St. Clair County
Land Deeds & Patents

James M. Harper
1 November 1890

The United States of America,
Homestead Certificate No. 4355
Application 91915

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 James M. Harper
has been established and duly consummated in conformity to law for the North half of the North East quarter and the South East quarter of the North East quarter of section thirteen in Township thirty eight North, of Range twenty four West, of the Fifth Principal Meridian in Missouri, containing one hundred and twenty 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 James M. Harper
the tract of Land above described: To Have and to Hold the said tract of Land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said James M. Harper
and to his heirs and assigns forever.
In Testimony whereof, I, Benjamin Harrison
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 ninety, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundredth and fourteenth
By The President: Benjamin Harrison
By Ellen Macfouland, asst. Sec’y.
J.R. Conwell, Recorder of the General Land Office ad interin