Land Record of John G. Straughn - Covington Co., AL

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May 1999

Homestead Certificate No. 16973
Application 28858

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 John G. Straughn has been 
established and duly consummated in conformity to law for the 

West half of the Sout West quarter of Section Five in Township Five North, of Range Seventeen 
East of St. Stephens Meridian in Alabama, containing one hundred fifty nine acres and seventy 
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 
John G. Straughn the said tract above described:  To have and to hold the said tract of land, 
with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said John G. Straughn and his heirs and assigns 
forever.

In testimony whereof, I, William McKinley, 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 January, in the year of 
our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and one, and of the Independence of the United States the 
One hundred and twenty fifth

By the President: William McKinley
By, F.M. McKean, Sec'y.
C.H. Brush, Recorder of the General Land Office

Note:  The following sentence was marked out in the paragraph just prior to the presidential 
testimony:  "And there is reserved from the lands hereby granted a right of way thereon for 
ditches or canals constructed by the authority of the United States."