St. Clair County
Land Deeds & Patents

Benjamin Elkins
30 May 1873

The United States of America,
Homestead Certificate No. 1058
Application 4.889.

To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:
Whereas, there has been deposited in the General Land Office of the United States, a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Boonville Missouri, 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 the Heirs of Benjamin Elkins deceased has been established and duly consummated in conformity to law for the South half of the South East quarter of Section seven, and the North half of the North East quarter of section eighteen, in Township thirty-seven North of Range twenty five West, in the district of lands subject to sale at Boonville, Missouri, containing one hundred and fifty acres, and fifty five hundredths of an acre.
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 Heirs of Benjamin Elkins, deceased
the tract of Land above described: To Have and to Hold the said tract of Land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said Heirs of Benjamin Elkins deceased and to their heirs and assigns forever.
In Testimony whereof, I, Ulysses S. Grant, 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 thirtieth day of May, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, and of the Independence of the United States the ninety-seventh.
By The President: U.S. Grant
By S.D. Williamson, Sec’y.
C.B. Boyerton, Recorder of the General Land Office.