St. Clair County
Land Deeds & Patents

Nathaniel T. Casey
24 March 1888

The United States of America,
Homestead Certificate No. 3914
Application 10680

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 Nathaniel T. Casey
has been established and duly consummated in conformity to law for the west half of the south-east quarter of section fourteen in Township Thirty-eight north of range twenty-seven west of the Fifty Principal Meridian, in Missouri, containing eighty 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 Nathaniel T. Casey
the tract of Land above described: To Have and to Hold the said tract of Land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said Nathaniel T. Casey
and to his heirs and assigns forever.
In Testimony whereof, I, Grover Cleveland
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 twenty-fourth day of March, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twelfth.
By The President: Grover Cleveland
By M. McLean, Sec’y.
Robt. W. Robt., Recorder of the General Land Office.