Lawrence County Alabama - George W. Roden Land Record 1886
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George W. Roden Land Record - Lawrence Co. AL


..Homestead Certificate No. 4139 }
..Application.............. 9840 }


The United States Of America, To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: Whereas there has 
been deposited in the General Land Office of the United States, a CERTIFATE of the REGISTER OF The 
Land OFFICE at Huntsville, Alabama,_____whereby it appears that, pursuant to the Act of Congress 
approved 20th May 1862, " To secure Homestead to actual settlers on the public domain, " and the 
acts supplemental thereto, the claim of_____George W. Roden______________________________ has been 
established and duly consummated in conformily to the;

North West Quarter of the North East Quarter of Section Thirty Five in Township Five South of Range 
Nine West of Huntsville Meridian in Alabama, containing Thirty Nine acres and Eighty Hundredths of 
an acre.

According to the Official Plat of the Survey of the said Lands, returned to the General Landoffice 
by the SURVEYOR GENERAL.

NOW KNOW YE, That there is therefore granted by the United States unto the said George W. Roden the 
track of land above described: TO HAVE AND HOLD the said tract of land, with the appertenances 
thereof, unto the said, George W. Roden
and to his heirs and assigns forever.  
 

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, Grover Cleveland President of the United States of America, I have caused 
these letters to be made PATENT, and the SEAL of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.

[ Seal ]

GIVEN under my hand, at the City of Washington, the Thirteenth day of March,___________________in 
the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Six, and of the Independence of the 
United States the One Hundred and Tenth 

BY THE PRESIDENT: Grover Ceveland
_______By M. McKean, Secretary,
_______S. W. Clark, Recorder of the General Land Office