RICHARDSON COUNTY, NEBRASKA  HOMESTEAD PAPERS FOR NICHOLAS SCHEIDEGGER                
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The following information was transcribed by the submitter from sources
cited below. Submitted to the USGenWeb Nebraska Archives, February, 1999, 
by William J Scheidegger (regge1@att.net). 

                     RICHARDSON COUNTY, NEBRASKA
                
                Homestead papers for NICHOLAS SCHEIDEGGER
                        Deed Book #21, Page 284
NICHOLAS SCHEIDEGGER migrated to Richardson County from Switz. in 1854.



United States  ( Filed for record Sept. 8th, 1875 at 2 o-clock P.M.
      to       (                                  Patent
NICHOLAS SCHIDIGGER
   Homestead Certificate No. 66
        Application  85.  The United States of America.

        To all 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 Brownville?, whereby 
it appears that pursuant to the act of Congress approved 20th day of
May 1862. To secure homesteads to actual settlers on the public
domain and the acts supplemental thereto the claim of NICHOLAS SCHIDIGGER
has been established and duly consummated in confirmity to law for the
South half of the South East quarter of Section Eighteen in Township Five
North of Range Thirteen East, in the dictrict of Lands formaly subject
to sale at Brownsville? now Beatrice Nebraska containing Eighty Acres
according to the official Plat of the survey of said land returned to the
General Land Office by the surveyer General. Now know ye. That there is 
therefore granted by the United States unto the said NICHOLAS SCHIDIGGER
and to his heirs and assigns forever. In testimony thereof I Ulysses S.
Grant, President of the United States of America have caused these Letters
to be made Patent and the Seal of the General Office to be hereunto
affixed. Given under my hand at the City of Washington the Twentieth day
of November in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred and
Sixty Nine and of the independance of the United States the Ninety Fourth.

                                By the President
                                                U.S. Grant