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1878 PATENT HOLDERS - PLATTE COUNTY, NE

The Homestead Entry Act of May 20, 1862, authorized unrestricted settlement on public lands to all settlers, requiring only residence, cultivation, and some improvement to a tract of 160 acres. Any person was eligible who was head of a family or had reached the age of 21, who was a citizen or intended to become one, and who did not own as much as 160 acres. After living on the land and farming it for six months, he could buy the homestead at $1.25 an acre. But after five continuous years, he could apply for and receive a patent or title to the 60 acres for a filing fee of $15.

Patents are deeds transferring land ownership from the U.S. Government to a buyer. A patent is the first record in a chain of title for a parcel of land.

[The Journal - Wednesday, August 21, 1878]

List of Patents

In the United States Land Office at Grand Island, Neb: 

RANGE 1 WEST.
Michael Upton,           Jakob Mathys,
Chas. O’Biddlecome,      Robert Treacy,
Reinhold Brandt,         John McWelsimer,
Patrick Hayes,           Cyrus D. Hazen,
Michael Dody,            Michael Deady,
Anna Stickler,           George Murie,
John W. Schmidt,         Hamlin V. Monnett,
A. G. Morey,             James Outwater,
Rufus Leach,             John McGuane.

RANGE 2 WEST.
Patrick Carey,           Mehetable Magoon,
Dana Magoon,             Frank Field,
Joseph H. Watts,         Edward H. Baker,
Peter Reinheimer,        F. B. Wolf,
Wm. Routson,             John Blaser,
J. H. Johannes,          L. V. Chapin,
James Rutledge,          Jacob Schlecht,
Fred Schulz,             Fred Plagemann,
Mary Manderville,        Cynthia Shaffer,
Patrick Morrissey,       Philip Howell,
Rebecca Snyder,          Barclay Jones.

RANGE 3 WEST.
Patrick Delaney,         John R. Gilmore,
E. A. Blodgett,          Johannes Jaun,
P. James Collins,        Robert Lewis,
Samuel Anderson,         Wm. J. Irwin,
Charles Thorsen,         Jacob Tschudin,
Michael Morrissey,       Thomas Kelley,
Lars Magnuson,           Charles Olson,
Wm. B. Coffin,           J. J. Blodgett,
Anna Galligan,           Thos. McPhilips,
Henry McCabe.

RANGE 4 WEST.
Elizabeth Gilman,        Martin Bohen,
Daniel Holleran,         Thomas Farrall,
B. F. Baird.
Parties owning the lands for which the patents call for should send the final receipt to Register of Land Office, Grand Island, Nebr., and get them immediately. Do not delay.

E. W. ARNOLD.

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