1824 Land Grant Signed By President Monroe
1824 Land Grant signed by President Monroe
This document measuring 13 1/4 x 9 3/4, is a land patent (official land grant) signed by U.S. President James Monroe.
Document Details
President: James Monroe, fifth President of the United States of America.
Grantee: William Blodget of the town of Reading, who purchased the land along with Agnes Spink.
Location: The land is identified as "Lot Number Three Nine" in the "Town of Perrysburg" within the "United States Reserve" of twelve miles square on the "Miami of Lake Erie", in Ohio.
Date: Issued under Monroe's hand at Washington on the day of August (day is blank) in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty (year is handwritten as 'twenty-', implying early 1820s). The year 1821 is visible in the upper left notation.
Signatures: The document is signed "James Monroe" as President and countersigned by the Commissioner of the General Land Office (name is difficult to read but likely Josiah Meigs, the commissioner during that era).
Recording Information: It was recorded in Volume 4, Page 422.
Purpose: The patent officially transfers public land title from the United States government to the individual after full payment was made at the land office in Wooster, Ohio, under acts of Congress providing for the sale of lands in the Northwest Territory.
1824 Land Grant signed by President Monroe
This document measuring 13 1/4 x 9 3/4, is a land patent (official land grant) signed by U.S. President James Monroe.
Document Details
President: James Monroe, fifth President of the United States of America.
Grantee: William Blodget of the town of Reading, who purchased the land along with Agnes Spink.
Location: The land is identified as "Lot Number Three Nine" in the "Town of Perrysburg" within the "United States Reserve" of twelve miles square on the "Miami of Lake Erie", in Ohio.
Date: Issued under Monroe's hand at Washington on the day of August (day is blank) in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty (year is handwritten as 'twenty-', implying early 1820s). The year 1821 is visible in the upper left notation.
Signatures: The document is signed "James Monroe" as President and countersigned by the Commissioner of the General Land Office (name is difficult to read but likely Josiah Meigs, the commissioner during that era).
Recording Information: It was recorded in Volume 4, Page 422.
Purpose: The patent officially transfers public land title from the United States government to the individual after full payment was made at the land office in Wooster, Ohio, under acts of Congress providing for the sale of lands in the Northwest Territory.