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.
Patents Ready. The following is a list of patents in the U.S. land office at Grand Island, Neb., Jan. 1, 1884, for delivery in Platte county, Neb.:
Nun M Lent,
Phillip Schroeder, 2,
Edward Schaad,
L Byrnes,
M Garden,
John Hoessel,
Valentine Duschter,
Jas. Compton, Jr.,
Hans B Jessen,
Henrich Reese,
Jas. W Lockhart,
Henry G F Keuscher,
Phebe Fulton,
Augustus Kountz, 2,
John Stiener,
Hugo Schaad,
Johannes Brugger,
Edward R Jones,
Soren Anderson,
W N McCandlish,
Sonke Sonnichsin,
Joseph Wickham,
Franz Koch,
Leonard Anson,
Wm Grant,
M H White,
Thomas Sullivan,
Maurice Langen,
Jos. Borowiak,
John P Braun,
Johan Haschke,
Robt. Gentleman,
Lilla McDonald,
John Von Bergen,
Ulrich Von Bergen,
Jas. L Brown,
Dennis Regan,
J Honahan,
Dielbrich Behlem,
Matthew Lowry,
George A Linn,
Franz Schmid,
James W Lynch,
Reinhold Brandt,
Cyrus D Kazen,
Chas. O'Biddlecom,
Franz Schon,
Michael Upton,
Michael Dody,
Alex. F Simmonds,
Wilhelm Kleve,
Gustav Schon,
Lorenzo Enzminger,
John Hennessy,
Pasqua Baker,
John S Wood,
John Kubik,
Michael Doody,
Rodger Breheney,
Jas. Garlick,
Peter Reinheimer,
Wm. Routson,
Macig Buzynski,
George Minten,
Christof Kummitz,
Michael Boyle,
Wm. Loseke,
Niels Pederson,
A H Potter,Andrew O'Donnell,
Michael Fisher,
Frantz Wazniak,
Thomas M Olin,
T O'Neill,
August Viergutz,
Thomas Podraza,
Wm ____er,
Chas. W Resler,
Franz Fuger,
Theresa Greisen,
John Dahms,
Joseph Stewart,
D E Jones,
M W Bunker, 2,
Peter Ericson,
H S Elliott,
Henry F Bauer,
Margaret Sullivan,
Patrick Coleman,
Jas. H Milslagle,
Wm. L Armstrong,
Wm. Benson,
Hans Jakob Jensen,
Joseph Kuhnell,
N Johnson,
J C Harley, 2,
John Boss,
Hollis Buxker,
T M Arnold,
Michael Deady,
Maria North, widow,
M Burns,
Gottfried Stenzell,
Thomas Blandford,
Alva E Smith,
James H Sloane,
E B Hall,
Wm. M Arnold,
John H James,
Philip Heberling,
Carl J Carlson,
Louis Patterson,
Octaber Plant,
John Blomquist,
M A Searles,
Ole Hellicksen,
John Nelson, 2,
Patrick Gilligan,
Clark H Blecher,
Rasmus Massen,
Carl Jansen,
Frans Soderbarg,
Ole J Solberg,
Anders Anderson,
Hans N Christensen,
J H Reed,
Sam J Davidson,
Ole Abe Throneson,
Christ Petersen,
Gustav Alfred Dahlman,
John Koch,
Gustav Abrahamson,
Ed. M Southwell,
John N McClintic,
Thomas Gannon,
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