Homestead Certificate for John Legg
Submitted by Gaytha Carver Thompson




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THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
TO WHOM ALL THESE PRESENTS COME, GREETING:

Homestead Certificate No: 3467

Application: 6714

Whereas there has been deposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE of the United
States a CERTIFICATE of the Register of Land Office New Orleans whereby it
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 John Legg has been established and duly
communsuated in conformity to law of the North West quarter of the South East quarter, and the South West quarter of the South East quarter of Section eight in Township two South of Range seven west of Louisiana Meridian in Louisiana containing 80 acres and twenty seven 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 the said John Legg the tract of Land above described: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract of Land with the appurtenancs thereof, unto the said John Legg and to his heirs and assigns forever.

In testimony where of Benjamin Harrison, 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 Sixth day of February , in the year of Our Lord One Thousand eight hundred and Ninty Two, and of the
Independence of the United States, the one hundred and sixteenth

By the  President, Benjamin Harrison (signature)

By M. M. McKearn Sec'y (signature)

D. P. Roberts, Recorder of the GENERAL LAND OFFICE (signature)

L.S. seal affixed