U.S. St. Stephen's Land Office - Registers' patent records, 1814-1861.

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U.S. St. Stephen's Land Office - Registers' patent records, 1814-1861.

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Patents are the final official certificate transferring title from the U.S. government to a private purchaser. Patents were issued by the General Land Office (GLO) only after a careful examination of all accounts and records sent to the GLO by district land offices. Once the GLO was satisfied that the purchaser had met all the necessary requirements and had made all the payments due on a tract of land, the office issued a patent, which was sent to the appropriate district land office. The district office was then responsible for notifying individuals that the patent was available and could be claimed at the office. If patents were unclaimed, they were returned to the GLO. District land office Registers kept records of patents received from the GLO, receipts signed by the purchasers acknowledging receipt of the patent and lists of unclaimed patents returned to the GLO. Generally such records include the patent number, the purchaser's name and the location of the tract. These records are useful for tracing the procedure by which an individual obtained ownership of public land. Included in this series are patent records 1814-1829, 1847, and 1850-1861.

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Alabama. Secretary of State. Lands Division.

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United States. General Land Office

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Under regulations approved on March 20, 1915, tracts set aside as villa sites under the provisions of an act of April 12, 1910, within the former Flathead Indian Reservation, Montana, were offered for sale at public auction, beginning at Polson, Montana, on July 26, 1915. The sale was adjourned to Dayton, Montana, on August 6 and concluded at Kalispell, Montana, on August 7, 1915. There were 889 parcels of land, not less than 2 nor more than 5 acres in area, fronting on Flathead Lake, and under ...

United States. St. Stephen's Land Office

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Authority: Bush, Evelyn. "United States Land Offices in Alabama, 1803-1879." Alabama Historical Quarterly 17 (1955): 146-153. The St. Stephens Land Office was created by an act of Congress on 1803 Mar. 3 to administer part of the Land District East of the Pearl River. The office opened in 1811 Sept. and was moved to Mobile in 1867. Though the boundaries administered by the office changed several times, the St. Stephens Land Office generally was responsible fo...