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Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records

• Title	Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records
  Short Title	Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records
  Publisher	US Department of the Interior
  Repository	US Department of the Interior
  Source ID	S710
  Linked to (3)	BOTTS, Rufus HOSKINSON, Riley M HOSKINSON, Stuart/Stewart F.

  
  

• Documents » Slide Show		Land Patent 28505, Rufus Botts 1854 Sold to Rufus Botts of McDonough Co., IL: 40 acres at 5th PM, Township/Range 060N - 012W, Aliquots SE¼ SW¼, Section 4 (northwest of Novelty, MO) at land office in Palmyra, MO. Patent doesn't state what Rufus paid for the land.
  		Land Patent 28563, Rufus Botts 1855 Sold to Rufus Botts of McDonough Co., IL: 320 acres, 5th PM, Township/Range 061N - 012W, Section 33, Aliquots W½ SE¼, E½ SW¼, W½ NE¼, and E½NW¼ (this land also northwest of Novelty, MO but significantly south of land in Section 4). Again, patent doesn't state what Rufus paid for the land.
  		1938 Plat of Township 6N, Range 12, West of 5th Principal Meridian, Knox Co., MO Land patents for Rufus Botts shown in yellow
  		Homestead Certificate No. 1358 to Riley M. Hoskinson, Bainbridge Island, Kitsap Co., WA, 1882 This certificate apparently formalizes ownership of the homestead the Hoskinson's moved to in 1878 composing the "north half of the southwest quarter and the south half of the northwest quarter of section twenty-six in township twenty-five north of range two east of the Willamette Meridian in Washington Territory containing one hundred and sixty acres." Today this land would be north and west of the Bainbridge Island ferry terminal in Eagle Harbor, roughly centered on location of the present day Bainbridge Island Farmers Market. See plat map below. Interestingly the document is purportedly signed by Chester A. Arthur, President of the United Sates of America! Almost certainly signed on his behalf by S. W Clark, Recorder of the General Land office, instead.
  		Plat map Bainbridge Island 1856 Original plat of the island from 1856. Sources indicate the Hoskinson's moved to homestead on the island in 1878 and were among its first settler. The Hoskinson homestead, described in the land patent above is highlighted in yellow of the map. Today this land would be north and west of the Bainbridge Island ferry terminal in Eagle Harbor, roughly centered on location of the present day Bainbridge Island Farmers Market.
  		S. F. Hoskinson buys land in Kitsap Co., WA 1881 Land patent for "lot number four and the north-east quarter of the south-east quarter of section twenty-seven in township twenty-five north of range two east of Willamette Meridian in Washington Territory containing seven-nine acres and fifty hundredths of and acre."