- Date
- 1885-05-20
- Concepts
- land-surveymigrationheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
The General Land Office issued this patent to JOHN W STEWART on 20 May 1885, out of the Reed City land office. The land is T37N R10W Section 20 LOT 4 — 37N10W20 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 MI2950__.456 has this one location row, and the source reports 54.0000 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 1885, 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 20, 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 W STEWART 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 178; record type 'Patent'; grantee/patentee field preserved as 'JOHN W STEWART'; legal description preserved as 'T37N R10W Section 20 LOT 4'; normalized PLSS key 37N10W20; accession 'MI2950__.456'; patent class 'State Volume'; authority 'Sale-Cash Entry'; issuing land office 'Reed City'; patent-wide acres '54.0000'. 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 · 8822433231126547673-patent-sta-mi2950-456
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “GLO land record MI2950__.456-37n-10w-20-4”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/glo-patent-mi2950-456-37n-10w-20-4/, 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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