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GLO land record MI3090__.028-38n-10w-25-3

Also MI3090__.028-38n-10w-25-3 · MI3090__.028

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TypeDataset
Date1884-12-20
WithinBeaver Island archipelago
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Date
1884-12-20
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Summary

The General Land Office issued this patent to PHILIP GALLAGHER on 20 December 1884, out of the Reed City land office. The land is T38N R10W Section 25 LOT 3 — 38N10W25 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 MI3090__.028 covers three location rows. They share the 140.2500 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 1884, 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: 140.2500 acres is the whole patent, spread across three location rows.

PLSS connections

Open questions

  • Does the county deed index record a conveyance out of this patent?
  • Does any held record identify PHILIP GALLAGHER 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.

GLO land record MI3090__.028-38n-10w-25-3 — p. 1
Held scanBureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, Michigan land-record export.Open the page image · Download this page

Sources

  1. Source row 368; record type 'Patent'; grantee/patentee field preserved as 'PHILIP GALLAGHER'; legal description preserved as 'T38N R10W Section 25 LOT 3'; normalized PLSS key 38N10W25; accession 'MI3090__.028'; patent class 'State Volume'; authority 'Homestead EntryOriginal'; issuing land office 'Reed City'; patent-wide acres '140.2500'. 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 · 12755500252156091406-patent-sta-mi3090-028

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

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “GLO land record MI3090__.028-38n-10w-25-3”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/glo-patent-mi3090-028-38n-10w-25-3/, 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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