- Date
- 1870-11-25
- Concepts
- land-surveymigrationheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
The General Land Office issued this patent to JOHN ODONNELL on 25 November 1870, out of the Traverse City land office. The land is T38N R10W Section 2 W½SE — 38N10W2SE 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__.488 has this one location row, and the source reports 80.0000 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 1870, 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 02, MI190380N0100W0
- Held survey plat: GLO survey plat: T38N R10W
Open questions
- Does the county deed index record a conveyance out of this patent?
- Does any held record identify JOHN ODONNELL 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 231; record type 'Patent'; grantee/patentee field preserved as 'JOHN ODONNELL'; legal description preserved as 'T38N R10W Section 2 W½SE'; normalized PLSS key 38N10W2SE; accession 'MI2470__.488'; patent class 'State Volume'; authority 'Homestead EntryOriginal'; issuing land office 'Traverse City'; patent-wide acres '80.0000'. 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 · 3150746811197498525-patent-sta-mi2470-488
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “GLO land record MI2470__.488-38n-10w-2-w-se”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/glo-patent-mi2470-488-38n-10w-2-w-se/, 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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