Francis Welch, Vernon Parish Louisiana
Submitted by Bill McCullough
Date: January 6, 2009

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The United States of America,
To all to whom these Presents shall come, Greeting:
Homestead Certificate No. 9326
Application 20379
Whereas, There has been deposited in the General Land Office of the 
United States a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office at
New Orleans, Louisiana, 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 Francis S. Welch, has been established and duly consummated,
in conformity to law, for the East half of the North East quarter of 
Section twenty-eight in Township one South of Range five West of
Louisiana Meridian in Louisiana containing eighty-four acres and 
thirteen hundredths of an acre. according to the Official Plat 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 Francis S. Welch the tract of Land above described: To Have And
To Hold the said tract of Land with the appurtenances thereof, unto the
said Francis S. Welch heirs and assigns forever; and there is reserved 
from the lands hereby granted, a right of way thereon forditches or canals 
constructed by the authority of the United States. 

In testimony whereof, 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-second day of
April, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and one, and of
the Independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-fifth.
By the President, William McKinley
By F.M. McKean, Secretary
C.H. Brush, Recorder of the General Land Office.