Document No.31199

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, To all to whom these presents shall come, Greetings:

Whereas In pursuance of the Act of Congress, approved March 3, 1855, entitled "An Act in addition to certain Acts granting Bounty Land to certain Officers and Soldiers who have been engaged in the military service of the United States," there has been deposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE, Warrant No. 31.199 for 80 acres in favor of Franklin Moye Private, Captain Easern's Company North Carolina Militia War 1812 with evidence that the same has been duly located upon the North half of the South West quarter of Section Seventeen in Township Four South of Range One West, in the District of Lands Subject to sale at Helena Arkansas, Containing Eighty acres, according to the Official Plat of the Survey of said Lands returned to the GENERAL LAND OFFICE by the SURVEYOR GENERAL the said warrant having been azigned by the said Franklin Moye to Vance A. Marquis and Charles W. Belknap in whose favor the said tract has been located.

NOW KOW YE, that there is therefore granted by the UNITED STATES unto the said Vance A. Marquis and Charles W. Belknap, as assi-nces as aforesaid and to their heirs the tract of Land above described: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract of Land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said Vance A. Marquis and Charles W. Belknap as assignees as aforesaid and to their heirs and assigns forever.

In Testimony Whereof, I, James Buchanan PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, have caused these Letter 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 first day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine, and of the INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES the Eighty fourth.

BY THE PRESIDENT: James Buchanan
By L.A.B. Leonard, Secretary
I. N. Granger - Recorder of the General Land Office
Source: Arkansas Bureau of Land Management