This week's document for transcription is the 1884 Land Patent of Nicholas Brocke receiving land in Latah County, Idaho from the General Land Office, signed by President Chester A. Arthur.
a) General Land Office Land Patent ID0410__.229:
The transcription of this Land Patent (with help from MyHeritage Scribe AI) is:
C 229 The United States of America,To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:
Homestead Certificate No. 251}
Application 710 }Whereas There has been deposited in the General Land Office of the United States a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Lewiston, Idaho
Territory, whereby it appears that, pursuant to the Act of Congress
approved 20th May, 1862, "To secure Homesteads to actual Settlers on the Public Domain,"
and the acts supplemental thereto, the claim of Nicholas Brocke
has been established and duly consummated, in
conformity to law, for the south half of the south west quarter of
and the west half of the south east quarter of section
twenty-nine in township thirty-eight north of range
five west of Boise Meridian in Idaho Territory con-
taining one hundred and sixty acres
according to the Official Plat of the Survey of the said Land, returned to the General Land Office by the
Surveyor General.
Now know ye, That there is, therefore, granted by the United States unto the said Nicholas
Brocke
the tract of Land above described: To have and to hold the said tract of Land, with the appurtenances thereof,
unto the said Nicholas Brocke and to his
heirs and assigns forever; subject to any vested and accrued water rights for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or
other purposes, and rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights as may be recognized and
acknowledged by the local customs, laws, and decisions of courts, and also subject to the right of the proprietor of a
vein or lode to extract and remove his ore therefrom, should the same be found to penetrate or intersect the premises hereby
granted, as provided by law.
United States of America, have caused these letters to be made Patent, and the Seal
of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.
Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, the tenth
day of March in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-four, and of the
Independence of the United States the one hundred and eighth.
BY THE PRESIDENT: Chester A. Arthur
By Wm H Crook, Secretary.
S. W. Clark, Recorder of the General Land Office.
Nicholas Brocke received this land patent for 160 acres of homestead land on 10 March 1884 in Latah County, Idaho pursuant to the Homestead Act of 1862.
John Nicholas Brocke was born 24 January 1855 in Michigan, the son of Johann Peter and Christina Webber. He married Anna Grieser (1859-1936), the daughter of Ignatius and Katherina (Gute) Grieser on 24 April 1877 in Cedar County, Nebraska. They migrated to Latah County, Idaho in 1877 after their marriage. Nicholas Brocke died 14 December 1938 in Lewiston, Nez Perce, Idaho.
Nicholas Brocke (1855-1938) is my wife's great-grandfather through his daughter Amelia Anna Brocke (1884-1975) who married Severt Oliver Leland in 1904 in Montana.
=========================================
Read other transcriptions of records of my relatives and ancestors at Amanuensis Monday Posts.
"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."
The URL for this post is:
Please comment on this post on the website by clicking the URL above and then the "Comments" link at the bottom of each post. Share your comments on Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest using the icons below. Or contact me by email at randy.seaver@gmail.com. Note that all comments are moderated, and may not appear online immediately.
No comments:
Post a Comment