St. Clair County
Land Deeds & Patents
Hiram Elkins
1 November 1859
The United States of America,
Graduation S. & C.
Certificate No. 54.084
To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:
Whereas Hiram Elkins, 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 Warsaw whereby it appears that full payment
has been made by the said Hiram Elkins
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 South half of Lot numbered one of the North West quarter of Section
nineteen, in Township thirty seven, of Range twenty five, in the District of
Lands subject to sale at Warsaw, Missouri, containing Forty Acres, and
twenty-six hundredths of an acre
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 Hiram Elkins
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 Hiram Elkins
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 Hiram Elkins
and to his heirs and assigns forever.
In Testimony Whereof, I, James Buchanan
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 November
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine and of the
Independence of the United States the Eighty fourth
By The President: James Buchanan
By J.A.B. Leonard Secretary.
J.N. Granger Recorder of the General Land Office.
