Fractional Township
Rockford Township Land Records 1856 - 1871
Fractional township-Rockford
Township 119, Range 24
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
1856
5-I. S.
Burnside, October 2
6-David Cook. August 8
7-David Cook, August 8
8-Amasa S. Gordon, August 8
William Sleight, September 29
9-Frederick Clark, February 4
17-William B. Burrell, August 25
William Sleight, September 29
Isaac P. Harvey, September 15
Cyrus C. Jenks, September 15
18 - Phebe Brownell, December 24
20-Cyrus C. Jenks, September 15 |
Cyrus
Redlon, July 15
Isaac P. Harvey, July 15
G. D. George, September 29
C. O. Thomas, July 16
21-Joseph Wolf, 1858 July 16
C. A. Comstock, July 19
29-George F. Ames, June 23
Joel Florida. July 23
30-James D. Young, October 20
Albert H. Taisey, October 30
31-S. H. Morse, July 15 |
1857
4-Jacob B.
Miller, February 2
John Frederick, July 15
5-Robert Godfrey, June 25
6-William Godfrey, June 25
Herman B. Cole, March 24
Gabriel T. Harrow, July 23
7- Frederick Rellon, October 21
Sally Woodard, August 31
8- Thomas Prestidge, September 14
John Meisell, June 1 |
9-Ann C.
Poolton, April 20
Casimer Geib, March 14
10-Prank Leider, August 3
18-Azenath Angel, July 8
George L. Morse, December 23
19-John Kirk, May 2
Allen G. Sexton, July 25
20- Enoch Miller, August 18
29-John M. Buot, March 27
30- Benjamin F. Bailey, April 13 |
1858
| 4-Ludwig
Roloff, January 27 |
1859
| 8-Owen
Davies, December 7 |
1860
3-Christian Wolff, October 9
Andrew Borngesser, October 8
William Volbrecht, October 9
Henry Snopeef, October 26
5-Thomas Walker, October 17 |
17-Jackson
Steward, October 24
18-Asa W. Lucas, March 1
30-John F. Powers, October 18
31-Artemus W. Dorman, October 18 |
1861
| 2-Henry
Wolff, December 19 |
1862
1864
7-Jane
Owen, December 30
9-Frederick Puckett, November 12 |
1870
| 7-William
S. Darrow, June 1 |
1871
| 5-James
Sheridan, December 11 |
Wright County |Minnesota
AHGP
Source: History of Wright
County, Minnesota, by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, Volume I,
1915
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