LAND PATENT FROM US TO THE BRANCH PILOTS
Submitted By Gladys Stovall-Armstrong
Extracted By Tami Johnson



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Recording Patent
From The United States 
To Branch Pilots of the Port of New Orleans

The United States of America.

To All To Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting:

Whereas, by the Act of Congress approved June 17th, 1844, entitled "An act 
to authorize the entry of certain lands occupied by the branch pilots of the 
port of New Orleans, and others, in the State of Louisiana, "Andrew Anderson, 
James T. Allen, George Benson, John Bailey, John P. Brown, Edward bourgeois, 
Jacob Baker, William Brounson, Robert Cooper, Edward Clarke, Thomas Cross, 
William C. Davis, Edward G. Davis, Epgraim Eldridge, William Ellis, Dennis 
Finn, Nathaniel J. France, John Fowler, Robert Holliday, John Holland, DAVID 
JOHNSTON, Henry Johnson, James J. Jarvis, George Linton, Cyrus Lamonte, Cyrus 
Morgan, James W. Morgan, John Miller, Hans Meyers, Eramus Newman, John Parker, 
John Perrin, Asa Pavson, Peter Robinson, James B. Read, Francisco Reeper, David 
Shepherd , Joseph Shepherd, William T. Smith, Christopher Speltz, William Stephens, 
James Scott, John Suiler, James Tyson, William D. Tolbott, William Taylor, Thomas 
J. Vanderslice, James W. Williams, Hiram B. Webster, James Kelly, William Denford, 
Edward Hansbury, Joseph E. Dunham, Charles Linguist, Gilbert Leonard,, and Joseph 
Lampade, all the Parish of Plaquemines in the State of Louisiana, or their legal 
representatives" are "authorized to enter at the land office in the South Eastern 
Land District in said State within six months after the passage of this act section 
seventeen and lots one and two of section eighteen in township twenty-three of range 
thirty-three East, situated in said District, upon payment to the Receiver of the 
said Land Office of One doller and twenty-five cents per acre: --Provided, that at 
the time of making said entry shall file in the land office a survey and plot the 
land entered, signed by them or their legal representative, specifying therein the 
extent of their several claims by occupancy: and that when said entry shall be made, 
the same shall enure to the benefit of such persons, severally, in the porportions, 
and according to the quantities specified on said plot.

AND PROVIDED FURTHER: That this act shall not invalidate any rights which any other 
person, not herin names, may be entitled to under law heretofore passed.

AND WHEREAS, there has been deposited in the General Land Office of the United States, 
a certificate No. 2278 of the Register of the Land Office at New Orleans, Louisiana, 
whereby it appears that full payment has been made by "Stephen Harriman, agent of the 
branch pilots of the Port of New Orleans and others" in virtue of the provisions of 
the act aforesaid for certain lots of land, numbered One and Two of Section Eighteen 
in Township numbered Twenty-three of Range numbered Thirty-three, East of the 
Mississippi Line, and West of the Mississippi River, containing Eighteen acres and 
eighteen hundredths of an acre, situate in the district of lands subject to sale at 
New Orleans in the State of Louisiana, according to a corrected official plat of survey 
thereof, bearing date the 23rd, October,1844, returned to the General Land Office by 
the Surveyor General, said lots being all the land claimed by said pilots to be entered 
under the act aforesaid.

NOW KNOW YE, that the United States of America, in consideration of the premises, and 
in conformity with the porvisions of the act aforesaid, HAVE GIVEN AND GRANTED, and by 
these presents, DO GIVE AND GRANT, unto the Pilots and others entitled under act and 
entry aforesaid, the lots of land above described, in severalty, and in the proportions, 
and according to the quantities expressed in the plat thereof required, by the said act
to be filed by them in the Land Office at New Orleans or including their respective 
claims by occupancy.

TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same, together with all the rights, privileges, immunities, and 
appurtenances of whatsoever nature thereunto belonging, unto them, the said Pilots and 
others, and to their heirs and assigns FOREVER, according to the true intent and meaning
of the act of Congress aforesaid. 

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, James K. Polk, 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 nineteenth day of March, in the year 
of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and forty-five, and of the Independence of the 
United States of America, the sixty-ninth.


BY THE PRESIDENT JAMES K. POLK
BY I. KNOX WALKER, Sec,
L.H. LAUGHLIN, Accesor of the General Land Office