September 24, 1859 HOMESTEAD - Land Office at Fort Dodge, Iowa Preemption of Michael Jackman I, John Nowland, being duly sworn according to law do depose and say that MICHAEL JACKMAN commenced an improvement on the lots 1, 2, & 3, Section 18, 96, 32 on or about the 12 May 1857. He is a citizen of the U. S. I have seen him vote, he has a good log house 16 x 20 feet and is residing in it with his family consisting of a wife and one child and has been for over a year. He has 6 acres broke, fenced and under cultivation he has a cow stable, he has a well. He did not move off of deeded land of his own to make this preemption. I consider his improvements have cost more than $150. John Nowland Subscribed & sworn to before me the 24 Sept. 1859 John M. Stockdale, Register ____________________ August 15, 1860 HOMESTEAD - Land Office at Fort Dodge, Iowa THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA To all whom these Presents shall come, Greeting: Whereas, I 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. 95.531 for 120 acres, in favor of Allen Hunter, private, Captain Johnson's Company, South Carolina Militia, War 1812, with evidence that the same has been duly located upon lot numbered One, Two, and Three of Section Eighteen, in Township Ninety Six North, of Range Thirty Two West, in the District of Land subject to sale at Fort Dodge Iowa, containing One Hundred and Thirty Six Acres and ninety hundredths of an acre, 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 assigned by the said Allen Hunter to E. B. Wheeler and by him to MICHAEL JACKMAN, in whose favor said tract ! has been located. NOW KNOW YE, That there is therefore granted by the UNITED STATES unto the said MICHAEL JACKMAN as assignee as aforesaid and to his heirs the tract of Land above described: TO HAVE AND TO HOLD the said tract of Land, with the appurtenances thereof, unto the said MICHAEL JACKMAN as assignee as aforesaid and to his heirs and assigns forever. In testimony whereof, I, James Buchanan, 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 August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Sixty, and the INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES the Eighty fifth. BY THE PRESIDENT: James BUCHANAN By J. W. B. Seward, Secretary J. N. Granger, Recorder of the General Land Office.