COLLECTION NAME:
Historic Photograph Collection
Record
Filename:
P-7.jpg
Identifier:
P-7
Title:
Land Patent
Subject:
Municipal
Description:
A copy of a document from the United States General Land Office detailing the sale of public lands to Stephen Shippey of Jefferson County, New York. The land in question is described as "the west half of the South West quarter of Section Twenty Two in Township Three North of Range Eleven East in the District of Detroit and Territory of Michigan containing Eighty Acres," and consists of what would become Avon Township. The land patent is signed by President James Monroe and John McLean, Commissioner of the General Land Office on April 2, 1823.
Date:
02-Apr-1823
Type:
Photo/slide
Place:
Avon Township, Michigan
Data Provider:
Rochester Hills Public Library
Land Patent
