Monticello Township Land Records
1857 - 1875
Township 122, Range 25
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
19-J. B.
Locke, June 24
30-Joseph Brooks, June 24
Margaret E. Brooks, August 7 |
33-James
E. Mealey, December 23
Amos Rich, November 9
Frederick F. Barker, July 30 |
1860
30-James
J. Parker, November 22
Randall Smith, October 22
31-Randall Smith, October 22
Isaac D. Emmons, October 20
John A. Smith, October 22
James J. Parker, October 22 |
William
Murray, November 24
32-Calvin Blanchard, November 24
William Murray, November 24
James Elliot, October 15
33-James Elliot, October 15
34 -John Rich, October 9 |
1869
| 32-William
M. Rackliff, June 4 |
1875
| 32-August
Mabias, December 14 |
Wright County |Minnesota
AHGP
Source: History of Wright
County, Minnesota, by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, Volume I,
1915
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