Vincent Sylvestus Roden Land Records, Walker, Alabama http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/walker/land/vsroden.txt ==================================================================== 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 Project Archives to store this file permanently for free access. This file was contributed by: Darlene (Campbell) Scott ==================================================================== February 2003 Vincent Sylvestus Roden Land Records - Walker Co. AL THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Certificate } No. 18,055 } TO ALL WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETINGS: Whereas Vincent Sylvestus Roden of Walker County Alabama having deposited in the General Land Office, a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Huntsville whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said, Vincent Sylvestus Roden according to the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 24th of April, 1820 entitled "An Act making further provision for the sale of the Public Lands," for the North East Quarter of the South East Quarter of Section Twenty Nine in Township Thirteen in Range Nine West in the District of Lands subject to sale at Huntsville Alabama containing Forty Acres According to the official plat of the survey of the said Lands, returned to the General Land Office by the SURVEYOR GENERAL, which said tract has been purchased by the said Vincent Sylvestus Roden NOW KNOW YE, That the United States of America, in consideration of the Premises and in conformity with the several acts of Congress, in such case made and provided, HAVE GIVEN AND GRANTED, and by these presents DO GIVE AND GRANT, unto the said Vincent Sylvestus Roden and to his heirs, the said tract above described: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same, together with all the rights, privileges, immunities, and appurtenances of whatsoever nature, thereunto belonging, unto the said Vincent Sylvestus Roden In Testimony Whereof, I, Franklin Price, President of the United States of America have caused these letters to b 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 Fifteenth day of June in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty Four and of the Independence of the United States of America the Seventy-Eight BY THE PRESIDENT, Franklin Pierce By H. E. Baldwin, Sec'y J. N. Granger, Recorder of the General Land Office