(ref: Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office, Iowa Volume 129, pg 16)

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The United States Of America,
To all to whom these presents shall come, Greeting:

Certificate No. 14095

Whereas, James McConon, of Alamakee County, Iowa
has deposited in the General Land Office of the United States, a Certificate of the Register of the Land Office, at Dubuque whereby it appears that full payment has been made by the said James McConon according to the provisions of the Act of Congress of the 24th of April, 1820, entitled "An act making further provision for the sale of the Public Lands," for the North West quarter of the North West quarter of Section Thirty, in Township Ninety Eight North, of Range Two West, in the District of Lands Subject to sale at Dubuque, Iowa, containing Forty Acres

According to the Official Plat of the Survey of the said Lands, returned to the General Land Office by the Surveyor General, which said Tract has been purchased by the said James McConon, Now, Know Ye, That the United States of America, in consideration of the premises, and in conformity with the several Acts of Congress, in such case made and provided, Have Given and Granted, and by these presents Do Give and Grant, unto the said James McConon and to his heirs, the said Tract above described; To Have And To Hold the same, together with all the rights, privileges, immunities and appurtenances of whatsoever nature thereunto belonging, unto the said James McConon and to his heirs and assigns

In Testimony Whereof, I, Franklin Pierce, 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 First day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fiftythree and of the Independence of the United States the seventy-eighth.

By The President: Franklin Pierce
By Jno. H. Wheeler, Asst.. Secty

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