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Federal land patent signed for President John Quincy Adams, certificate no. 405, granting to Mitchel Faust, assignee of William Clark, the east half of the north-west quarter of section four, township three, range three east, 77.96 acres, in the land district of Washington, Mississippi (the date reads May 1825).
Document · dated 1825 · source: U.S. General Land Office, land patent (copy in the family tree)
How it is shown: Complete patent as supplied (a one-page PDF); no crop, no retouch.
Keep in mind: What the page says: the printed form reads 'KNOW YE, That Mitchel Faust, assignee of William Clark, having deposited in the GENERAL LAND OFFICE a Certificate of the Register of the Land office at ... whereby it appears that full payment has been made for the East half of the North West Quarter of Section Four, in Township Three of Range Three East containing seventy seven acres and ninety six hundredths of an acre ...'; signed for the President by an agent and the Commissioner of the General Land Office, 'Given under my hand at the City of Washington, the Fifth day of May ... eighteen hundred and twenty five'. The given name reads Mitchel (not Michael) in the handwriting. Whether this is our person: Likely, not Confirmed, that this Mitchel Faust is the tree's Mitchell S. Faust (1797-1835), who lived in the Mississippi counties of Wilkinson and Amite; the patent gives no middle initial or residence for him.