Cullman County Alabama - Land - Cynthia Light Land Patent ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB PROJECT NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by Non-Commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store this file permanently for free access. ================================================================================================= This file was contributed by: Darlene ( Campbell ) Scott < scottkids99@aol.com > February 2003 Cynthia Light-Land Patent Cullman County Alabama THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Homestead Certificate No. 7279 } Application..............16522 } TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING: Whereas, a CERTIFICATE of the Register of the Land Office at Huntsville, Alabama, has been deposited in the General Land Office, whereby It appears that, pursuant to the Act of Congress of May 20, 1862 "To Secure Homesteads to Actual Settlers or the Public Domain," and the acts supplemental thereto, the claim of Cynitha Light has been established and duly consummated, in conformity to law, For The North Half of the North East Quarter of Section Seven and the North Half of the North West Quarter in Section Eight in Township Twelve South of Range Five West of Huntsville Meridian Alabama, Containing One Hundred and Eighty One acres and Thirty Two Hundredths 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 claimant the tract of Land above described; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract of Land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said; Cynthia J. Light and to her the heirs and assigns Forever. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, Benjamin Harrison 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 November, in the year of our Lord One THOUSAND NINE Hundred and NINTY ONE and of the Independence of the United States the ONE HUNDRED and SIXTEENTH { Seal } By the President: Benjamin Harrison BY. M. McKean...Sec'y R. Cromwell, RECORDER OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE Note: This is Catherine ( Kate ) Campbell daughter of Lucresa ( Green ) Adam Campbell wife of James ( Jim ) Light.