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GLO land record MI2480__.199-38n-10w-4-ne

Also MI2480__.199-38n-10w-4-ne · MI2480__.199

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TypeDataset
Date1872-02-15
WithinBeaver Island archipelago
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Date
1872-02-15
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Beaver Island archipelago

Summary

The General Land Office issued this patent to CORNELIUS GALLAGHER on 15 February 1872, out of the Traverse City land office. The land is T38N R10W Section 4 NE — 38N10W4NE 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 MI2480__.199 has this one location row, and the source reports 158.4500 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 CORNELIUS GALLAGHER beyond this spelling?

See also

The page

Rendered from the held scan.

GLO land record MI2480__.199-38n-10w-4-ne — p. 1
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Sources

  1. Source row 243; record type 'Patent'; grantee/patentee field preserved as 'CORNELIUS GALLAGHER'; legal description preserved as 'T38N R10W Section 4 NE'; normalized PLSS key 38N10W4NE; accession 'MI2480__.199'; patent class 'State Volume'; authority 'Homestead EntryOriginal'; issuing land office 'Traverse City'; patent-wide acres '158.4500'. 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 · 3980484041832151243-patent-sta-mi2480-199

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

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “GLO land record MI2480__.199-38n-10w-4-ne”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/glo-patent-mi2480-199-38n-10w-4-ne/, accessed [date], citing Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, Michigan land-record export. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

Last revised 2026-08-03. Fill in [date] with the date you read it — this page is static and cannot know that.

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