War of 1812 Bounty Land

DORR

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 2/21/2009 at 09:18:43

United States Patent Record, No. 84, Jackson County, Iowa.

FROM
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
JACOB DORR

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
To All To Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting

WHEREAS. In pursuance of the Act of Congress, approved September 28th, 1850, entitled “An Act Granting Bounty Land to Officers and Soldiers who have been engaged in the Military Service of the United States,” Warrant No. 44,763 for 40 acres, issued in favor of
Joseph Dorr, Sergeant, Captain Klock’s Company, New York Militia, War of 1812

Has been returned to the General Land Office, with evidence that the same has been duly located upon the

South West quarter of the North East quarter of Section Seventeen, in Township Eighty Six North, of Range Three East, in the District of Lands subject to sale at Dubuque, Iowa, Containing Forty Acres.

According to the Official Plat of the Survey of the said Land returned to the General Land Office by the Surveyor General

NOW KNOW YE, That there is therefore Granted by the United States unto the said Jacob Dorr the tract of land above described: To Have and to Hold the said tract of land with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said Jacob Dorr, and to his heirs and assigns

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I Franklin Pierce, President of the United States of America have caused these letters to be made Patent, and the Seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto
Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, the first of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty
By the President: Franklin Pierce
By Jno H. Wheeler, Assistant Secretary

J. N. Granger, Recorder of the General Land Office, United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Washington, D. C.

(this land is located two miles northwest of Cottonville in Richland Township, Jackson County; bounty land to Joseph Dorr for service in the War of 1812)

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