BLM Land Patent: John M. Spruill : Torrance County, New Mexico This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by K. Waterhouse Copyright © 2002 http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm John Milligan Spruill was my great-grandfather. He was born in Texas in 1854 with his twin brother, Reuben. He lived in Lampasas County, Texas until after 1900 when he migrated to Estancia, Torrance County, New Mexico. He was the son of General Jackson Spruill and Mary Adeline McCormick. *********************************************************************** BEGIN ACTUAL TRANSCRIPTION: *************************** Record of Patents 24291 The United States of America To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting: Certificate No. 2766 Whereas, John M. Spruill has deposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE of the United States of America a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office at Santa Fe, New Mexico, whereby it appears the full payment has been made by the said John M. Spruill according to the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 24th of April, 1820, entitled "An Act making further provision for the sale of the Public Lands," and the acts supplemental thereto, for the northwest quarter of Section thirty-foru in Township six north of Range eight east of the New Mexico Meridian, New Mexico, containing on hundred sixty acres, according to the Official Plat of the Survey of the said lands, returned to the GENERAL LAND OFFICE by the Surveyor General, which said Tract has been purchased by the said John M. Spruill: NOW KNOW YE, That the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in consideration of the premises, and in conformity with the several Acts of Congress in such case made and provided, HAVE GIVEN AND GRANTED, and by these presents DO GIVE AND GRANT, unto the said John M. Spruill and to his heirs, the said Tract above described; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same, together with all the rights, privileged, immunities, and appurtenances, or whatsoever nature, thereunto belonging, unto the said John M. Spruill and to his heirs and assigns forever' subject to any vested and accrued water rights for mining, agricultural, manufacturing, or other purposes, and rights to ditches and reservoirs used in connection with such water rights, as may be recognized and acknowledged by the local customs, laws and decisions of courts, and also subject to the right of the proprietor of a vein fo lode to extract and remove his ore therefrom, should the be found to penetrate or intersect the premises hereby granted, as provided by law; and there is reserved from the lands hereby granted a right of way thereon for ditches or canals constructed by the authority of the United States. In testimony whereof I, Theodore Roosevelt, 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 October, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eight and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirty-third. By the President (Signature) Theodore Roosevelt By (Signature) M. W. Young, Secretary, (Signature) (Can't read) Recorder of the General Land Office