Clearwater Township Land Records
1857 - 1879
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
1-F. P.
Robinson, August 4
Horace Webster, August 7
Rebecca Wheelon, July 31
W. H. Fisher. August 20
2-F. P. Robinson, August 4
Artemus Stevens, July 2
Town Council Fremont City, August 8
B. H. Luce, September 2
3 Town Council Fremont City, August 26
James Crombell, July 2
H. McCrory, July 2
10-I. L. Chase, September 29
Abel Kent, September 8
Emma C. K. Stevenson, September 8
Henry Townsend. June 22
L. Loughton, August 31
11-A. T. Boyington, August 7
Charles Folsom, September 7
Solomon Thorlonder, July 12
E. H. Whitney, August 22
Albert F. Matzky, August 6
12-W. H. Fisk, August 20 |
Elias
Cowon
Horace Webster, August 7
A. T. Boyington, August 7
Samuel A. Hurd, December 5
13-Samuel A. Hurd, December 5
Nelson C. Draper, July 15
Samuel A. Hurd, December 5
Elisha Cowon, July 22
George R. Fuller, October 8
14-A. F. Matzky, October 6
E. H. Whitney, August 22
Albert Hogemon, July 20
L. Loughton, August 31
15-L. Loughton, August 31
A. W. Williams, July 25
21-George W. McCrory, July 28
26-1. H. Bates, July 25
28-T. B. Titus
33-F. Kothmon, September 24
34-M. H. Goodman, September 21
F. Kothmon, September 24
35-James A. Thurlough, September 21 |
1858
3-F. M.
Cadwell, October 13
10-N. L. Loughton, October 13
F. M. Cadwell, October 13
11-F. M. Cadwell, October 13
12-W. W. Webster, June 2
15-O. Laughton, October 26 |
22-S. N.
Nixon, November 13
24-Thomas Tollington, June 17
G. W. Canney, May 17
27-James E. Spencer, May 10
33-G. C. Marshall, October 30 |
1859
12-James
Stevenson, May 30
14-J. N. Laughton, September 21
15-O. Hyatt, June 7 |
15-J. N.
Laughton, September 21
James Lee, September 20
24-E. Grant, June 25 |
1860
2-J.
Evans, October 13
11-Heirs of R. H. Kirk, October 12
13-G. B. Bradbury, July 21
21-Cyrus Smith, October 13
23-James Maxwell, September 24 |
27-C. A.
Wiegond, February 13
James Conly
28-Louis Wiegond, October 13
C. A. Wiegond, February 13
22-Thomas Murphy, October 16. |
1861
| 32-Jennie
L. Knickerbocker, February 5 |
1862
| 26-J. P.
Bosworth, September 22 |
1863
1865
| 26-William
Johnson, March 3 |
1866
| 27-D.
Connell, December 22 |
1867
28-Joseph
Ponsford, March 13
21-John M. Mitchell, October 26 |
1868
| Herman
Niekerbocker, August 5 |
1869
| 14-James
Maxwell, September 6 |
1870
1872
11-William
Dixon, April 12
34-George Fetter, March 20 |
1873
1874
22-Isaac
Philo, March 28
26-R. J. Shannon, July 17
34-Charles Valldey, November 17 |
1875
24-A. M.
Connick, September 25
Hiram Connick, September 15 |
Nelson
Sheldon, December 27
26-R. Eccles, May 15 |
1876
23-Joseph
Johnson, October 16
Nelson Sheldon, September 11
G. W. Trofton, November 16
24-Richard Bell, June 17 |
John
Dodds, March 4
26-R. F. Anderson, August 28
32-J. N. R. Rodgers, December 20 |
1877
33-M.
Murphy, March 28
23-S. Sheldon, April 24
27-D. Connolly, April 26 |
1879
| 32-D. B.
Knickerbocker, March 31 |
Wright County |Minnesota
AHGP
Source: History of Wright
County, Minnesota, by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, Volume I,
1915
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