An excerpt from a Homestead Act of 1862 - “The purchaser shall acquire absolute title by the purchase, and be entitled to a patent from the United States, on payment of the office fees and sum of money…” Thirty-Seventh Congress, Session II.
Three months later, on Dec. 10, 1817, his official patent (#2346) was signed by President James Monroe and Josiah Meigs, Commissioner of the General Land-Office.
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They started their new life together initially homesteading a land patent in Yellow Medicine County near Canby, Minnesota.