St. Clair County
Land Deeds & Patents

Spillman A. Hoover
1 November 1859

The United States of America,
Graduation A.P.
Certificate No. 55589
To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:
Whereas Spillman A. Hoover, 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 Spillman A. Hoover,
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 the South East quarte, of Section Seventeen, in Township Thirty-eight, of Range Twenty-six, in the District of Lands subject to sale at Wasaw Missouri, containing Eighty 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 Spillman A. Hoover:
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 Spillman A. Hoover
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 Spillman A. Hoover,
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
J.A.B. Leonard Secretary.
J.N. Granger Recorder of the General Land Office.