William Irwin and Mary Richey Land Patent

Date: 31 May 1816
Location: Green Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States
Surnames/tags: Irwin Richey

Following is a transcription of William Irwin and Mary Richey Land Patent (link is to search results from the General Land Office of the US Bureau of Land Management, one of which links to the original land patent document).

For a complete history of this property, see Westwood Irwin-Witt-Wagner Property.

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James Madison, President of the United States of America, TO ALL TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME, Greeting:

KNOW YE, That William Irwin in his own right & Mary Ritchey as assignee of James Ritchey

having deposited in the General Land-Office a Certificate of the Register of the Land-Office at Cincinnati whereby it appears that full payment has been made for the Southeast quarter of Section Eight of township Two in the second fractional Range, lying between the Miami Rivers

of the lands directed to be sold at Cincinnati by the act of Congress, entitled “an act providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the territory north-west of the Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky river,” and of the acts amendatory of the same: There is granted, by the United States, unto the said William Irwin & Mary Ritchey the quarter lot or section of land above described: To have and to hold the said quarter lot or section of land, with the appurtenance, unto the said William Irwin & Mary Ritchey their heirs and assigns forever.

as tenants in common and not as joint tenants

In Testimony whereof, I 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 Thirtyfirst day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixteen and of the Independence of the United States of American, the fortieth.

BY THE PRESIDENT, James Madison

Josiah Mays Commissioner of the General Land-Office

Acknowledgement

Thank you to R. Wagner for discovering this document and sharing its location for publication here.