Otsego Township Land Records
1856 - 1873
Otsego Township 121, Range 23
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
15-George
T. Vail, May 31
David McPherson, May 15
17-John McDonald, Sr., June 19
Belinda Spencer, June 19
Charles T. Snow, June 25
18-Israel Record, December 18
19-Henry Heap, June 23
20-John McDonald, Jr., October 20
Charles T. Snow, June 25
William P. Gerry, June 23
21-Dennis W. Carpenter, June 21
Caleb Chase, June 2
22-L. Carrack, July 18
John Carrack, September 5
Louis Osier, October 17
John Papa, May 26
David Corbin, October 16
Charles Le Plant, May 26
23-L. Carrack, July 18
John Carrack, September 5
Charles Le Plant, May 26
25-C. W. Kelley, December 13 |
26-Enos
Doney, July 23
Thomas Newman, December 13
C. W. Kelley, December 23
27-Redman Field, September 5
Benjamin Gray, September 5
28-A. N. Chase, July 9
Cabel Chase, June 2
29-William B. Gerry, June 23
John J. Everitt, July 5
Mark G. Chase, July 10
30-Henry Heap, June 23
John P. Shumway, July 11
31-E. W. Sweet, July 10
William Brown, October 10
John Humal, October 8
34-James Godfrey, July 23
Charles Williams, December 8
35-C. W. Kelley, December 13
Thomas Williams, December 13
Charles Williams, December 8
L. D. Babcock, July 24 |
1857
15-S. S.
Carrack
16-Luman Cooley, July 17
Alva L. Cooley, July 17
17-Joshua Welsh, March 5
18-Winthrop Davis, March 27
George A. Patten, March 24
Thomas Ham, August 5
Joel Haskell, April 7
19-Joel Haskell, April 7
Thomas Ham, August 5
Ezra Craft, May 28
S. Porter, July 23
20-Phillip Boyden, June 10
John D. Copp, June 10
21-William D. Carsley, March 6
William F. Barnard, June 4
25-Oliver H. Kelley, May 4
26-Argules Bartlett, May 4
Adam Wood, January 15
27-Argules Bartlett, May 4
Benjamin Bartlett, March 21
28-Frederick Worcester, July 16
Asa H. Jacobs, July 11 |
29-John L.
Copp, June 10
Phillip Boyden, June 10
Patrick Smullen, March 20
30-Miles G. Pratt, April 6
Moses L. Ridley, June 17
Seneca Porter, July 23
George E. Goodrich, March 28
31-Moses L. Ridley, June 17
Miles G. Pratt, April 6
George E. Goodrich, March 28
32-Patrick Smullen, March 20
Jefferson Osborn, April 13
David A. Davis
33-Asa H. Jacobs, July 11
Frederick Worcester, July 16
David A. Davis, April 13
34-George W. Carrack, September 2
John Baker, May 16
35-Adam Wood, January 15
36-Oliver II. Kelley, May 4
John K. Ayd, May 1
Nathan Hall, May 4 |
1858
| 34-Clark
Haley, February 24 |
1859
8-Dudley
P. Chase, July 8
21-Dudley P. Chase, July 8 |
1860
7-Caleb C.
Chase, November 16
15-Caleb C. Chase, November 16
William E. Corey, November 16
John A. Mallett, November 16
18-David L. Ingersoll, November 23
Samuel Adams, November 20
Luther E. Tubbs, November 23 |
19-Luther
E. Tubbs, November 23
Samuel Adams, November 20
22 John E. Mallett, November 16
29-Henry Bradley, November 23
33-Albert F. Baker, November 16
Martha Snow, November 26 |
1869
1871
| 27-Mrs.
Eliza E. Stearns, July 17 |
1873
27-William
Thorpe, February 1
3.3-Gilbert F. Smith, September 12 |
Wright County |Minnesota
AHGP
Source: History of Wright
County, Minnesota, by Franklyn Curtiss-Wedge, Volume I,
1915
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