Monticello Township Land Records
1855 - 1874
Township 121, Range 24,
Fractional Township
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
1855
| 4
-Benjamin Bursley in 1855 |
1856
7-James C.
Beekman, August 29
Richard Allen, July 25
Abnor St. Cyr
17-Thomas O. Nevers, July 25
18 Janes C. Beckman. August 29
19-Samuel W. Fuller, June 10
Alonzo Peck, December 27 |
Henry W.
Fuller, October 7
John W. Copeland, June 10
20-Thomas O. Nevers. July 25
Samuel W. Fuller. June 10
Thomas Elsworth, August 5
Simon Fobes, June 10 |
1857
7-H. F.
Ellis, June 21
J. N. Riggs, June 19
14 Pursley, August 4
11 Crawford, January 10 |
18-C.
Davis and W. Davis, August 20
D. Rosenburg, March 10
19-E. H. Lord, March 17
20-John Crawford, January 10 |
1859
1860
| 30-C. C.
Chase, November 16 |
1868
32-C. Orth,
October 26
John Arnold, February 17 |
1871
| 28-Charles
Shallifoo, November 14 |
1874
| Mrs.
Joseph File, November 4 |
Wright County |Minnesota
AHGP
Source: History of Wright
County, Minnesota, by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, Volume I,
1915
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