St. Clair County
Land Deeds & Patents

Ann Hoover
15 May 1852

188 The United States of America,
Certificate No. 32.066
To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:
Whereas Ann Hoover of St. Clair County Missouri
has deposited in the General Land office of the United States, a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Clinton whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said Ann Hoover according to the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 24th of April, 1820, entitled “An act making further provision for the sale of the Public Lands,” for
the North West quarter of the South East quarter, of Section Thirty one, in Township Thirty nine, of Range Twenty four in the District of Lands subject to sale at Clinton Missouri, containing forty acres
according to the official plat of the survey of the said Lands, returned to the General Land Office by the Surveyor General, which said tract has been purchased by the said Ann Hoover
Now Know Ye, That the United States of America, in consideration of the Premises, and in conformity with the several acts of Congress, in such case made and provided, Have Given And Granted, and by these presents Do Give And Grant, unto the said Ann Hoover and to his heirs, the said tract above described: To Have And To Hold the same, together with all the rights, privileges, immunities, and appurtenances of whatsoever nature, thereunto belonging, unto the said Ann Hoover and to her heirs and assigns forever.
In Testimony Whereof, I, Millard Fillmore
President of the 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 fifteen day of May in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty two and of the Independence of the United States the Seventy Sixth.
By The President: Millard Fillmore.
By M.P. Fillmore Sec’y.
E.S. Terry Recorder of the General Land Office.