Land Patents issued 1866-1880 for Petersburg
Township, Jackson County, Minnesota

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The following excerpt lists land patents issued for Petersburg
Township, Jackson County, Minnesota. It is from 
An Illustrated History of Jackson County, Minnesota
by Arthur P. Rose
Northern History Publishing Company, Jackson, Minnesota, 1910

pp. 118-119

Petersburg township was named in honor of Rev. Peter Baker, the pioneer 
minister of the gospel and a settler of 1860. To it were attached, for 
township and election purposes, the other four, sparsely settled townships 
of the southern tier. Among the early residents of Petersburg township 
who secured land patents from the government, with the year in which the 
patents were issued, and the number of the section upon which the settler 
had his claim, were the following:

1866
Isaac Belknap (6)

1868
M. W. Thompson (6-7)
Charles W. Belknap (18)

1869
Menzo L. Ashley (18)

1870
Ira Camfield (6-7)
Samuel Hall (7)
Miles J. Metcalf (27)
Joseph Price (27)
Peter S. Baker (27-28)
Daniel Baker (28)

1871
Ole Johnson (2)
Ephraim Eby (14)
John C. Hoovel (33)
Hogan Gilbert (34)

1872
Stephen E. Ford (6)
John Logue (8)
Eric Sevatson (34)
Even Herbrandson (34)

1873
Albert D. King (4)
Edward F. Mather (4)
J. N. Thompson (6)
James W. Dunn (6)
Jesse A. Patterson (7)
Andrew J. Patterson (8)
John L. Ashley (12)
Chancy W. Cornish (20)
John Hanney (24)
George D. Stone (34)

1874
Solomon Middaugh (20)
George L. Fortner (28)
Edward Gruhlke (30)
Bottol Olson (32)
Bjorn Bjornson (32)

1875
Samuel Clayton (12)
Lyman W. Seely (22)

1876
Edward Bolter (14)
Nelson Graves (20)
Hebrand Bjornson (22)
James N. Newton (24)
Eugene Logue (26)
Martin Logue (26)
August Gruhlke (30)

1877
Jared Haskin (24)
James H. Baker (28)

1878
Assor Olson (26)

1880
Sever Knudson (26)