- Date
- 1875-08-19
- Concepts
- land-surveymigrationheritage
- Within
- Beaver Island archipelago
Summary
The General Land Office issued this patent to JOSEPH ME SHAW GAW on 19 August 1875, out of the Washington Ofc. The land is T39N R10W Section 2 LOT 6 — 39N10W2 on the Michigan Meridian (19) once the description is normalised. Its authority is Indian Allotment - General, and the row cites February 8, 1887 (24 Stat. 388). Accession MI3250__.271 covers three location rows. They share the 83.0000 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 1875, 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: 83.0000 acres is the whole patent, spread across three location rows.
PLSS connections
- Quarter-quarter matches: no quarter-quarter match
- Section: PLSS section 02, MI190390N0100W0
- Held survey plat: GLO survey plat: T39N R10W
Open questions
- Does the county deed index record a conveyance out of this patent?
- Does any held record identify JOSEPH ME SHAW GAW 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 491; record type 'Patent'; grantee/patentee field preserved as 'JOSEPH ME SHAW GAW'; legal description preserved as 'T39N R10W Section 2 LOT 6'; normalized PLSS key 39N10W2; accession 'MI3250__.271'; patent class 'State Volume'; authority 'Indian Allotment - General'; issuing land office 'Washington Ofc'; patent-wide acres '83.0000'. 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 · 3271168046014625314-patent-sta-mi3250-271
Added 1 August 2026 · revised 3 August 2026. Recent changes
Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “GLO land record MI3250__.271-39n-10w-2-6”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/documents/glo-patent-mi3250-271-39n-10w-2-6/, 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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