St. Clair County
Land Patents

Charles Suggs
1 June 1845

The United States of America,
Certificate No. 5790
To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:
Whereas Charles Suggs, 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 Springfield whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said Charles Suggs 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 East quarter of the North East quarter of Section nineteen, in Township thirty eight, of Range twenty seven West, in the District of Lands subject to sale at Springfield, 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 Charles Suggs
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 Charles Suggs 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 Charles Suggs and to his heirs and assigns forever.
In Testimony Whereof, I, James K. Polk,
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 first day of June, in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty five, and of the Independence of the United States the Sixty ninth.
By The President: James K. Polk.
By P. Knox Walker. Sec’y.
J.H. Laughlin, Recorder of the General Land Office.