SENECA COUNTY OHIO - LAND RECORD:  WILLIAMS, Elisha
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Document 182001B   (4-205)
Department of the Interior
General Land Office
Washington DC   Sept. 25, 1896

 	I, S. W. Lamoreux, Commissioner of the General Land Office, do hereby certify that the 
annexed copy of Patent in favor of Elisha Williams founded on Lima, Ohio Cash Entry No. 4607 is
a true and literal exemplification from the record in the Office.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and caused the Seal of this Office to
be affixed, at the City of Washington, on the day and year above written.

				S. W. Lamoreux
				Commissioner of General Land Office

Document No. 2
820014-43

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAN,
TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, GREETING.

Certificate No. 4607	Whereas Elisha Williams of Seneca County, Ohio
Has deposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE of the United States a CERTIFICATE OF THE REGISTER OF 
THE LAND OFFICE at Lima.

Whereby it appears that FULL PAYMENT has been made by the said Elisha Williams 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” for the southeast quarter of section twenty five in township seven, 
north of range six, east in the district of lands subject to sale at Lima, Ohio, containing one 
hundred and 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 had been purchased by the said Elisha Williams.

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 Elisha Williams and to his heirs 
the said Tract above described; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same, together with all the rights, 
privileges, immunities, and appurtenances of whatsoever nature, thereunto belonging, unto the 
said Elisha Williams and to his heirs and assigns forever.

In testimony whereof I, Martin Van Buren, 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 fifteenth day of March, in the year of our 
Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven, and of the Independence of the United States 
the sixty first


			BY THE PRESIDENT:  Martin Van Buren
			By   A. Van Buren, Secretary
			Hudson M. Garland, Recorder of the 
			General Land Office

Recorded, Vol. 10, Page 54

Document 3

Received for Record Oct. 1, 1896 9:00 a.m.
Recorded Oct 1, 1896 in Fulton County Deed Record
Vol. 68  Page 371

G. W. Lee, Recorder

All three documents in reference to land Purchase by Elisha Williams, transcribed from original
copies by Maggie Brown Moerdyke, Lowell, Michigan, August 7, 1998.