- Date
- 1892-01-30
- Concepts
- land-surveymigrationheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
The General Land Office issued this patent to JOHN NELSON on 30 January 1892, out of the Grayling land office. The land is T35N R13W Section 32 LOT 2 — 35N13W32 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 MI3110__.136 covers three location rows. They share the 126.5000 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 1892, 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: 126.5000 acres is the whole patent, spread across three location rows.
PLSS connections
- Quarter-quarter matches: no quarter-quarter match
- Section: PLSS section 32, MI190350N0130W0
- Held survey plat: GLO survey plat: T35N R13W
Open questions
- Does the county deed index record a conveyance out of this patent?
- Does any held record identify JOHN NELSON 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 80; record type 'Patent'; grantee/patentee field preserved as 'JOHN NELSON'; legal description preserved as 'T35N R13W Section 32 LOT 2'; normalized PLSS key 35N13W32; accession 'MI3110__.136'; patent class 'State Volume'; authority 'Homestead EntryOriginal'; issuing land office 'Grayling'; patent-wide acres '126.5000'. 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 · 1714727248967969073-patent-sta-mi3110-136
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “GLO land record MI3110__.136-35n-13w-32-2”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/glo-patent-mi3110-136-35n-13w-32-2/, 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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