Maple Lake Township Land Records
1857 - 1877
Township 120, Range 26
Sections 1 to 18, 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
Trott
Smith, October 20
9-Boyd W. Purdy, October 20 |
1858
1-Henry P.
Robinson, July 6
2-John M. Carrier, July 6
Thomas Sexton, August 21
Timothy Flaningan, January 1
8-Patrick Flarity, December 14
9 - Michal Welton, December 14 |
William
Welton, December 14
10-Henry McLane, October 7
15-Charles Woodbury, May 27
John W. Phillips, July 21
17-William Elsenpeter, January 12 |
1859
4-J. E.
Lewis, February 28
A. Ormsbee, February 6
11-C. McCarty, August 6 |
13-S. L.
Fillmore, January 1
14 - J. Shatter, September 6 |
1860
3-G.
Hamilton, July 13
6-E. O'Brien, September 20
James Madigan, September 20 |
13-P.
Carr, October 9
G. Hays, October 26
14-J. Grieve, February 21 |
1861
4-G.
Hamilton, September 30
6-S. Clark, November 7
8-T. Jude, July 1 |
14-L.
Laffin, May 2
18-T. Gailey, December 18 |
1862
8-T.
Cadman, May 16
2-J. Vadner, February 17
6-P. Butler, February 3 |
1864
| 3-C. B.
Coleman, September 26 |
1865
1866
1868
2-T.
Flanningan, January 1
10-J. Harrington, January 1
J. Sullivan, June 6
12-D. Sheehan, January 1 |
D. Mullen,
January 1
18-O. Dailey, July 15
H. Hinterbur, October 6 |
1869
8-R. Jude,
February 6
12-T. Jude, January 1 |
E. Flynn,
May 18
14-J. Elsenpeter, December 7 |
1870
1-T.
Hopkins, March 9
4-D. C. McCrory, April 27 |
1871
10-M.
Murphey, October 10
23-J. Kotilineck, April 28 |
1872
16-A. W.
Hoar, December 28
17-P. Flaharty, February 7 |
1873
| 11-M.
Foran, September 30 |
1874
7-J.
Maroney, July 17
17-P. Welton, January 6 |
1875
1876
| 4-W. G.
McCrorey, February 3 |
1877
| 11 - C.
Elsenpeter, May 2 |
Wright County |Minnesota
AHGP
Source: History of Wright
County, Minnesota, by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, Volume I,
1915
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