Land: McCarver Land in Louisiana, Caddo Parish La
Submitted by:   Linda L. Green  alrebel@mindspring.com
Date: Feb. 1999

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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CERTIFICATE No. 9604

To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:

Whereas Harrison McCarver of Caddo Louisiana has deposited in the GENERAL LAND
OFFICE of the United States, a Certificate of the REGISTER OF THE LAND OFFICE
at Natchitoches whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said
Harrison McCarver according to the provisions of the Act of Congress of the
24th April, 1820, entitled "An act making further provision for the sale of
the Public Lands," for the North fractional half of the North East quarter of
Section thirty six in Township twenty of Range Sixteen, in the district of
lands subject to sale at Natchitotches, Louisiana, containing fifty four acres
and fifty hundredths of an acre

According to the official plat of the survey of said Lands, returned to the
General Land Office by the SURVEYOR GENERAL, which said tract has been
purchased by the said Harrison Mccarver

NOW KNO9W 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 Harrison McCarver 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 Harrison McCarver and to his heirs and assigns
forever.

In Testimony whereof, I, Franklin Pierce PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA, have caused these Letters to be made PATENT, and the SEAL of the
GENERAL LAND OFFIC to be hereunto affixed.

GIVEN under my hand, at the CITY OF WASHINGTON, the first day of September in
the Year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty three and of the
Independence of the United States the Seventy-eighth

BY THE PRESIDENT:  Franklin Pierce
     By Jno. H. Wheeler, Asst Sec'y
     J. A. Granger, Recorder of the General Land Office