This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.co.uk/mbexec/msg/5538/Vm.2ADI/55.1.1 Message Board Post: My family owns part of the 40-acre parcel which Joshua Woodhouse homesteaded on Nov. 10, 1855 in Grant County, Wisconsin. An image of the original Land Patent is available at www.glorecords.blm.gov and is very interesting reading. Franklin Pierce was President.