Jacob Newton Bivens- Vernon Parish, LA
Submitted by Kitty B Hoffman
Date Submitted: 30 June 2022

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Homestead Certificate No. 2858
Application 5198
Date Issued: 21 Oct 1898, Vernon, LA
Land Office:  Natchitoches
Meridian:  Louisiana
Township: 2-N
Range: 10-W
Section: 23
Containing: 120 acres and fifty-eight hundredths of an acre

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 CERTIFICATE of the Register of
the Land Office at Natchitoches, LA, whereby is appears that,
pursuant to the Act of Congress approved 20th May 1862, :To
secure Homesteads to actual settlers on the public domain” and
the acts supplemental thereto, the claim of ANER C. BIVEN, 
widow of JACOB N. BIVEN, deceased has been established and duly
consummated in conformity to law for the North half of the
North West quarter of Section twenty-six, and the South East
quarter of the South West quarter of Section twenty three, in
Township two, North, of Range ten West of Louisiana Meridian in
Louisiana, containing one hundred and twenty acres and fifty-
eight hundredths of an acre, according to the Official Plat of
the Survey of the said Land returned to the GENERAL LAND OFFICE
by the SURVEYOR GENERAL.

          Now know ye, That there is therefore granted by the
UNITED STATES unto said ANER C. BIVEN and to her heirs and
assigns forever.

          In testimony where of I, WILLIAM McKINLEY, 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
twenty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and ninety-eight, and of the
Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-
third By the President: WILLIAM McKINLEY.

By F. M. McKean, Sec’y
C. H. Brush, Recorder of the General Land Office

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