Land Record, Thomas W. Sharpless, Pike, AL
Submitted by John E. Sharpless <jonsharp@frontiernet.net>

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Land Record: Thomas W. Sharpless, Pike, Alabama

Copyright 2002 by John E. Sharpless. This copy contributed for use in
the USGenWeb Archives. <jonsharp@frontiernet.net>

(Hand written document found in the Cash Files of The National Archives,
Old Military and Civil Records Branch, Textural Services Division, 
Washington, D.C. 20408.)

48445

I, Thomas W. Sharpless, of Pike county, Alabama, and now residing in 
said county and State, aged Seventy years, and too infirm to travel in
consequence of old age, being desirous of entering the South West quarter
of the North East quarter of Section nine, in Township Eight, of Range 
twenty, under the act entitled "An act to graduate and reduce the price
of the public lands to actual settlers and cultivators", approved the 4th
of August, 1854, do solemnly swear, that I enter the same for the use of 
an adjoining farm owned by me, situated on the South East quarter of the 
North West quarter of Section nine, in Township Eight, of Range twenty; 
of said farm about twenty acres are now in cultivation, and there are on
said land the following additional improvements, viz: a cotton house & 
some other real improvements; and together with the entry now applied for,
I have not acquired from the United States, under the provisions of said
act, more than three hundred and twenty acres, according to the returns of 
surveys.  I further testify, that said land is not now in the occupancy of
any actual settler; and further, that if there shall be an actual settler
residing upon said land at the date of my entry of the same, I hereby 
relinquish all claim to the same.

                                          Thomas W. Sharpless

State of Alabama} On this the second day of November, 1855, personally 
Pike County     } appeared before me, Bird Fitzpatrick, Judge of Probate 
in and for said county and State, Thomas W. Sharpless, to me well known
as the person described in, and who signed the foregoing affidavit, who,
having been duly sworn, deposes and says, that the statement contained in
said affidavit are correct and true.

I also certify to the fact, stated in said affidavit, that the said Thomas
W. Sharpless is too old and infirm to travel to the local Land Office to make
entry of the land applied for in his affidavit.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office the day
 and years herein stated.

                                            Bird Fitzpatrick
                                            Judge of Probate