St. Clair County
Land Deeds & Patents

John L. Cain
1 December 1876

The United States of America,
Homestead Certificate No. 2394
Application 5624

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 John L. Cain
has been established and duly consummated in conformity to law for the North West quarter of the South East quarter of Section Thirty one, in Township Sixty six of Range Fourty five,, in the District of Lands subject to sale at Boonville Missouri containing Forty 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 John L. Cain
the tract of Land above described: To Have and to Hold the said tract of Land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said John L. Cain
and to his 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 first day of December, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Seventy-six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundredth first.
By The President: U.S. Grant
By D.D. Cain, Sec’y.
S.W. Clark, Recorder of the General Land Office.