Land Record of Andrew C. Straughn - Covington Co., AL

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May 1999

Homestead Certificate No. 14866
Application 22679

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

To all whom these presents shall come, Greeting:

Whereas there has been deposited in the General Land Office of the United States, a certificate 
of the Register of the Land Office at Montgomery, Alabama, whereby it appears that, pursuant to 
the Act of Congress approved 20th May, 1862, "To secure Homesteads for actual settlers on the 
public domain" and the acts supplemental thereto, the claim of Andrew C. Straughn has been 
established and duly consummated in conformity to law for the 

the North half of the North West quarter of Section Fourteen in Township Four, North, of Range 
Seventeen, East of St. Stephens Meridian in Alabama, containing eighty acres and ten hundredths 
of an acre

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 of America, unto the said 
Andrew C. Straughn the said tract above described:  To have and to hold the said tract of land, 
with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said Andrew C. Straughn and his heirs and assigns 
forever.

In testimony whereof, I, Grover Cleveland, 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 
affixed.

Given under my hand, at the City of Washington, the Twenty Third day of April, in the year of 
our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and Ninety Six, and of the Independence of the United 
States the One hundred and twentieth

By the President: Grover Cleveland
By, M. McKean, Sec'y.
L.Q.C. Lamar, Recorder of the General Land Office