Chatham Township Land Records
1857 - 1877
Township 120, Range 26
Sections 19 to 36, inclusive
The following transcriptions from the land office
records gives the original owners of all the land
pre-empted and homesteaded in Wright County. This is the
roll of honor of those who dared the rigors of a pioneer
country and started the first developments. The list is
in the main accurate, though, through carelessness of
the land office registers and their clerks, the original
entries are often misspelled, and transcriptions of more
or less illegible handwriting since that date have
distorted some of the names in various ways. But
especial efforts have been made to insure accuracy in
this printed list, and the names of thousands of old
pioneers will be recognized.
The first claims in the Congressional township
1857
| John F.
Foster, filed on the northwest quarter of
section 20, October 22 |
1858
20-J. F.
Foster, October 22
11-S. P. Lowell, October 12 |
13-Sarah
Murphy, October 21
Timothy Lowell, August 22 |
1859
24-M. S.
Calkins, January 3
19-Allen D. Libby, September 26
30-J. B. Archambault, October 26 |
1860
23-D. L.
Calkins, October 19
24-Heirs of William Blakely, October 6 |
25-M. U.
Tubbs, October 19
34-B. Ambler, November 8 |
1861
A.
Boreman, October 22
24-S. Varner, October 22
26-William Sullivan, November 5 |
1862
| 22-A.
Erath, Jr., February 7 |
1864
| 35-.J.
Armstrong, November 1 |
1865
1868
25-William
Mann, April 21
26-A. Munding, October 26
W. Rettick, December 27
28 - J. Mara, July 15 |
James
Clary, July 15
D. Murphy, December 17
S. Chamberlain, December 17
J. Moore, July 15 |
1869
20-J. E.
Elsonpeter, December 7
22-I. H. Elsonpeter, December 7 |
32-James
Nugent, December 7
33-G. Hong, August 28 |
1870
30-W. P.
Jewette, October 20
J. B. Archambault, October 20 |
34-W. W.
Washburne, October 1
Francis Berthiaume, October 3 |
1871
F. Leak,
February 1
22-L. Lappin. December 1
32-A. H. Heaton, February 27 |
J. G.
Nugent, April 11
John C. Nugent, April 11
34-H. Erath, April 11 |
1872
34-T.
Sobie, August 14
27-W. Rettesch, June 22
22-W. H. Cochrane, March 22 |
1873
1875
1876
21-John
Sullivan, February 24.
33-J. C. Nugent, May 12 |
I.
Gutzweller, September 2
36-E. F. Drake, June 27 |
1877
| 35-Joseph
Armstrong, April 27 |
Wright County |Minnesota
AHGP
Source: History of Wright
County, Minnesota, by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, Volume I,
1915
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