 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 · 2881270431893882538-patent-sta-mi2470-230
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “GLO land record MI2470__.230-37n-10w-21-nesw”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/glo-patent-mi2470-230-37n-10w-21-nesw/, 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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