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Subject: [MERCER] Re: OHMERCER-D Digest V01 #139
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 14:35:06 -0500
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Jason,

Someone may need to correct me on this as I am no expert on land patents, but I think you
will find that the handwriting in all the blanks on the land patent will match President
Van Buren's signature which indicates the clerk signed for him.

Most patent land, when sold, as opposed to bounty land, went for about $1.25 an acre I
believe.

And yes, the dates on the patents are usually later than when the buyer actually moved onto
the land.

Chuck


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> Subject: [MERCER] Land Patents
> Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 19:46:29 -0500
> From: "Jason Gaerke" <>
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> Hello,
> My ancestor Dieterich Gärke purchased some land in Recovery Township. In a
> letter he sent back to Hannover Germany, he stated that he moved in 1838 to
> his land.
>
> I found a Land Patent Record for him at http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ and
> it was signed in 1840. The document _almost_ appears to have been signed by
> President Martin Van Buren. I understand that often there was a few years
> delay in getting the offical land patent document (as was the case with my
> ancestor) from the land office because of the backlog.
>
> *** Does anyone have any idea what he might have paid per acre in 1838 to
> buy land from the US Government?
>
> *** Did Martin Van Buren really sign the land patent, or was it just a "fill
> in the blank" thing for a lowly clerk to do at the Lima Land Office?
>
> Many thanks,
> Jason
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