Muskingum County, OH Land Records

George Needler - Blackford Co, IN

Land patent dated 20 Aug 1838 Issued to George Needler of Muskingum Co OH
for lands in Blackford Co, IN

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Certificate Number 19737

To All Thee Present Shall Come, Greeting;

Whereas George Needler of Muskingum County, Ohio has deposited in the General Land Office of the United States, a certificate of the REGISTER OF THE LAND OFFICE at Fort Wayne, whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said George Needler 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" for

North West quarter of Section seventeen in Township twenty three North of Range Ten East, in the District of Lands subject to sale at Fort Wayne, Indiana containing one hundred and sixty acres

According to the official plat of the survey of Said Lands returned to the General Land Office by the Surveyor General, which said tract has been purchased by the said George Needler.

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 George Needler, and to his heirs, the said tract above described; TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the same, together with all the rights, privledges, immunities and appartences of whatsoever nature, thereunto belonging to said George Needler, and to his heirs and assigns forever.

In Testamony 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 Unto My Hand at the City of Washington, the twentieth day of August, in the Year of Our Lord, One Thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, and of the Independence of the United States the sixty third,

BY THE PRESIDENT, Martin Van Buren
By M Van Buren Jr S'ecy
Jos S. Wilson, Acting Recorder of the General Land Office. ad interim

(ed: next to seal is the handwritten number 95263 which looks like it was added later.)

NOTE: This land was later sold by George & Jane Titus Needler

Deed book A of Blackford County, Indiana

George Needler and wife, Jane, of Grant Co., Ind.,
to William F. Goodin of Guernsey Co., Ohio. Dec. 14, 1841
NW 1/4 of Sect. 17, T23 N of R. 10 East.
Wit: Francis Needler & Anne Beath.

George Needler died the following year (1842) in Grant Co Indiana.

George Needler was the husband of Jane Titus

submitted by Susie Martin-Rott

NOTE: While this is not a land sale within Muskingum County, Ohio, it is evidence of the early migration of this Muskingum family into Indiana.

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